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© mauro davoli The new building, which will be built up from nothing, will be given an organic and perfect form by using golden proportions suitable for improving the acoustics, in order to avoid it from being too rigid, which would not make it fit in the environment created by the light and the patterns created by the wind.

© mauro davoli Its walls should enhance the light, its smell should combine with the smell of stone, earth, grass and wet leaves.

© archos archive “From the sky, it looks like a big olive still attached to a leaf. I hadn’t thought of such a result, although I had always been concerned not to harm the olive grove in which the building stands. I was there yesterday too, because I wanted to be sure the building was in the right position with respect to the views, the height of the pines, and the correct structural attitude on the current ground level, which should not be changed at all. The rain was pouring down and I attended a different concert. The orchestra didn't care about me when I got in the way among the musicians.”

© mauro davoli The architecture of the concert hall listens and participates without disturbing; it is part of the orchestra and plays its role as a new musical instrument which improves the acoustics of the place.

© mauro davoli The curved iron plate next to the theatre on the sunset side, reminiscent of those used by Richard Serra, leads visitors inside and gradually takes them away from the outside sights, sounds and smells. It marks the limits of the olive grove that stretches to the large pines and it supports the slender iron plate structure, which, like a harp, lets visitors in to the concert.

© mauro davoli As always, the building was shaped according to its rational and poetic function, the task of letting instruments play, and the desire to convey emotions. Aesthetic values are not perceived as added, they are part of the building and radiate from it. The external shape of the building, the perfect egg, emerges from the internal music room built in the golden section and from the sound that travels freely within the hall to envelope the audience and the orchestra.

© mauro davoli

© mauro davoli

© mauro davoli

© mauro davoli

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