TRANS, from Latin (“through”,"across,“beyond”)
The Buda art center is considered as the cultural heart of the city, it consists exhibition spaces, workshops and concert halls. The intervention of the architects in this existing building is manifested by the implementation of two large volumes of pentagonal shape. The use of the existing structure in the new project reduces the budgetary costs of construction that would require the completion of a project in its entirety. This creates a great cultural center with few means.
In this project, the two different pentagons fit in a "subtle" and "remarkable" way by taking the material from the existing building, the brick. The first pentagon drilled from top to bottom brush against the building's limit without ever touching it. This hollow volume becomes the new entrance of the building and, therefore, its new facade. The opacity of the volume contrasts with the current of light that emanates from the sky creating an unique space. From this space, we do not perceive the existing building, nor the external environment. Upon reaching this space, the visitor is enveloped by the interiority created by the monumentality of the walls and the pentagonal shape. The second pentagon is located in the heart of the building, it becomes the circulation space that serves the different floors. The opening in the ceiling of this space controls the light and the sight, allowing to attract the interest of the visitors towards the cultural activities of the interior and not towards the
exterior. The stairs are transformed into stands of this cultural theater. And to contemplate the city, it will be necessary to have climbed all the floors and have reached the terrace.
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The museum of addition, article of the journal Abitare