Arts Building

Competition Entry
In collaboration with former members of Zaha Hadid Architects

Renderings: Studio GRiD
https://www.studio-grid.net

The proposal is conceived as a ‘landscape of experiences’, a flowing fabric where internal and external space is interwoven, boundaries are blurred and all arts and activities come together and interact. An extrovert space of expression, education, socializing and enjoying nature.

The building volume takes the form of an extended natural landscape formation, emerging from beneath the park and reaching out towards the north-east site boundary as an artificial extension. An extension that enhances the continuity of the fabric, integrates effortlessly with the natural landscape and the park, becoming an evolution of the existing condition.

Alternating this flowing gesture, a strong antithesis is proposed on the boundary at the sports facilities, where the building poses a strong, clean-cut transparent front - the entrance to the Arts Building – like a ‘portal’ opening up to the rest of the campus, calling students and visitors to be drawn inside the building.