Riudaura Cultural Centre
Spain CCC ES
RCR Arquitectes
1999
Type
Civic
Tags
back to the rural realm, Spain ccc
Visitability
Allowed
Description
Riudaura is a small town with 425 inhabitants at the head of a valley. It has no public buildings apart from a church and the town hall square because the school is confined to the lower floor of a house.The town now wants a new public space for its cultural, leisure and sports activities, to be built on an allotment at the entrance to the town, topographically in a depression opposite the church. The challenge consists of using a single space to cover this diversity of activities in this special social-landscape context.The new building captures its environment. It is laid out as a horizontal line that accompanies displays and underscores the vertical event of the church. The transversal alignment frees up and typifies a new square at the front. It is also sited to oversee the play, dance and sports zone.The building permits a link between the two spaces through dark, deep, recurrent gateways.(Description provided by RCR)