A 180-seat recital room tuned like a courtyard: hard stone, soft light.
- year
- 2024
- area
- 9,600 SF
- program
- Recital hall and music school
A private music school outgrew its 1970s hall and wanted the new one to feel like playing outdoors in the Gables, without the weather.
A corner lot on a canopy street, where the city's coral-rock walls set the material key the building picks up.
Florida keystone · White oak · Lime plaster · Deep concrete reveals
The hall is a single keystone-lined room lifted a half level over the lobby; rehearsal rooms wrap it like a cloister. Every window sits in a reveal deep enough that the sun never lands on glass between March and October.
The acoustician asked for diffusion; the shell answers with the fossil texture of the keystone itself, shells and coral section-cut by the saw.
Set to solar time.