Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Door, Brick, Windows, Glass, FacadeClimax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Stairs, HandrailClimax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Sofa, Table, ChairClimax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Image 5 of 31Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - More Images+ 26

  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  304
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
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  • Architect In Charge: Feng Lin
  • Design Team: Peihan Wang, Xiaosheng, Yuying Bi, Han Wang, Manyao Lun
  • Client: Climax Music Studio
  • Structure Consultant: Wei Zhang
  • Hvac Consultant: Shuibin Li
  • Mep Consultant: Zhiyong He
  • Façade Consultant: Jichao Sun
  • Contractor: Wenlong Jiang and his construction team
  • City: Beijing
  • Country: China
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Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Door, Brick, Windows, Glass, Facade
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Text description provided by the architects. Climax Music Studio is a film music studio project designed by Endless Space Architects. The biggest feature of this project is to design a dynamic space in a regular pattern. The design focused on how to make space feels bigger in a narrow and long site.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Glass, Facade, Windows, Handrail
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The idea that the designer wants to convey is that no matter how strong the functionality is, even if it seems to be a closed and flexed space, it's still possible to make space flow by design.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Stairs, Handrail
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The site of Climax Music Studio is 7.2 meters wide and 20 meters deep. The specific functional requirements of Studio include recording room, main and secondary control rooms, 4 arranger rooms, business meeting plus viewing rooms, storage, music producer ‘s living room, and rehearsal area.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Chair, Handrail, Windows
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Strategy
Because of many functional rooms, the site will occupy a large part of the area by the walkway. The design strategy here is to embed a partially enlarged spatial sequence. The aisles at different levels are superimposed to expand it into an internal public space; enlarged spaces are set at both ends of the aisle, taking advantage of the difference in people's perception time to alleviate the cramped feeling brought by narrow spaces.

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Sectional perspective
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Sectional perspective

The studio must increase the area by mezzanine to accommodate the many functional spaces required. Uses the beam and socket space as much as possible. The steel beams of the original building are partially hidden. The exposed part of the steel beams strengthens the rhythm of the space, and the structure is transformed into an expression of beauty. Digging down ensures that the core functional space on the first floor has sufficient clear height.

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Endless Space Architects has always emphasized that the lightest and thinnest building components can effectively solve the functional problems. The mezzanine staircase is thin and light, giving more space to the sitting area. Common recording studio walls are very heavy. By studying materials and details, the designer uses much thinner walls to meet acoustic requirements, leaving users with valuable space width.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Sofa, Table, Chair
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New prototype
The client hoped that the core function can achieve independent control of the recording room in both control rooms. The designer created a new recording space prototype, in which the recording room is in the middle and used as the axis, one control room in series left and right. In this way, the recording room becomes a space medium. Thus, the two control rooms can be opposite each other, and space continues. Conventional recording studios only have observation windows on one side of the recording room or no observation windows at all. In this regard, it is strongly different from conventional studio types.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Table, Chair
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The second floor faces south with a short depth and good sunlight. The musicians' living, simple rehearsal and rest spaces are located on the second floor. All these functional spaces are integrated to make the second floor open as a whole.

Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS - Windows
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Project location

Address:B08 Shangyi Wenchuangyuan, Chaoyang Bei Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

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Cite: "Climax Music Studio / ENDLESS SPACE ARCHITECTS" 12 Oct 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/939022/climax-music-studio-endless-space-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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