Casa da Música is the first building built in Portugal dedicated exclusively to public presentations of different types of music, as well as spaces for rehearsing orchestras and other resident and visiting groups.
Its construction is linked to the candidacy of Porto as European Capital of Culture in 1997, and its construction was announced in 1998. The project tender process was too short, which reduced the participation of 7 to 3 architects. In July 1999, Rem Koolhaas' project was accepted, and in December the project was delivered. In April 2005 the inaugural concert takes place.
This building does not leave anyone indifferent, all the solutions used here are out of the ordinary, and its architecture is already an experience in itself, being an adventure for our senses to walk through the various interior spaces, and also observe them from the outside. I consider your visit mandatory.
Aerial view above the Concert Hall Casa da Musica at Porto, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Kollhaas. From this point we see the Rotunda da Boavista, with the monument memorial of the victims during the French invasions of Napoleon in Porto 1809.
Located at the top of the building designed by Rem Koolhaas, with an unexpected terrace over the gardens of Boavista and an amazing view over the city of Porto, the Casa da Música restaurant comprises different spaces and types of cuisine. Inside,...
Located above Room 2, the VIP Terrace was designed as a technical area that visitors would not have access to. During the construction phase, Rem Koolhaas ended up, however, deciding to include this space in the public route of the House, as an in...
Outside space with access to the Restaurant, with a very special geometry, a corridor in perspective, this terrace causes emotion to those who visit it, for its view (over the roundabout) for its shape, covering and lighting. I was told that the b...
THE PROGRAM consists of two auditoriums seating 1.250 and 350 people respectively, rehearsal rooms and recording studios, piercing the solid is introduced and subtracting the excess mass, permeating the manipulable character building inherent in a...
Small auditorium. Room 2 is another of the main attractions of Casa da Música due to the originality of its design, as a multipurpose space adaptable to the most varied purposes. To characterize it in one word, elasticity would probably be the rig...
The Cyber Space is the meeting point between music, computers and visual arts at Casa da Música. An area dedicated to the presentation / installation of multimedia and research / composition projects in the field of music and new technologies, the...
The Cyber Space is the meeting point between music, computers and visual arts at Casa da Música. An area dedicated to the presentation / installation of multimedia and research / composition projects in the field of music and new technologies, the...
THE PROGRAM consists of two auditoriums seating 1.250 and 350 people respectively, rehearsal rooms and recording studios, piercing the solid is introduced and subtracting the excess mass, permeating the manipulable character building inherent in a...
Reem Koollhaas "recycled" the diagram of a rejected project called Y2K house and enlarged it, using a prismatic void that originally intended to be a living room to accommodate the large auditorium.
As the name implies, the VIP Room was created to be a kind of business card for Casa da Música, a distinct and particularly formal space for the institution. However, it has been used mainly for events such as small press conferences, receptions, ...
The name of the Renaissance Room comes from the tiles that cover it, which show a pattern created by two parallelograms and a square, with the colors blue, green and white. The inspiration came, on the one hand, from the city's façades, which in t...
The name of the Renaissance Room comes from the tiles that cover it, which show a pattern created by two parallelograms and a square, with the colors blue, green and white. The inspiration came, on the one hand, from the city's façades, which in t...
Created in parallel to the Orange Room, the Purple Room similarly fulfills the purpose of supporting the Educational Service's programming, in particular the project A Música Takes Care of Me, which welcomes children from 3 to 10 years old and inv...
