The existing building started in the seventies of the previous century cannot cope with these requirements. Unfortunately, the current mark of the place is a characteristic disorder in the existing building structure from its design to its external form, the complication of its functional arrangement, circulation paths and space as well as being ceaselessly “under construction”. The programme of building’s expansion shows a lack of sense and need clarity, as if an own idea is only now being sought. Instead, the planned Centre for Cultures Meeting requires an open, multi-functional social space, which connecting the existing structure with the new will create a vibrant place for meetings and for daily visits of multicultural community of Lublin and of the region.
All the requirements set to the new building, both symbolic and social as well as formal, economic and design-architectural, are fulfilled in a simple characteristic shape of the new “Theatre under Construction”, being a metaphor of meetings’ symbol rooted in the culture – a tent. The new system of internal circulation spaces integrates the whole of the building, creating one consistent organism, being an open structure with separated blocks of special functions......more
