Concert Hall

What does Pompeii have to do with Stuttgart? Every building, every room speaks its own language. Again and again, the architect wonders how he can influence the meaning and atmosphere of a room with the help of individually composed colors. A concert hall in Germany in black, red, and gold was not intended as a joke by the British architect Sir James Frazer Stirling. In fact, Stirling had a different context in mind; he referred to the Pompeian color palette. Through this color scheme, joy and festivity should characterize the concert hall, which can accommodate 418 visitors. While all classrooms and overflow rooms were kept in black and white, this particular room, located in the central architectural element of the building, the base of the tower, was meant to have a special color scheme. Stirling saw this most clearly realized in the color concepts of the ancient city of Pompeii.