Swiss Sound Box Peter Zumthor

The Swiss Sound Box, a temporary space designed by Peter Zumthor for the World Expo in Hannover Germany in 2000, is an experiment in the complex emotional spaces that we as architects can create using simple elements. Zumthor's design is a notice to the rest of the architectural world, an understanding that architecture serves the world, and the people within that world, and so it should be sympathetic to those forces. That we as a discipline should be promoting a more careful approach to design, one which does not simply live with the constraints provided to us and the elements around us, but responds to and utilizes those elements to create resonant connections between the inhabitant, the architecture, and the world around it.

[@iceblueaquamarina7389]

Thank you for this upload!!! The Swiss Pavilion was one of our favorites at the EXPO 2000. It was like a spacious maze with lots of fresh air and the smell of wood. You could hear musicians playing on the saxophone and accordion, walking around, sounds coming closer and getting distant again. Every hour the music stopped and the staff stood still no matter what they did at that time. Probably a hint to the precision of Swiss watches. We had hot cocoa with chopped Toblerone pieces in it and it was soooo good. After 23 years I can remember only a few pavilions but the Swiss one very intensely.
The Austrian pavilion had a great concept, too. First you had to climb soft stairs and then you came into a spacious pavilion with dozens of huge leather bags where the tired visitors could take a rest or even a nap. Their slogan was something like “Relax in Austria”.

[@khawarkhurshidahmedmalik9445]

WOW...OWE!!! I was in dazzled rapture through out the video, kind of nodding to the 'unheard melodies'. The sheer conceptual brilliance and simplicity of the idea, complexity of its execution and the delight___delirium actually___ that its breathtaking final form offers to senses, and imagination.
Mies once said "Architecture is a language. If you have the vocabulary and grammar for it, you can create prose with it. If you are good, may be good prose. If great, poetry". Peter has invented a new vocabulary here, placed it in apparent disassemble and still has been able to create great poetry.
The master needs to upload on the internet whatever he has about the concept still in his possession and may I request everyone from the general public that might have a video of the Swiss Pavilion to upload their live experiences captured on camera.

[@pierrecaron8731]

I visited this pavilion at expo 2000, it was beautiful.

[@simple.architecture]

Great work of wooden structure. Very nicely presented.

[@harperwelch5147]

Wonderful!

[@ra777al1]

Marvelous whole engineering.

[@gap1196]

Subtitle, Please..

[@sherrysyed]

Wow

[@aashijain8442]

I want to know everything bout the structure in detail .....how can I do that ? Internet has vry limited info

[@Laser43009]

On the series of book from Peter Zumthor 1987 - 2013, there are the structure details if I remember well.