Auditorium & other services for Campus dei Licei

Renderings, views

The auditorium is not intended to follow the architectural typologies of surrounding building, but it is a horizontal basement underlining the mountains and enfasizing the phisical elements of the place. From a zenithal view it looks like a dark stone monolith set in a dramatic cut in the ground. The language is easily comprehensive. The impact with the building changes according to the observers point of view and to his different positions. The space experiance wishes to leave visual recollection of the place through a sequence of plastic emotions according to the user's position.

Walking along a large sloping level, a sort of outside stalls, the visitor reaches the true auditorium foyer. He is both audience in the hall inside and actor on scene outside. The perception of the building changes when sloping down: the stone monolyth floats on on a serigraphed glass basement (the exchange between the two functions, basement and body, is at a formal level). The foyer is a wide bright space including two translucent glazed bodieson the long sides, two parallelepipeds coated with whitened glass used as a cloak room and service space. Light comes from a glass "horizontal wall" which lightens both the ways as an opening in the ground.

Crossing an area of mixed functions, following the curved wall, expo spaces are modulated by future fittings and by light coming from the glazed ceiling of corridors (facing the expo room). The first one functions also as signal and communication with a translucent skin which can change colour and light, communicating that the spectacle is about to begin or has already taken place. It can also be visible from the town centre.

Separation between the two halls is made by a double layered insulated panel system. Between the two layers there is a functional passage for maintenance and for braking some frequency. The panels are multi-layered with acoustic (insulation and absorption) performance so that the two halls can functions at the same time. The panels can be opened (sliding) and joining the two it becomes a unique hall for 1500 people.