(re)FUNCTIONING OF “THE CULTURE QUARTET”. Re-activation of 4 distinguished buildings, part of the Albanian architecture and historic heritage

The project proposes a clear distribution of new functions and a clear separation of the main functions that make up the content. The functions are divided into: public spaces, storage, temporary exhibitions, permanent collection, commercial spaces and promotion. Each function corresponds to a floor of the building: this hierarchizes the flows of users and makes it flexible to use for parts. The project, in addition to the internal reorganization, assumes a comparison with close settlement of Scanderbeg Square by the spatial relationship between the planimetric dimensions and those of the elevations of the public buildings. For this purpose it is considered appropriate to insert a semi-transparent crown that at night acts as a lantern projected on the context, claiming that the symbolic function that culture must be shared in the life of civil society. The building has three distinct characteristics of relationship. Permeability to the public spaces of the ground floor: it enables contiguity between the city and the building on the ground floor functions as a covered square. Introversion of the exhibition spaces: it corresponds to the reflection of thought that needs isolation from outside interference. Extroversion is the necessary confrontation with the outside world for business functions and the space devoted to the promotion. There is deliberately a clear physical separation between the spaces for culture and those of contemporary historiography.