Auditorio de Lugo

 

Auditorio de Lugo


LOCATION:
Lugo (ES)

ARCHITECT:
Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos

MODEL:
Custom

MORE INFO:
www.paredespedrosa.com (architect)

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The Auditorium, as the old Roman walls of the city of Lugo, has a strong link to the existing site and to the topography. The project involves rearranging the relationships between the open spaces of the slope and the city. The building is organized between two levels: a lower one related to the city and to the avenue and an upper level related to the existing gardens where the entrance to the auditoria and music school are placed. Parallel to the avenue the entrance to the congress area builds up the Auditorium’s representative image towards the city.

A long and irregular shaped volume hosts the area where public areas link a series of different spaces connected by a large continuous void. The auditoria for 900 and 300 seats are designed also for theatre and both are placed over the slope overlooking the garden with natural light. The building has a double image, a fragmented small-scale image towards the garden and a continuous glass curtain wall with different transparencies and heights towards the city, conceived as a large gallery.

The city selected a unique chair for this amazing building: oak plywood panels specifically curved to accommodate the cushions of the 45º tipping seat and the fixed back with 4 different inclinations. And all this assembled on stylish metal standards that provide 8 seat centres dimensions so they can be adapted to the radius of the auditorium and the air conditioning outlets.

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