Pür Residential Recording Studio

A residential recording studio on the Aegean island of Cunda that embodies a simple but urgent belief: music brings us together; it celebrates diversity, yet enables oneness, a model we need to benchmark more in the world. Pur is infrastructure for connection – a place where the act of making music becomes inseparable from the act of building community across cultures and contexts.

Pur is an experiment in dual alignment: respecting and blending in with the local, while enabling a new destination with state-of-the-art technology. The building is conceived as a simple, two-story masonry and timber structure that respects Cunda’s architectural heritage, while refining its tectonics for contemporary use. Inside, the experience shifts. The interiors unfold as a sequence of soundscapes – varied heights, widths, depths, and carefully calibrated surfaces of reflection and absorption – so each space offers a distinct recording character that is inseparable from its shape, volume, and material, and audible to an educated ear.

The Musician’s Lounge lies at the -10 m level. The descent evokes a subterranean, cave-like atmosphere suited to music production, while natural light remains a defining element throughout. Despite the level change, the lounge is visually connected to the restaurant and terraces above, keeping it open and light. This clear link and smooth spatial flow preserve a sense of intimacy and comfort – a true home-away-from-home experience, never the feeling of being “in a basement”. A double-height restaurant anchors the social life of Pur, linking outdoor courts and lounges to terraces and the seashore.

The recording studio, including live rooms, control room, vocal and percussion rooms, reverb chambers, editing/montage suites, mastering suite, and Dolby Atmos theater, is built as a box-in-box system for acoustic isolation and performance. The main live room is scaled to accommodate up to a 75-piece orchestra for large productions. Sliding partitions and rotating, adjustable height ceiling panels allow the live room to be tuned like instruments, expanding the range of acoustic possibilities.