Renovation and transformation of parts of Victor Horta’s Palais des Beaux Arts – dating from the 1920s and landmarked – to accommodate multimedia events in the basement – Salle Terarken – as well as the Klara music festival in the foyer – Hall Horta.
Due to the installation of discreetly integrated acoustic ceiling banners and absorbing wall panels, the foyer was transformed into a 500-seat chamber music hall for the Klara Music Festival.
Newly transformed room for multimedia projects and exhibitions for up to 775 seated people. Sliding acoustic partitions
allow subdivision into two or three smaller rooms with 250 seats each.
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Location Brussels, Belgium. Historic landmark building.
Project Cost Non available.
Time Frame Design 2002-2005.
Owner Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bozar).
Architect(s) Georges Baines (Multimedia rooms Terarken); Barbara Van der Wee (Master plan and Henri LeBœuf Hall doors); Christian Kieckens (Hall Horta installation), Brussels.
Seat Count Salle Terarken: 750 seats (three 250-seat rooms), total area 1 000 m². Hall Horta: 500 seats, total area 500 m². Henri LeBœuf Hall: 2100 seats.
Uses Chamber music and amplified music, exhibitions, projections, performances, conferences, multimedia.
Services Acoustic consulting services for the new Multimedia rooms Terarken (separated with acoustical sliding doors); concept and supervision of acoustical installations in Hall Horta for the Klara music festival; restoration and acoustical improvements of the Henri LeBœuf Hall doors; participation in the Bozar master plan elaboration.
Team Eckhard Kahle, Project Manager, Nathalie Faillet, Kahle Acoustics.
