Forum Building

Built for a world cultural forum held in 2004, the building is a large triangular volume raised above a public space at the meeting point of major avenues near the sea.

The upper volume holds an auditorium for some 3,200 people and exhibition halls. Its facades are clad in rough blue sprayed concrete, cut by long glazed fissures, while the underside is finished in mirrored panels that reflect the movement of people below.

Beneath it, the ground becomes a covered square, open on all sides and punctured by courtyards that bring daylight down into the space.