FULL SCREEN into the
imaginary is a curtain experience. A visual and physical travel from the real
world into an imaginary and legendary world. It gathers the best of facades
technologies and contemporary architecture with the original Pushkinsky
experience, respecting the main circulation system and overall layout.
The building
is a resurrected urban icon, a theatrical curtain in the day and a
communicative screen at night shouting and singing the beginning of a movie.
The building is covered to highlight the surroundings but especially the
interior, the “imaginary” world. It is partly inspired by the classical opera
curtain but mostly by the art work of Christo. In fact, Art
critic David Bourdon has described their wrappings as a “revelation through
concealment.”
These
architectural façades are realized thanks to the most innovative materials. Thus the side “curtain” façade is made in white Corian®
exterior cladding panels on Façalu® light framework structure. The main
entrance is made in black Custom
Pushkinsky Corian® exterior cladding panels. The main facade can be recovered
with Teflon® architectural fabric for special event such as public movies
projections. SentryGlas® is used for the glazing and for the new fully glazed
footbridge.
The theme of
journey is literally used and several spatial experiences are proposed. The
sensation of levitation on the glass footbridge, the sensation of immersion
between two “curtains” or in the “trumpet” entrance... While you start to get
closer to the building, the white “curtain” facade starts to wrap you up: it is
the beginning of an extraordinary acoustic and visual experience.
The building
acts as a storyteller at several scales. The main facade can be used as a
screen for public events such as movie projections. When you are
on one side or another of the facade, the pattern creates an ever changing
framing experience of the surroundings.
Is it a Mouth
screaming a freezing sound from Hitchcok or is it a trumpet singing a warm Russian
song?
For sure it is a trip
from the real world into the imaginary and fiction world, the realm of the
Pushkinsky Theater.