RESONATING SPACES:
The Architecture of Storytelling Soundscapes
“Having your own studio provides creative freedom to bring in professionals from outside the traditional areas of Landscape Architecture, enabling us to develop new ideas that would be difficult to do anywhere else.”
Introduction
Studio Wild 15’s philosophy focuses on creating highly unique, original ideas and solutions for each project. Enhancing the guest experience is the ultimate goal of many clients’ decisions to commission master planning and landscape architecture services. It has always made sense that unique collaborations are at the heart of originality and new thinking.
One of these areas is music and composition. Using audio to create elaborate soundscapes has the ability to transform traditional hotel environments. Through the sensory intersection of architecture and music we look to enhance the visitor’s interaction with a location, creating a deeper, more memorable emotional connection to a space.
Creating original soundscapes bespoke to the natural environment and to specific designs is no easy feat, but this is a challenge that Studio Wild 15 collaborator Neil Brand, a musician, composer and host of the popular BBC podcast “All About the Music” has taken on with great enthusiasm. In a conversation with studio founder John Goldwyn, Neil discusses how he approached the brief, combining the need to integrate the clients’ guest experience mission*, with the unique natural environment, as well as the history and mythology before him.
We start with Neil explaining the impetus for the first collaborative project, a large resort on the island of Rhodes….
Many thanks to Neil for taking the time to speak with John.
*one small note of clarification, the official strapline for Mitsis is “Create your own story”
