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Precedent: Mutual Space Designed and constructed during the mid-20th Century, Alvar Aalto’s Wolfsburg Cultural Center provides a community program for an,OFFICES otherwise, isolated working + CIRCULATION class community in Wolfsburg, Germany. The program includes functions as libraries, adult education facility, auditorium, event rooms, and private courtyards. This cultural center provides a common identity, outside of BACK work, for the community to associate. The form is STAGE based AUDITORIUM on a series of different size hexagonal cells rotating about BASEMENT a larger rectangular form. The section of the building PARADOSto communicate the is low and horizontal and attempts coexistence of intimate and shared space. Although the cultural center is not monumental in terms of form, its community-based program is monumental because Above: Figure 3.5 it addresses the heart of an urban fabric with shared Wolfsburg Cultural Center interior. archdaily.com (2016) space. The building does not have a specific function, yet it is the physical manifestation of the area’s locus. The community-based elements of the program are the essential portions of the Wolfsburg Cultural Center are concepts that will be integrated throughout the design LOUIS SULLIVAN |1890 | CHICAGO AUDITORIUM BUILDING process.
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Above: Figure 3.6 Wolfsburg Cultural Center program section. Colwart (2016)
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