Hengelo (2008)
Commissioned by: Kunst en bedrijf
Location: ROC, Hengelo
Materials: Wood, glass, steel, speakers, amplifier, fan, lighting, isolation, benches, spiral, staircase, airco, doors, rubber floor, concrete
Sizes: 3 (b) x 7(l) x 3(h) meters
A new ROC (regional education center) building has been built in and around the former iron foundry of Stork Hengelo, the Netherlands. It is used by 4000 students. In the hall of the building two separate blocks of sea containers accomodate toilets. On top of each of them a work of art has been put: Flip clock and Music studio; thus the containers function as pedestals.
Music studio
By the spiral staircase you can reach the sound-proof space
on top of the sea-containers.
In the studio itself there is a supersonic sound system.
Any student can connect his mp3 player to the amplifier and listen to his favorite music in a perfect sound quality.
The studio makes it possible to get completely absorbed in the music. Next to the joy of listening to their own music, an important aspect is that students can share their favorite songs with their fellow students.
The outside of the studio is a façade of 600 different second-hand speakers. They don’t work any more but you can look at it as if it were a wall of sound.
A few round forms from the speakers are taken out and replaced by windows. In this way there is still contact with the outside world.
By heaping up the speakers with their different height-depth and width sizes the outside of the studio works as a sculpture.
