Cinema
Architectural and design projects that reimagine cinemas as cultural spaces and public venues.
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.
KINETIC CINEMA
20 Years in the future... KINETIC CINEMA is a cinematic experience that pioneers a new evolutionary phase of immersive digital environments. This cinema concept marries virtual motion picture with physically moving pictures to create a tangible extended reality experience.
FAB Architects and Unes Architectes Revive a 1930s Neighborhood Cinema in Clermont-Ferrand
A geotextile canopy and textile-lined auditorium restore Le Rio's identity as a communal alternative to the multiplex.
Atelier Guo Inserts a Village Cinema into a Centuries-Old Ancestral Hall Without Touching a Wall
A reversible intervention in Nanping Village near Huangshan transforms a heritage timber hall into a cinema, library, and café.
FLOWING
This design discusses the film space experiment scheme in the coastal desert of the Persian Gulf. The designer uses the concept of the “flow” of the ocean and sand dunes to create a medium that breaks through the barriers between story and audience, reality and imagination, environment and humans, and people to people.
Very experimental idea and want to see how the acoustic and privacy issues are done.
Dream Organ
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.
Dream is a big but difficult topic to achieve as this topic lead imagination go very far away. Interesting concepts in the "organs" and would like to see more and know how they are working out in them.
Immersive Cinema Architecture: La Géode Cinema by Loci Anima
A transformative renovation of La Géode Cinema creates a world-class immersive cinema architecture blending brutalism with cutting-edge technology.
Cinema Box
Challenge is to design a film exhibition center that reaffirms contextual identity
Reflection
Reflection.The cinema center fully reflects the area in which it is designed. This is a reflection of the climate, the traditions, the culture and desires of the people who will visit this building.
Very nice! 👍
wonderful project! good luck!
Cinemateket: A Modern Take on Classic Cinema Architecture Design
This article details Cinemateket in Oslo, showcasing its blend of historic and modern cinema architecture design elements by SAAHA AS.
For reference, see Mark Goulthorpe's Aegis Hyposurface project.