centro cultural de Loures — competition proposal
5800 m2 — may 2021
Praça Liberdade, Loures
The Loures Cultural Center project is a dialogue between two landscapes.
The project aims to act as a link. The proposal intends to expose this relationship between the urban and the organic.
Through this project we intend to approach the problem of urban expansion as a potentiality, where culture emerges as the result of this exchange. In the center of the city, in front of the City Hall, the project is developed in transparency, freeing the visitor’s field of vision towards the great landscape.
The implantation of the building is aligned with the axis of the City hall.
Its roof resonates with the volume of the municipal building. In front of the landscape, the facades of the Cultural Center curve to wrap up the surrounding. As a welcoming gesture, they strengthen the interior-exterior relationship while allowing the building to be merged with its surroundings.
The composition of the project allows the building to interact with the surroundings through two transitional spaces. On the South facade, the entrance facade, an urban square is developed. On the North facade, the park, represents the continuity of the future Parque do Rio.
The main entrance, the multipurpose rooms and the Café Concerto dialogue with the place. These activities will contribute to strengthen the relationship between the cultural centre and the city.
Like a Roman forum, the Café Concerto is designed to be a meeting place for citizens.
Entering the Cultural Centre, the visitor takes a ramp that leads to the lower level of the atrium. While going down, the volume of the atrium is offered to the visitor. It is a wide space where limits are blurred, in a game of rooms, surrounded by served and servers spaces. The high-ceiling, fully glazed North facade offers a privileged view of the public park.
From the atrium, the ramp continues outside the building, following the curves of its facades to reach the heart of Parque do Rio. This spatial scenography brings culture at the centre of the scenario.
Reaching the atrium, the visitor reaches the ticket office, following the natural movement of the ramp. The auditorium has a capacity of 600 seats; it is designed to be divided into two rooms with 300 seats each. The auditorium stage benefits from a zenith opening, a skylight at the scale of the building - the heart of the Cultural Centre.
Team:
Engineering: Francisco Domingos
Landscaping: Atelier Baum
© 3D credits:
exterior rendering: Imagineer, Jules Gaillard
interior rendering: Miguel Lopes
centro cultural de Loures — competition proposal
5800 m2 — may 2021
Praça Liberdade, Loures
The Loures Cultural Center project is a dialogue between two landscapes.
The project aims to act as a link. The proposal intends to expose this relationship between the urban and the organic.
Through this project we intend to approach the problem of urban expansion as a potentiality, where culture emerges as the result of this exchange. In the center of the city, in front of the City Hall, the project is developed in transparency, freeing the visitor’s field of vision towards the great landscape.
The implantation of the building is aligned with the axis of the City hall.
Its roof resonates with the volume of the municipal building. In front of the landscape, the facades of the Cultural Center curve to wrap up the surrounding. As a welcoming gesture, they strengthen the interior-exterior relationship while allowing the building to be merged with its surroundings.
The composition of the project allows the building to interact with the surroundings through two transitional spaces. On the South facade, the entrance facade, an urban square is developed. On the North facade, the park, represents the continuity of the future Parque do Rio.
Entering the Cultural Centre, the visitor takes a ramp that leads to the lower level of the atrium. While going down, the volume of the atrium is offered to the visitor. It is a wide space where limits are blurred, in a game of rooms, surrounded by served and servers spaces. The high-ceiling, fully glazed North facade offers a privileged view of the public park.
From the atrium, the ramp continues outside the building, following the curves of its facades to reach the heart of Parque do Rio. This spatial scenography brings culture at the centre of the scenario.
The main entrance, the multipurpose rooms and the Café Concerto dialogue with the place. These activities will contribute to strengthen the relationship between the cultural centre and the city.
Like a Roman forum, the Café Concerto is designed to be a meeting place for citizens.
Reaching the atrium, the visitor reaches the ticket office, following the natural movement of the ramp. The auditorium has a capacity of 600 seats; it is designed to be divided into two rooms with 300 seats each. The auditorium stage benefits from a zenith opening, a skylight at the scale of the building - the heart of the Cultural Centre.
Team:
Engineering: Francisco Domingos
Landscaping: Atelier Baum
© 3D credits:
exterior rendering: Imagineer, Jules Gaillard
interior rendering: Miguel Lopes
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