Cinema
Architectural and design projects that reimagine cinemas as cultural spaces and public venues.
Cinema as a design subject encompasses the architecture and spatial design of movie theaters and film venues. Members explore how these spaces function as cultural anchors in their communities, from adaptive reuse projects that preserve historic cinemas to new constructions that integrate film viewing into public gathering spaces.
The community examines cinema design across scales and contexts, including heritage cinema renovations, innovative theater insertions into existing structures, and contemporary reinterpretations of the traditional movie house as a multifunctional public space.
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Cinema Futurismo: A Circular Auditorium That Replaces the Screen with Space
A shortlisted entry reimagines the movie theater as a domed, holographic landscape where spectators surround the projection instead of facing it.
NON GRAMME: A Cinema Where Architecture Becomes the Screen
On Piotrkowska Street in Łódź, a perforated facade dissolves the line between projected image, audience, and city life.
KINETIC CINEMA: An Auditorium That Moves With the Film It Projects
Justin Acevedo's Editor's Choice entry turns cinema walls into flexible, piston-driven projection surfaces that bend and shift alongside the image.
Cinema WAVE: Dismantling the Movie Theater Into an Open Timber Frame for Park Life
A winning Cinema Futurismo entry that breaks the black box into movable screens, terrain-like seating and an open frame where film meets park life.
