Haworth Tompkins were commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to design a new rehearsal /concert studio, rehearsal rooms and ancillary spaces as part of a joint project with the Gooderham family, who own the rest of the site, to rescue the remaining derelict buildings and complete the rebirth of the Maltings. Performance and rehearsal spaces Suffolk |
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Snape Maltings was built on the Suffolk coast in the mid-nineteenth century. The buildings were falling into disuse by the time Benjamin Britten commissioned Derek Sugden to convert the largest kiln as a concert venue in 1969. Since then the Aldeburgh Festival has gone from strength to strength. |  |
Our strategy has focused on the need to maintain a simple, harmonious relationship between the straightforwardly handsome industrial architecture and the powerful landscape of the coastal marshes. For Aldeburgh Music, this has meant carefully finding new spaces in a complex of old buildings, using a palette of materials appropriate both to the original architecture and the surrounding landscape. |  |
The new building will provide a 350-seater flexible rehearsal and performance studio with state-of-the art acoustics and equipment, the smaller 'kiln studio', and badly needed office and rehearsal rooms. |  |
Future development phases will improve the Aldeburgh Music campus with an artist's studio within the ruin of the Maltings dovecote, a new artists' cafŽ, landscaping improvements, and remodelling of the maIn foyer. The result will be a sequence of atmospheric spaces which both respond to the mood of Snape and equip the Maltings as Europe's leading music campus. |  |
SNAPE MALTINGS |
| 19-20 Great Sutton Street London EC1V 0DR T (44) 020 7250 3225 F (44) 020 7250 3226 |
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