The site occupies a privileged position in the upper part of the city, surrounded by a large public park of oaks, elms, and lime trees, and offering expansive views towards the mountains. The area is characterized by a series of high-quality modern buildings, many of them the result of international architectural competitions. This project was intended to complete that sequence, although its development coincided with the European economic crisis of 2008 and remains unbuilt.

The program is both ambitious and inherently civic. Several public administrations agreed to consolidate a group of cultural institutions within a single building, sharing site, services, design, construction, and operational resources. The project brings together a municipal parking structure, an Official Language School, a Music School, a School of Native Language and Culture, and a City Auditorium.

This coexistence of multiple institutions within a single structure defines the project. Constructed with restrained materials—primarily stone and stucco—and with carefully controlled openings, the building is organized as a vertical stacking of distinct programmatic bars. This configuration is intended to foster relationships between uses: visual connections, spatial overlaps, and moments of encounter between different groups of users.

The interior is conceived as a continuous environment, where movement across levels allows users to experience the building as a shared space. Roofs are accessible at various heights, functioning as outdoor terraces oriented towards the landscape. The Auditorium itself participates in this dual condition, capable of opening or closing its stage towards the valley.

While each institution retains a degree of formal and spatial autonomy, the building can be understood both as a composition of distinct parts and as a unified whole. The result is a collective structure that reflects a civic ambition: an architecture that embodies the idea of shared effort and common ground—a built expression of democratic collaboration.