Sant Cugat Cultural Centre

The project seeks to resolve from the volumetric approach itself the necessary coherence of a sufficiently diversified functional programme, as is the case with the grouping of a theatre, a music conservatory and several cinemas. The complex of buildings will dominate like pieces of an architectural ensemble, from the Arboretum, as the land slopes gently down from the farthest point to the Torreblanca promenade, where the Sant Cugat cultural complex is located.

The theatre, both in terms of its volume and its arrangement in the ensemble, voluntarily tends to play the leading role in the whole operation. The other buildings are arranged around the perimeter of the central piece, in an attempt to solve the problem of scale posed by the side and rear façades of the theatre. This special formal diversification is what will allow the different parts to be understood as a single built-up whole, and will attempt to resolve the evident problem of scale posed by the large central volume and its encounters with the immediate urban surroundings, while establishing, from more distant and global readings, an image of autonomy and representativeness in accordance with the characteristics of the Cultural Centre.