Located in a seaside city on Spain’s eastern coast, Centro Cultural de Benidorm by Navarro Baldeweg Arquitectos and Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos is an auditorium and music conservatory that combines flexible spaces in an organic way.

The project of the Cultural Center as a whole is instead of a project of a building, the project of a small city.

Small and large activities take place in various spaces connected by “the streets.”

Both on the ground floor and on the upper floors, the patios are the “city’s” squares.

It features spaces where large activities are held and others where smaller ones take place, with connecting elements, the corridors, acting as the streets of this city.

The open spaces, such as the courtyards located both on the ground floor and on the upper floors, are also similar in purpose and shape to urban squares.

The Auditorium and the Professional Conservatory of Music and Dance combine and dose the dependence or independence of the Centre’s activities according to the flexible and organic wishes of use.

The auditorium, equipped with Figueras seats, can accommodate 450 spectators and is located below street level.

The entrance to the auditorium is through a large double-height foyer containing the main vertical communication core and a coffee shop which is open to the public.

The large ribs of the existing structural system, completely bare of any cladding, define this space.

Project: Centro Cultural de Benidorm
Architects: Navarro Baldeweg Arquitectos and Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos
Lead Architects: Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Víctor Navarro 
Team: María Langarita, Francisco Abellán Estevan, José Luis del Cid Mendoza, Eugenia Concha Jiménez Coral, Pablo Sánchez de Vega Gutiérrez, Javier Estebala Alández, and Antonio Antequera Reviriego
Client: City of Benidorm
Photographer: Luis Díaz Díaz, David Zarzoso.