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    The document discusses plans to construct a new Belfast Lutherie (stringed instrument making school) in Northern Ireland. The school would provide dedicated space for manufacturing, exhibiting, and performing stringed instruments made by students. It would explore architectural approaches for rooms dedicated to wood selection/curing, assembly, finishing, teaching music theory/acoustics, and instrument performance. The total proposed built area would be 1,500-2,000 square meters. Student projects on the school's design would be compiled to help fund Sam Irwin's proposed "Croi na Coille" Luthier School in Northern Ireland.

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    The document discusses plans to construct a new Belfast Lutherie (stringed instrument making school) in Northern Ireland. The school would provide dedicated space for manufacturing, exhibiting, and performing stringed instruments made by students. It would explore architectural approaches for rooms dedicated to wood selection/curing, assembly, finishing, teaching music theory/acoustics, and instrument performance. The total proposed built area would be 1,500-2,000 square meters. Student projects on the school's design would be compiled to help fund Sam Irwin's proposed "Croi na Coille" Luthier School in Northern Ireland.

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    ARC3012

    semester 2

    bel fast luth eri e

    Cremona is a town in northern Italy which although smaller than Ballycastle, has a distinguished reputation as a centre of musical instrument manufacture. The violins made by Stradivari and Guarneri are considered the pinnacle of stringed instrument making and today, over forty world class violin makers remain resident in the town. Over the past thirty years, a number of guitar makers from Northern Ireland have progressed from bedroom start-ups to companies of world reknown. Avalon Guitars, Sam Irwin, Dermot McIlroy and most famously George Lowden all have workshops in the province, selling their specially commissioned handcrafted instruments throughout the world. For the last few years, Belfast Metropolitan College has ran a course in stringed instrument making, drawing its students from all backgrounds and ages keen to learn how to make guitars, mandolins, harps and lyres. The course is cuurently taught in a cramped and inadequate joinery workshop on the Tower Street Campus. It is proposed to construct a new Belfast Lutherie which will form a home for the teaching of stringed instrument making in Northern Ireland. Its objective will be to promote the instrument making industry, provide a resource of knowledge and create dedicated space for manufacture, exhibition and performance of the instruments made. The spaces made should explore the architectural potential of the manufacturing sequence from wood selection and curing to assembly and finishing. Projects should develop tectonic ideas about the construction of rooms for making. Supporting spaces for teaching of musical theory and acoustical physics or performance should draw on the particular nature of the programme in the search for an atmosphere. Programme to include (but not limited to): Wood and materials storage yard Kiln Machine Shop Soundbox Assembly Workshop Multi-media Library Adminstrative offices Meeting room Reception Area Classrooms Performance Chamber Instrument exhibition area Total built area 1500 2000m2 The final projects will be compiled into a booklet in the hope that the students research will assist the funding of Sam Irwins proposed Croi na Coille Luthier School in Northern Ireland

    Brief compiled with the assistance of Sam Irwin, of Belfast Metropolitan College Image: Workshop at Belfast Metropolitan College

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