In the crossing roads, Fillelinon and Dimitriados, in Volos, a parking is authorized to be built. In occasion of this, this paper there is proposing an alternative solution of use of this space. This solution consists of a planetarium “with a museum of contemporary art” in order to exploit the special point of this geographical point in the town, which can act as a catalyst to its cultural and the social life. The site is located in the centre of the town among other land uses such as recreation, purchasing, education (the central university of Thessaly is located nearby), park and finally it is close to the port. All these facts, makes the site a location with many advantages for a building of this kind.
The building will include spaces and services for the daily inflow - outflow of information in order to create a continuous "relationship" with the residents of the city. Its functions are summarized to the followings:
• A planetarium with capacity for 80 people inside diameter of 12 meters and 22 degrees inclination,
• A digital library (which can offer much information without the need of big space)
• Four rooms of workshop that can provide reproduction and transformation of useless things into useful
• Two major areas reporting 450 and 350 sqm respectively, in which, there could be displayed works of workshops and any other report that can be accommodated
• And finally recreation rooms
Much attention was paid, in the design of the building, in the way that it was assigned. That happened in order to be created a square, which could continue the urban fabric of Dimitriados with an open space worthy of the size of the building. Also, there was a predisposition that the architecture of the building could be a mark for the city so visually as "historical" as well. So, the height of the building could be said to be fairly large compared to the city and that has elements that refer to industrial architecture in order to link with the city's history.