Since its opening at the beginning of October, the Isarphilharmonie has been the talk of the town. It was quietly built to provide a replacement home for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the adult education center and the city library during the renovation of the Gasteig, which will take years.

In 2018, the competition for the new concert hall on the factory premises was decided. This project is still in the pipeline. Now there is the new Isarphilharmonie in Sendling with such an excellent sound that a new hall seems unnecessary. Here too, the world-famous acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, who is responsible for the sound quality of almost all new concert halls worldwide, was brought on board. The architects at gmp (design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Christian Hellmund) call what has been achieved here "a violin in a violin case" based on the house-within-a-house principle. The outer "box", the outer shell, consists of a simple steel construction into whose corner elements single-shell, prefabricated wooden wall elements are suspended. It is combined with the requirements of an acoustically sophisticated concert hall, which is built using modular timber construction, like a plug-in system of solid wood elements. This design enabled a short construction time - and will make it easy to dismantle and rebuild in the future. Only one and a half years were required to achieve this feat and the budget of 40 million euros was also adhered to.

The new building adjoins the listed former transformer hall E with its glass roof and three blue-painted surrounding tiers, which has been converted into a foyer. In front of the hall, a central square opens up towards the water. Hall E has several functions: It is the foyer, the ticket office, the checkroom and the café for concertgoers. Other institutions of the old Gasteig have also moved here - the city library, the adult education center and the University of Music and Theater are housed in three other modular buildings. The citizens were allowed to vote and agreed on the name HP8 for the quarter, derived from the address Hans-Preißinger-Straße 8.

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(Published in CUBE Munich 04|21)