ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to understand how the design proposals interpreted Arvo Part's musical ideas to imagine potential architectural experience of silence and stillness. It examines two categories of the entries. One category is that of proposals based on a mathematical, algorithmic, transposition of Part’s compositions. The second category is of proposals which sought to translate Part’s music taking into consideration both its mathematical structure and its embodied qualities and spiritual metaphors. The chapter focuses on an earlier translation, in which Part's musical ideas are transposed into the proposals of both the categories identified, through a combination of drawings, renders and physical models. It suggests a critical revisiting of established approaches to acoustics with their technical and formalistic relations between sound/music and buildings, emphasizing instead the phenomenal qualities of architectural experience and representation.
