Antipode Music, Youth And Cultural Center

Urban planners Secchi and Vigano organized various programs like large islets flooded by vegetation. The site is a vast territory on which were historically armament factories. To make its memory last, some walls have been preserved as well as large trees that punctuate the horizon.

The structure will reveal itself through the large oak trees, a filtered vision through the canopy. Like a castle in its park, the building, as if concealed, will emerge through this vegetal universe

The agora connects blocks as different as a current music scene, a media library, music rehearsal spaces, a Youth cultural center, music and recording studios, dance rooms, and a creation and rehearsal space.

Around a central agora with an added patio, the spaces are intermingled, and fused to connect the plan's elements intended for public use such as the bar, the exhibition space, or the conference room.

The project is drawn like an extended and compact mass from which the empty spaces have been removed. The natural light irrigates the spaces thanks to the four patios and some terraces.

The almost maze-like layouts reveal the complexity of the interweaving programs and their layers. Like a Raum, the unusually scaled plan emphasizes an apparent absence of hierarchy.

The media library catches the light on all four sides as if it were evading from this thick, compact mass.