From the architect.

The building site presents a trapezoidal

shape quite similar to a regular polygon, with one of its ends
curved, and the rest in angle. The building site is practically flat
on its north half, and presents a pronounced slope on the south
half. The building site's slope develops itself in a north-south
direction with a total drop of approximately 4 meters. The views
to the west from the high part of the site are splendid.
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ngel Baltans

The project consists on a multi-purpose building destined to be

a Cultural Centre and a Music School (a discipline that counts
with a big number of students in Meco) with four levels
corresponding to a basement floor, a semi basement, a ground
level floor and a first floor, the latter in the northern centerline of
the building. The building results in a compact plan that adapts
itself to the geometry of the existing terrain and occupies its
lower and southern part. Likewise, the building adapts to the
existing topography in a steep slope, arranging its program of
uses in a stratified way, within dependent layers with different
uses. As a result of all this, that the building organizes itself
with two entrances located in the opposite facades (south and
north facades) and different floors (semi-basement level and
bottom level). Each of these entrances gives access to clearly
differentiated uses. The southern entrance through an exterior
covered space gives access to the auditorium and to a multi-
purpose exhibition space that serves as the entrance hall the
auditorium. This level is equipped with the general washrooms
of the building and the necessary installation rooms for the
correct functioning of it. The north entrance, which you can
reach from a patio covered by a concrete lattice with access
from Plaza de Espaa, gives access to the Music School that
develops a program of uses which are consensual with the
direction of the future school that will develop its activity in our
spaces. An empty space runs longitudinally within the building,
merging uses and levels and permits a complex use and
perception of it. This vacuum presents itself as the place of
principal communication in the interior of the building,
describing it spatially and qualifying it as a public building as it
widens its limited interior surface area.
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In the basement floor are located the rooms such as store

rooms or change rooms that provide service to the auditorium.
In the first floor, the administration and direction of the centre,
and a small music library opened to the north and the views.
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The roof of the building has also a use. An outdoors auditorium

and a square called Southern Square located on the same
place complete the program of the Cultural Centre and Music
School. This auditorium and this Southern Square have an
access from the patio through a "stair-ramp", and also from the
interior of the building, becoming a quality leisure place and
urban rest.
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The action opts for a volume of well defined contours which is

able to affirm its autonomy against a residential heterogeneous
and recent environment of family housing in a suburb with no
architectonic interest, and other traditional housing with which
we have tried to create a dialogue. The popular abstraction is
chosen as a composition strategy at the elevations. The gaps
appear where they are needed by the interior uses or the views,
as in the popular traditional architecture, always abstract.
Plinths and frames are solved with our contemporary
material:"reinforced concrete"; the white stuccos, as well as the
scale and the volumetric treatment of the projected building,
collaborate in the insertion in Meco Town.