Counterintuitive Approaches

A single, very thick brick bearing wall was planned for the enclosure of this 500-seat music and
banquet space, but the constricted site left little room for air and electrical shafts to serve the venue.

The unlikely approach of creating voids in the walls for air and wiring yielded invisible routes for
these services while narrowing the room acoustically (a very good thing) and enhancing performance
of both structure and acoustic isolation. The detailing is beautiful, too.

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