The building sits in a 7.000m2 site which was part of the former town school of Cerezales del Condado, a rural village in León, Spain. The built facilities include 2042,7 m² of multifunctional spaces including exhibition spaces, auditorium, classrooms, workshops and archival spaces, and includes also seedbanks, stables and other spaces dedicated to agricultural activities. The architecture of the complex aim to revisit the archetypes of rural architecture while fitting in the Cerezales urban landscape. The pitched-roof, the gable ends, the barn buildings and the timber construction have been revisited in the design as a way of producing an architecture which will resonate with the content of the building. The use of an integral timber construction technology transcends the vernacular technologies (more likely to use adobe, bricks and ceramic tiles) to relate to more global images of rural architecture, but, most importantly, to address more universal concerns about the environment.