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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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.
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.
