Arquipélago — Contemporary Arts Centre

The project does not exaggerate the difference between the old and the new buildings. Instead, it seeks to unite the different scale and the different age of its parts through a pictorial manipulation of the form and materiality of the buildings - the existing marked by the apparent masonry of volcanic stone and the new buildings characterised by the abstract form, without reference or allusion to any language, built-in exposed concrete with local basalt aggregates with an altimetric and textural work of the surfaces, complementing the full/empty relationship of the building mass with the voids of the courtyards.

The ACAC acquires its identity through the tranquil variation between the existing building - containment and minimum gesture in the strategic implantation of the infrastructure channels, maximum effectiveness in the spatial and functional hierarchy of the different spaces of the factory complex - and the two new buildings that, by demanding special conditions not compatible with the pre-existing one, solve the required functionalities.