In the City of Pachuca, in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, a new urban development was created, consisting of various residential, commercial and services programs in a section of the City known as the “Zona Plateada”1 (Silver Zone). Ejido societies, government entities and private promoters formed a partnership to make viable the construction of this Cultural and Services Complex.<br /> <br /> The idea came about in this project to create a 25-hectare Cultural Park with the name “Parque Cultural y Recreativo David Ben Gurion”.<br /> <br /> <br /> It is situated at the southern head of the Cultural Park and because of its position inside the complex, it acts as the Crowning Visual Element of this great “sea of colors”. <br /> <br /> <br /> From this, the main idea arose of reflecting the mural plaza through a great reflective cover of mirror glass mullions, laid out at a height of 25 meters and with an overhang at both ends of nearly 40 meters. <br /> <br /> This building offsets on a petreous podium, where one of the main objectives is to be the first point for observing the mural. Its theater curtain or backdrop is represented by a petreous element that houses the stage, backstage and theater machinery.<br /> <br /> Because of the enormous transparency achieved in the foyer through huge windows that are completely transparent and slender silver posts, the space of the plaza becomes part of the Auditorium itself, creating a virtually continuous space.<br /> <br /> The shell of the Auditorium Theater is presented in shades of silver and black, in honor of the Silver Zone of the City of Pachuca; whereas inside, it has shades of brown and intense reds that represent the heart of the project, a living project, in remembrance of the great theaters of old.<br /> <br /> The construction of this Auditorium was finished in 11 months. The construction system mostly used prefabricated concrete and steel pieces, which sped up the time in which the works were completed. Around 1500 tons of steel were used, including cantilever frameworks of over 40 meters long, as well as various precast concrete elements, such as columns, beams, gradins, slabs or false walls. <br /> <br /> The central feature of this Park is a large mural plaza, 80 x 400 meters, made by the plastic artist Byron Gálvez, who comes from Hidalgo. This plaza, made with small mosaic pieces, covers an area full of different colors measuring. Around this plaza there are various spaces: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Audiorama, the Park of Sculptures, the State Central Library, the Convention Center, the Science and Technology Museum, a 5-star Hotel, and crowning the complex, the Gota de Plata Auditorium Theater<br /> <br /> The Auditorium structure is an "hybrid" system of 3 components, basically 6 big concrete "made in site" elements which act as the building "vertebral column", prefabricated concrete structures, and big steel elements.