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The project area needs to be physically and functionally reconnected to the City, moving from a non-place to an urban place.

But how would it be possible to transform an inactive monofunctional space, a non-place, into a destination place?

The strategy is to combine the three city systems of the neighbourhood into a new music district through three simple actions: allowing the urban fabric to enter the site, outlining the main paths and access, and involving the Existing Philharmonic; designing a permeable public green park, able to restore the natural aim of the site; inserting a new urban attractive landmark. 

The site area becomes a piece of the city involved in the urban dynamics with a strengthened recognizable attitude. How is it possible to make the three different systems working together to promote a regenerative process? The new urban aim of the project determines its genesis by overlapping layers, preserving their peculiarities, but intertwining in a unitary organism. The design strategy focuses on two main actions: the first one consists in the re-functionalization of the back side of the Existing Philharmonic, creating a new attractive centre for the district; the second one provides an underground space, carved into the site level difference, preserving the natural essence of the park. The Glass Box is the trait d’union among the new Concert Hall, the Secondary Hall, the Existing Philharmonic and the Theatre Institute.