A rapidly developing printing company seeks to enter the third phase of its expansion plan (first phase-factories and warehouses, second phase-dormitories): providing architecture with which the 20,000 plus employees can fulfill both their leisure and spiritual needs.This Community Hall is the first of a series of four buildings which also include a Museum and Cultural Centre, a small boutique hotel, and a Research and Development building. The function of the Hall has manifolds: to provide a sports hall and a staff club, with which both recreational and social needs are fulfilled; to erect an observation tower with which to survey the company precinct in its entirety; and to provide a backdrop and a major performance stage for outdoor activities. This complexity prompts an architecture that is at the same time permeable (public) and solid (private), a mass that has many faces (for projection, observation, etc), and a landmark that defines the centre of the company’s social quarter.