Bincks' Music Factory

A music incubator for subcultures

Master thesis (2022)

Authors

P.J. van Dijk Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

P.A.M. Kuitenbrouwer Public Building and Housing Design (mentor)
G. Koskamp Design of Constrution - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
S. Lee Public Building and Housing Design (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

23-06-2022

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The project ‘Bincks’ Music Factory’ is part of the graduation studio Public Building, a studio in which Multiplicity is researched as a characteristic of a Music Marvel.

The ‘new’ Music Marvel as I designed it has the Binckhorst location in The Hague as its given parameter. This former industrial area has been absorbed by the city in response to the transformations of economic, cultural and socio-political dynamics, and will be transformed into an urban living and working area in the future.

The question that immediately came up was how can a music marvel be embedded in Binckhorst and what are the characteristics of my music marvel? Nowadays, music is tangible for everyone and can no longer be ignored in our lives. However, today’s music buildings cannot keep pace with the demanding condition, the multiplicity, and the ever-changing character. Architecture for music has largely been transformed into an inanimate spatial form, characterised by its pursuit of timelessness and limited to the perception of music. The architectural design of music spaces in our time is guided and often controlled, by the science of acoustics. The understanding of perception is often incomplete. The spatial requirements and design parameters of a Music Marvel must be questioned in order to meet the demanded versatility of today’s music buildings.

To fulfil this demand for multiplicity, my Music Marvel is focused on facilitating a variety of music genres. Based on a personal fascination, I focus on various subcultures as a target group with the idea of offering them a place for interactions and incubation - a cultural factory where diverse components or subcultures come together to form a larger whole and refute the sense of social hierarchy. An autonomous place to stimulate (local) subcultures and thus profile its own place.