The growth of Jerez towards the North -limited in the South by the strong drop in levels where we can find the great wineries- has left its historic centre in an eccentric position. The business, economical and institutional life -which take place mainly along the axis coincident with the former border of the city walls in the Northeast- and a lack of North-South traffic permeability are the starting points of  the present deterioration of the major part of the historic centre.

We suggest to improve the connection between the competition area towards the Northeast ,not building in the smaller plot . As a consequence, the whole brief is concentrated and compressed in a single building within a rectangular plot , a geometrically emphatic floor plan which contrasts with the picturesque surroundings, enhances the  condition of streets and creates a big and public open space towards the North and East, playing a similar role as that of the Plaza de Belén in the south of the building regarding permeability and access.

It relies in our will to connect North and South where the section can be deduced, an inclined plan linking both squares -the existing one and the one created- which symbolically strengthens its passable  nature and underlines its public condition in a strong residential enviroment.

This space, gathering the auditorium and the access to the museum -two traces, two carved marks on the plan- could even function as a big covered square in some occasions.

The Auditorium allows for different audiences according to the kind of event. Sliding doors, vertical ceilings and curtains -assure its  good acoustics- and allow the subdivision of the space as to have the required intimacy. Bringing  the  mixture of uses to its limits can be seen by the lateral juxtaposition of the cafeteria and the gymnasium in the central space what guarantees that activity and spectacle never lasts.

The museum is planned under the inclined plan as its access, and its exhibition galleries organized on both sides of a main circulation axis zenithally illuminated.

A unyfied structure able to cover the big required structural span is set out over the big central space and embraces the school of flamenco and the documentation centre.