We understand that the project responds to the particularities of its location and programme of needs.
In relation to the site, it is located between the boundary of the consolidated city and the future extensions.
The transition from one fabric to the other is articulated by a strip of natural terrain, which is structured by the Mèder river.
On the northern boundary, the consolidated city is made up of courtyards overlooked by the rear façades of buildings between partitions.
Among them is ‘Can Serratosa’, the current headquarters of the Vic School of Music, which will house common spaces in the new School of Music.
‘Can Serratosa’ has a side passage that allows direct access from the street to the site, which will be of great importance in the development of the proposal.
The southern boundary, on the other hand, is just a property line with no real consistency, which we think should be dissolved by giving a solution of continuity to the unbuilt plot with the green defined by the river bank.
In relation to the programme:
It is basically made up of parts of very different constitution: Theatre, Auditorium, Services, Music School and Restaurant.
If the Theatre and the Auditorium are large-scale pieces that do not need natural light, the Music School is, on the contrary, the repetitive aggregation of small units that do need natural light and ventilation. In the case of the Theatre, it is worth highlighting the inevitable height of the stage box which, due to its volume, will be a visual reference of the complex in relation to the city and its immediate surroundings.
PROPOSAL
It has been elaborated according to the objectives:
1. To understand the construction attached to the consolidated city, as a merged part of it and, on the contrary, to link the free space to the natural territory organised by the river bank.
2. To use project systems that were capable of solving with the same instruments (relationship with the ground, geometry and roofs, basically) pieces as diverse, in terms of use and scale, as those that make up the programme, and which in turn managed to include the volume of the scenic box in the rules of the system used.
3. In this sense, the use of the passage from ‘Can Serratosa’ to the free space has been very important, as a backbone that situates and gives access to all the parts of the programme. And also the use of the sloping roof, which descends from the highest level of the stage box and unfolds to cover porches and classrooms.
4. Among the materials used (exposed concrete, basalt, lacquered aluminium, etc.), we have introduced a metallic cladding in the highest parts of the stage box and the School of Music, a copper-aluminium alloy, which directs the view to the skyline of the complex and, from there, to the city of Vic.
