The specific culture found in the area is choir singing, as the Vienna choir boys are using the dormitory building on the site for rehearsal during their summer camps and the Hubertus church is being used by another local choir. The hill between the 2 cultural institutions, which is the natural habitat of oak, beech, spruce tree has a specific terraced topography. The chosen terrace for the project has specific acoustic qualities which are beneficial for outdoor singing. A group of six young spruce trees on the natural terrace are the specific flora in the broad-leaf forest on the hill. The proposed cultural intervention is a space formed from trees, designed for experimental choir rehearsals and performance.

The project is a hybrid between a cultural and ecological intervention that aims to preserve nature from cutting being cut down through the sacredness that choir singing brings as well as give an alternative to the users of singing in the nature during pandemics. As the project is developing long-term the performers will build relationship and memory to it as it will be growing with them getting older and older. It becames a story that could unite different generations of choir singers. The distances between the newly planted trees is 2 meters so that the choir can perform in the range of the state requirements. Similar strategy is followed in the maintanence of the tree crowns so that the space underneath is high enough to fit a grown person.

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Sound reflection

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