Abstract: Gambirasio and Zenoni’s civic center intentionally establishes a condition of otherness with respect to the surroundings. The pitches, lowering outward to touch the basement, determine a closed façade, introverted and yet strongly characterized by the dialectic between volumes of different size and depth leaning outward. Of opposite sign, in an almost dichotomous dualism, is the interior space that distributes the different spaces, but also offers itself as a place of meeting and rest.