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Front elevation of the cultural centre framed by a mature tree

Breath —
Cultural Centre Design

A civic room shaped by light, rhythm, and a continuous arcade. The project brings public life into a calm central court and gives culture a generous, breathable frame.

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Arrival

A Luminous Threshold

A layered roof structure filters daylight across the entrance hall, turning circulation into a sequence of changing shadows.

Interior entrance hall with a rhythmic concrete roof and angled daylight

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Collective Space

The Courtyard as a Civic Room

The central plaza gathers every program around a shared open-air room, extending the cultural centre beyond enclosed functions.

Open courtyard surrounded by a continuous concrete arcade

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Urban Strategy

A Network of Public Places

The proposal joins a wider constellation of public buildings and outdoor recreational spaces, reinforcing the centre as a civic destination.

Urban network diagram connecting public buildings and open spaces

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Concept

Culture Through Gathering

Culture is understood as a grouping of knowledge, expression, and everyday exchange. A central plaza becomes the project’s spatial backbone.

Site strategy diagram showing the cultural centre and its central public plaza

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Climate + Ceremony

The Arcade as a Protective Frame

A continuous perimeter arcade shelters movement from rain and sun while giving the central court a memorable and civic-scale identity.

A crowd seen through a monumental arch opening toward the courtyard

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Typology

Four Arches, One Language

Four calibrated arcade sections respond to access, administration, multi-purpose rooms, exhibition spaces, the cafeteria, and the auditorium.

Diagram comparing four arcade typologies and dimensions

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Construction

A Coordinated Structural System

Load-bearing concrete porches, facade porches, and prefabricated panels form a repeatable system in which structure and enclosure share one rhythm.

Three axonometric diagrams explaining structure, facade porches, and prefabricated panels

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Adaptability

A Framework for Change

The structural frame allows the program to expand, contract, and be reconfigured over time without losing the project’s architectural identity.

Axonometric diagram showing an adaptable cultural centre structure

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Plan

One Court, Multiple Programs

Rooms gather around a continuous internal route. The central void clarifies orientation while supporting independent opening hours and varied cultural uses.

Ground-floor plan arranged around a central courtyard

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Section

Scale Marks Publicness

Large arches announce the auditorium and main entrance; smaller repeated arches define the everyday rooms and the intimate scale of the courtyard.

Two architectural sections showing changing arch scales

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Envelope I

Facade Porches

Internal and external arches extend the same architectural order across the courtyard and the street-facing perimeter.

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Envelope II

Prefabricated Panels

Concave industrialized panels complete the upper facade, giving the building a quiet vertical texture above the human-scale arcade.

Axonometric line drawing highlighting prefabricated facade panels

Breath —Cultural Centre Design