Designing a platform for film exhibition

A room of audience erupts into a fit of giggles as a comical tramp with a short mustache, wearing a suit and tall hat slips on a banana peel. The couple embraces as the man makes her stand on the railing of the ship, grabs her arms, and extends them out. "I'm flying," she says, as people swoon in unison over their romantic harmony and impending tragedy.

Cinema is one of the biggest cultural activities in the world. An art form with the biggest influence, budget, and widespread connectivity. Inducing emotions and crafting perspective, as it grows to be a visual medium connecting the world as we know it today.

Films are essentially a communal experience where people shared a dialogue and society interaction prospered. But with time, public exhibition of films is slowly disappearing. But with time, public exhibition of films is slowly disappearing. 

In the century of ‘clip thinking,’ a platform is needed where people can watch and enjoy films. A meeting place that encourages conversations and dialogue between people. On a macro scale, a space that helps in reaffirming contextual identity and brings the city in the frame.

The challenge was to design a convention center for cyclic film enthusiasts, where the focus is on viewing and building dialogue through cinema.  

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows: 

Mégui Dal Bó, Architect, Mégui Dal Bó Arquiteta, Brazil

Virginia Lung, Founder & Design Director, One Plus Partnership Limited, Hong Kong

Ajax Law Ling Kit, Founder & Design Director, One Plus Partnership Limited, Hong Kong

Some of the Best of competition projects are:

 

Winning Project: Tracing the Faded

By: ZHIYU LI, Rui Huang & Ziyang Xu

Description: Under the fading canopy, walking from underground to the earth surface, experiencing the evolution of film culture.

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People Choice: Cinema Box

By: Валентина Пожар

Description: The search for movie viewing options continues and will continue, but so far the screenings in theaters have been consistently successful. The project offers a symbiosis of the traditional screening of films in the cinema and a platform for new forms and the search for new forms of film screening, allowing cinema to constantly keep up with the times.

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Editor’s Choice: FLOWING

By: 雅洁 秦

Description: This design discusses the film space experiment scheme in the coastal desert of the Persian Gulf. The designer uses the concept of the flow to create a medium that breaks through the barriers between story and audience, reality and imagination, environment and humans, and people to people.

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Editor’s Choice: Dream Organ

By: Yixuan Cai, Borou Yu, Jiajian Min & xiaoxiao zhao

Description: Inspired by Bernard Stiegler’s theory, this project explores cinema and dreams, consciousness, and unconsciousness. The project itself is a land art with twenty organs of cinema and the cave for public events, creating an immersive dream space for film lovers.

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Editor’s Choice: The Trick

By: Xiangcheng Su, Qiuyuan Gao & Xiaozhen Zhang

Description: The main concept behind our design is based

on our understanding of cinema-“Trick”, we think the process of making a movie is like playing a trick. Audiences are brought into stories based on the frames made by movie production teams. They cry, laugh, angry, and crazy about stories which are may not real.

 

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