Located on an old barracks for infantry units in the Eastern Spanish city of Lérida, this new audiovisual production center gives new use to buildings which in the past surrounded a military parade ground, but addresses the more technological parts of its program – that is, the recording and filming sets – with a third volume, an altogether new construction which is designed as a neutral and flexible container. The former are built with walls of traditional masonry; the latter, with a lighter enclosure. But everything is given a sinuous and ethereal envelope which connects the three buildings, its concavity suggesting an opening to the entrance plaza.

This envelope is formed by textile canvases fixed to a substructure of steel tubes and struts arranged in accordance with a geometry of curved lines. Each compression ring of the subframe is slightly shifted with respect to the one under it, in such a way that the canvases, tautened between stretches, become complex warped surfaces which, besides producing a suggestive chiaroscuro effect, protects the building’s inner layer against excessive solar radiation, thus performing bioclimate functions in the summer.