The ambition of this project was to consolidate all the best qualities that make a great cultural center and to give the local villagers the opportunity to experience these institutions in a rural context with a significant piece of architecture that they could relate to and which in turn could contribute to Intensify the identity of the place and the sense community. Given the constrains and limitations of time and budget available -which are part of the intangible context- we knew that the project had to be simple, efficient, functional, economical, easy to build, easy to maintain but also generous and meaningful. So essentially it was an issue of doing “More with Less”. Therefore, we strived to pursue an austere language of evoking spaces capable of stimulating the senses to produce positive emotional responses and with this in mind we created sensitive poetic rules that could speak the essence and character of each space in order to achieve the emotional impact we were looking for. For this reason, Light, shadow and penumbra play a fundamental role in the physical and atmospheric composition of the building as a common poetic ground in which the spaces and the humble yet worthy materials could be experienced in their full glory. We wanted a building that could be built by the locals aiming to build a sense of belonging and hoping that they would care for it. We also felt it was appropriate to have a serene building anchored to the topography that could talk to its neighbors but that could maintain its own identity.