The building of the New Headquarters of the Theatre Institute is located within the grounds of the Mercat de les Flors and the Palau de l'Agricultura, together with the Municipal Theatre and the New Headquarters of the Teatre Lliure.
Basically, the program determines two major functional areas. The teaching centre, with the different schools and specialties, and the one of a more public nature or frequently used by people outside the teaching area.
The building was conceived with the intention of not wanting to compete with the character and image established by the existing buildings of the future Teatre Lliure and Teatre del Mercat de les Flors, without giving up, however, the ability to express its own autonomy and modernity dialoguing without violence with the neighbouring architectures.
The void that determines the open atrium-vestibule has been designed in complementarity with the neighbouring architectures, establishing relationships that want to go beyond the formal evidence.
This void, its dimensions and proportions, as well as the façades that formally frame and determine it, are the mechanisms used to endow the building with the public and representative character that it has to achieve, promoting a certain scenographic quality that represents metaphorically the activity of the centre.
The building revolves around this large exterior hall, through which it is connected to Margarida Xirgu Square and the rest of the Ciutat del Teatre. It is where the main accesses to each of the centre's differentiated use areas (Theatres, Teaching Area and Museum-Library-Documentation Centre) are located, and the different volumes that surround it are determined in response to its functional diversity.
