ENGLISH HOME PAGE CONTACT DOWNLOADS SUPPORT COMPANIES SERVICES PROJECTS CAREER NEWS Barenboim-Said Academy, Berlin Builder and client: Barenboim-Said Academy Architect: Gehry Partners LLP, HG Merz Architects and Museum Designer (LP 1-4), rw + Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin (LP 5-9) Period of performance: 2012 to 2017 Services: Planning and property monitoring, sanitary technology, heating technology, ventilation technology, refrigeration technology, cooling ceilings, fire extinguishing technology, sprinkler technology, electrical engineering, communications technology, building management technology, measurement and control technology, building automation, conveyor technology, lighting technology, stage technology TGA costs net €: 6,200,000.00 In autumn 2016, the Barenboim-Said Academy opened in the southern part of the former warehouse building of the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin. Since then, young musicians from the conflict region in the Middle East have been studying in the representative building with a neoclassical facade. Frank Gehry's extraordinary music academy with academy rooms and a concert hall (Pierre Boulez Saal) focuses on three programmatic priorities: music education, humanities with a curriculum for music and world perception and international relations and projects - just like the initiators Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said had wished to continue their "West-Eastern Divan Orchestra". The guiding principle of "education through music" lies in all three institutions - the Barenboim-Said Academy, the Pierre Boulez Saal and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The heart of the building is the Pierre Boulez Hall, which appears to float in the space with a tier in the form of a double curved ellipse, but allows the most diverse combination options with regard to the number of stage seats, the area of the stage and the placement of the artists. ZWP Ingenieur-AG is the overall TGA planner responsible for the planning and implementation of the technical building equipment. This also included the implementation of the elaborate stage technology in the hall: the seating can be pulled out horizontally in drawers or stowed under the entrance level via a telescopic grandstand. The room can be flexibly adapted to the use and provide up to 682 seats. As part of the preliminary planning, various heating systems were also examined in terms of their investment costs and primary energy requirements in a variant comparison. The provision of heating from the district heating network Berlin-Mitte achieved the best rating. The heating power required for the building is 276 kW. 70% of the cooling for the ventilation systems is generated by evaporative cooling integrated in the systems and only 30% by integrated compression chillers. For the circulating air cooler in the technical rooms, the stage technology and in the server room, cooling is generated with a power-regulated multi-split system that works directly with refrigerant. Displacement air outlets in the floor of the hall ensure the supply of air, while exhaust air is captured in the ceiling area. © Photos: Till Schuster Architekturfotografie | © Model photos and graphics: Gehry Partners LLP Further data / useful information Read more: www.daniel-barenboim-stiftung.org Previous project next project Back to overview BRANCHES Dresden Berlin Bochum | Construction management Hamburg Cologne Innovation | Cologne Munich Stuttgart Wiesbaden NEWSLETTER Subscribe now STAY IN CONTACT imprint Data protection This website does not use cookies.