![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3eff/e58e/ce47/7400/00eb/newsletter/portada_BIL_ext_park3.jpg?1443053296)
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Architects: Bandapar architecture
- Area: 1000 m²
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Adrià Goula
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3d59/e58e/ce47/7400/00e0/newsletter/BIL_ext_courtyards_4687.jpg?1443052873)
Text description provided by the architects. The community centre is a key-element of the city, being located between a true urban area and an A-listed park. It answers three main issues:
- how to create a true meeting place for the town as the whole, while bridging a 6m high level gap
- how to offer qualitative transition from the city to the park, from urban to wild
- how to dissolve within the existing landscape and disappear from neighbours’ eyes
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Windows, Handrail, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3ea5/e58e/ce79/a500/00e8/medium_jpg/BIL_int_hall1_4393.jpg?1443053201)
Two main features define the architectural solution: on the outside a generous pedestrian path offers both distance from the neighbours and sufficient light to semi-underground level.
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Image 16 of 20](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3dcd/e58e/ce47/7400/00e2/newsletter/BIL_planR1.jpg?1443052991)
On the inside, the central hall follows the same direction, stretching from the urban square to a belvedere onto the park. This hall gives access to various services with specific degrees of intimacy (community centre, kindergarten, centre for youth, associative spaces), while being a gathering place with abundant light.
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3e3e/e58e/ce47/7400/00e6/newsletter/BIL_ext_terrace_4717.jpg?1443053104)
The envelope of the building is multifaceted, with various angles to answer different conditions, to reduce visual impact and to maximize views to the outside.
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Image 15 of 20](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3d91/e58e/ce47/7400/00e1/newsletter/BIL_planR0.jpg?1443052931)
The result is visually discreet building that offers numerous relations to the park and the city, all in accordance to the various functions it hosts.
![Community Centre in Billère / Bandapar architecture - Table, Chair, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5603/3e65/e58e/ce47/7400/00e8/newsletter/BIL_int_activity1_4431.jpg?1443053139)