The character of Miralles & Tagliabue’s design is set by the architects’ determination to embed The Hamburg Music School’s scheme within its existing buildings of the surrounding and tries to recognize the existing context. By connecting landscape and architecture and filling the resulting structure with color and light, the architects sought to express the energy and youth of the children and music who will use the school.

The site’s existing trees define the framework of the project, literally gets its character by intertwining with the architecture and continuing this landscape within the building itself, reading powerfully against the transparent facades of the building. These fragments of trees also shape the character of the school’s interior landscapes, dominating the views out and shaping details of the physical fabric. For example, the street elevation, for example, being supported on round pillars and beams designed to resemble arboreal fragments, standing as a metaphor for the trees outside of this building.

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