B-flat is a competition winning underground vineyard concerthall for central Sarajevo
Sarajevo National Concert Hall Competition is UFO Architecture’s proposal for a new national concert hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Developed for the 1999 international competition, the project combines a 1,500-seat vineyard concert hall with a 500-seat chamber music hall and extends the public surface of the city into a continuous architectural landscape.
The proposal is conceived as both a concert hall and a civic terrain. Rather than treating the building as an isolated cultural object, the project folds the surrounding park-scape into and beneath the ground, creating a public surface that wraps the foyers, auditoriums and service areas while forming an accessible landscape above.
Three spiralling access routes draw visitors from different points in the city and descend through the building towards the main auditorium tiers. The bifurcated landscape creates entrances, daylight openings and spatial transitions between city, park, foyer and performance spaces.
The project explores the relationship between cultural infrastructure, acoustic enclosure and public urban space, developing the concert hall as a folded civic landscape for music, gathering and movement.
| Project Location | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Project Type | Concert hall, cultural building, public landscape, civic infrastructure |
| Project Description | International competition proposal for a new national concert hall combining a 1,500-seat vineyard concert hall, 500-seat chamber music hall and folded public landscape. |
| Architect | UFO Architecture |
| Consultants | Structure: Hanif Kara, Adam Kara Taylor Engineers (AKT); Environment: Klaus Bode, BDSP; Traffic: Halcrow & Fox; Acoustic: Arup SoundLab, Seb Joun |
| Competition | Sarajevo National Concert Hall international competition |
| Project Status | Competition entry |
| Project Duration | 1999 |
| Programme | 1,500-seat vineyard concert hall, 500-seat chamber music hall, public foyers, access routes, service areas and public landscape |
| Design Focus | Folded public landscape, vineyard concert hall, chamber music hall, civic ground, spiralling access routes, daylight, foyer landscape, cultural urbanism |
