Planning permission for the Toggenburg Sound House
The municipality of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann in the canton of St. Gallen is starting the public planning process for the Klanghaus design plan and the associated sub-zone plan. This is intended to create the legal conditions for the project.
For over ten years, the Klangwelt Toggenburg association has been conveying a unique sound culture between Säntis and Churfirsten - in the form of sound courses, a sound trail, a sound festival and a sound forge. The Klanghaus is intended to provide opportunities to further expand these offerings and develop new products.
The house designed by Meili, Peter Architekten, a Y-shaped, harmoniously structured timber structure, is intended to be "optimally integrated into nature" and thus function as a sound box itself. Its acoustics can be altered thanks to mobile walls.
The building will house four music rooms, a parlor with kitchen and various technical rooms as well as two outdoor stages for musical experiments. In particular, the traditional music of Toggenburg and its further developments, but also other forms of musical expression should be able to unfold in it.
The rehearsal and work rooms of the Klanghaus Toggenburg will be open to music and singing groups, choirs and orchestras - both national and international, professional groups and committed amateurs. In this way, Klanghaus Toggenburg will also contribute to the development of Toggenburg as a tourist destination.
