The South-Western Minority Cultural Center brings a library, museum and community arts centre together, its undulating roofs and layered terraces evoking a mountain landscape suspended in the heart of the city. Parallel grouping organises their shared requirements into three bands: storage and circulation, large halls and sky wells, and smaller flexible rooms. This arrangement coordinates programme and structural spans, allowing the institutions to operate separately while sharing facilities.

Alternating halls and sky wells form the core of the building. Courts bring direct and reflected light into the community arts spaces. Sky wells separate the museum galleries, reached by a bridge across a tall court. Above, the library’s reading areas step back towards daylight. A common organising method thus accommodates different spatial scales and light conditions for exhibitions, reading and collective activities.

The architecture develops the relationship between undulating roofs, layered bases and permeable facades found in local houses. Folded roofs echo clustered peaks; coloured glass and perforated panels change in sunlight and rain. The base follows the terrain through broad steps for public activities. Closely spaced vertical elements and frosted glass filter daylight and views. Together, roof, terraces and translucent enclosure shape both the building’s outline and the layered light of its interior.