Adept creates timber-lined music rooms that each suit different instruments

Adept   was asked to refurbish the exhibition spaces of The Danish Music Museum,   adding four practice   rooms specifically tailored to different instrument groups, as well new display cases for a   collection of historic instruments   dating from the Bronze Age to the present day. Wooden blocks form a performance platform at the back of the orchestral space. «Everything, from the transparency of the exhibition design to the play of colours, patterns and rhythm in the acoustic walls of the sonorous museum, is a modern-day interpretation of architectural elements and details from Vilhelm Lauritzen’s buildings,» said the architects. A window into each of the rooms allow visitors to watch and listen in on performances and workshops. Slim strips of timber run from ceiling to floor in the   percussion room and are arranged to give the space soft rounded edges. They feature wooden panelling perforated in triangular patterns, and are also used as seating in a lecture room. The cabinets are interspersed with chunks of text, graphic illustrations and listening stations that give an interactive element to the displays. «The design alternates between glass showcases making the instruments seemingly float in the air and open tableaus showing larger instruments,» said the team. Related story: Paris music school by Basalt Architecture features copper walls and cantilevered studios The building was sold to the museum in 2001 and is now also home to the   Royal Danish Academy of Music   –   a concert hall, library   and archives. The four   «interactive classrooms», where school groups can handle the instruments and test out their sound spectrum, are lined with different types   of wooden panel. Perforated and   panelled   woodwork line four acoustic   rooms designed   by architecture   studio Adept for a   museum   in a former broadcasting house in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). Photography is by Laura Stamer and Kaare Viemose. The museum is located   in the listed Radio House building, a Functionalist block designed by Danish architect Vilhelm Lauritzen in 1945 as the headquarters for Danish broadcaster DR. The rooms – designed for strings, brass, percussion and mixed instruments – each have unique acoustics and pared-back aesthetics.