Korundi House Of Culture, Rovaniemi

Korundi House of Culture is located in the Centre of Rovaniemi, Lapland Finland. Korundi is easy to find as it is situated in the massive former post bus depot, which was built of red brick in 1933. This iconic building is one of the few historical buildings that has survived the Second World War in Rovaniemi. The concert hall was conceptualized as a minimalist “music box” – the relative low number of seats (340) enabled the entirely rectangular shape, the acoustic properties of which have been fine-tuned with wall and ceiling materials and textures as well as glass sound reflection sheets. The pivotal goal when designing the interior of the concert hall was to create “visual acoustics”. The warm-toned space divided by panels and battens is reminiscent of the interior of an aged string instrument.