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[PROJECT07] [COMPETITION] [DEC2024] [Team:Guglielmo Vitelli,Simone Zauli+WinWin Studio]LA LLAR DE BIAR
[“Centro de asociaciones y auditorio del Municipio de Biar”by Provincia de Alicante]. Before designing a public building, one essential question must be asked: what should a place for the community be like? Open, inclusive, accessible, safe, bright, flexible, familiar, green, and inspiring. La Llar de Biar is conceived as a shared home for the town, a meeting point that connects people, supports existing associations, and generates new initiatives. Although composed of two volumes, the building is unified by a single entrance, reinforcing its role as a cultural and social hub. The project offers a wide range of possibilities: theatre, cinema, regional events, music, workshops, and even spaces for remote work and meetings supported by appropriate digital infrastructure. It is more than a cultural center, it is a place for inclusion, innovation, and community life. Born from the transformation of pre-existing spaces, La Llar balances creation and reuse, becoming a new reference point for Biar’s public realm. Its ambition goes beyond function: it aims to strengthen identity, connection, and belonging, acting as a catalyst for the town’s future.
Dos edificios en uno: hacia la ciudad nueva, el Auditorio; hacia el centro histórico, el Centro de Asociaciones. Ambos están unidos por una plaza interior, un luminoso atrio de triple altura.
The existing structure offers a series of opportunities that deserve to be preserved. The storage building is retained and repurposed to house the Auditorium’s Great Hall. The roof tiles are recovered for the new coverings, while materials from the demolitions are reused as aggregates for the new façade on Calle de la Barrera and for the atrium flooring.
The building’s sustainability goal is also achieved through an intelligent use of Biar’s environmental conditions, allowing for a drastic reduction of the internal volumes that require mechanical climate control. The bioclimatic spaces act as “insulating air buffers” between the occupied areas and the exterior environment.
The Atrium plays a fundamental bioclimatic role. Reflective curtains limit the entry of solar radiation and regulate levels of diffuse light in the rooms. The large triple-height volume acts as a solar collector and as an insulating buffer that protects the occupied spaces.
WINTER CLIMATE
The acoustic curtains reduce the volume of the auditorium, optimizing the mechanical heating system and creating a climatic buffer between the hall and the exterior. The atrium’s semi-transparent surfaces maximize solar gain throughout the day, helping to minimize the energy consumption of the climate-control systems.
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