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Following its success in a competition (2018), ATP Innsbruck has designed a new music center for the village of Finkenberg in the heart of the mountainous region of the Upper Zillertal. The new pavilion offers enough space for concerts and religious or civic ceremonies as well as containing rehearsal and social spaces for the local brass band.

The concept embraces both local construction traditions and modern design. Consciously rejecting “alien” forms and materials, it adopts the traditional, regionally rooted method of building in timber on a stone base – interpreted in a contemporary manner. The project fulfills the requirement to establish a respectful relationship with the church porch while incorporating a historically protected wall.

In a reference to the classic music pavilion, the building opens up towards the entrance to the church, the historic cemetery and the village in the form of a trapezium. On the street, the stone base – upon which the timber structure with its precisely folded roof are positioned – becomes an external wall.

The glazing in the base creates a bright, attractive entrance that the musicians use to enter the generous base level, whose rehearsal and social spaces have nothing in common with the dusty basement atmosphere often found in rehearsal rooms.
The connection with the historic graveyard has also been unconventionally solved: A new square, which invites the villagers to linger awhile, acts as a hub between the music pavilion, the village street and the cemetery. The former solid stone wall has been replaced by an open stair with steps that are wide enough to sit on and which acts as an important, defining element in the village’s network of paths.

It should not be long before rousing marches are being heard from the pavilion, allowing the people of the Zillertal to continue and further deepen their love of their own music.