Music Archive

The music archive is a project intended to collect LP albums. It is a three story building located downtown Toronto in an empty lot. Linearity, lighting and contextual dialog are important aspects of the design of the building.

The parti is a V-shaped staircase, surrounded by bookshelves, meant to emphasise the height of the building, as shown in the emblematic perspective. The bookshelves are three-story tall vertical walls filled with LP albums. On the left side of the staircase, human sized openings are perforating the gridded shelving, leading to small phonic isolated rooms intended for private listening. On the right side of the staircase there is a gramophone gallery on the first floor, a learning/quiet room on the second floor and office space/storage on the third.