Sistema Scotland/ The Big Noise
The Big Noise is a continuation of the Sistema Scotland organisation, stemming from Venezuela, with their main emphasis on bringing the community of disadvantaged youth together with orchestral music.
Music can be created everywhere
Ezeru Skaņas is a mayor cultural event in Latvia during whitch the artists, with the help of architectural enthusiasts create floating performance spaces on which multiple concerts and dance activities happen. Balloch is in dire need of cultural revitalisation to reclaim the their landscape in a sustainable way.
Observations in Balloch/ local inspirations
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Balloch is a town defined by water. The Loch Lomond and the River Leven frame the people's and visitors paths and the water itself is filled with life.
The life on the water is also explored in Latvian culture, as we host a myriad of cultural events in water, and this was a cornerstone of the retreat.
Creating musical wonders and secure spaces​
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Water provides privacy and security, as well as create a peculiar acoustic experience for the children.
Environmental analysis and principles of building​
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The retreat creates seamless and imperceivable solutions to the challenges of the cold and rainy conditions in Balloch through the use of sustainable materials, heat pump, biomass boiler, heat recovery system and rainwater collecting. The integration of these systems creates an off-grid, Passivhaus standard retreat on an island that plays with heavy and light/ old and new.
Structural design of the performance hall
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The performance hall in Balloch creates seamless and imperceivable solutions to the challenges of the cold and rainy conditions in Balloch through the use of sustainable materials, heat pump, biomass boiler, heat recovery system and rainwater collecting. The integration of these systems creates an off-grid, Passivhaus standard retreat on an island that plays with heavy and light/ old and new.