CineScape
The cinema is so named
because it shows moving pictures. The origin of the word ‘cinema’ comes from
Kinēma ‘movement’. Since late 20th century, cinema has been one of
the most influential medium to our life by giving a lot of memorable ‘movement’
to life and taking from it. Pushkinsky Cinema has been a place to celevrate
these ‘movement’ and the people who devoted to make them since 1961.
We propose to design the
façade of Pushkinsky Cinema to be a frame which accentuates the ‘movement’ of
cinema lovers by providing various levels of transparency as they walk around
the façade. Thus the new façade itself film the ‘movment’ at every moment.
The design of CineScape
starts from the idea of bringing people on the pushkin square into the historic
existing theater, anchoring the rich urban context and, eventually transforming
the existing building to a future landmark. Zig-Zag glass ramp in the ample
atrium space function as a extension of continuous landscape of urban park and
embrace the movement of people. Glass interior curtain wall, ‘RED WALL’ runs
alongside of the ramp and becomes the exhibition gallery space, not to mention
to be a guardrail. Glass exterior curtain wall, on the opposite side of the
ramp, follows the trajectory of the ramp and intersects in the middle of the
front façade, providing framed overview in and out of the urban landscape.