We set a goal for ourselves to create a project of cinema as a big public screen that attracts people. We designed this building as a simple, emblematic, recognizable architectural object. LIC Cinema Center (as a brand) got a symbol, which is easy to identify in any place. We expressed the emblematic through the shape that could be distinguished from any distance and we called it “vertical amphitheater”.
Our concept could have a different skin, adaptation or environment but the shape can not be changed. The shape attracts people and invites them to enter and become a part of the show. We created a new element that combined several functions:
- to create a symbol (the brand)
- to go down only (not go up the ramp)
- to approximate a cinema and a museum. Exhibition pavilions # 1, 2, 3 … which are open either during a movie or (and) during the breaks. The topic of the movie and the exhibition might be the same
- to provide seats for the outdoor screen (vertical amphitheater)
- to practice social and physical activity
- to work as a double skin facade
- to use as a evacuation route
- to provide “show after show”. When a movie in one of the theaters is finished the lights in this theater’s vertical amphitheater are switched on. As the spectators exit, they are viewer as it on a big screen and participating in a show for the town.///LIC cinema center PROGRAM
lobby 10000sf
tickets 5000sf
bar 5000sf
lounge 5000sf each
restaurant 10000sf
film and book store 2500sf
auditorium 7000sf
theaters 100000sf TOTAL
[2] 40’x100’ screens with realD 3D each screen housed in a theater with 900 seats
[8] 30’x70’ screens with realD 3D each screen housed in a theater with 500 seats
[4] 30’x70’ screens for retrospectives and revivals each screen housed in a theater with 200 seats
[1] 8’x20’ screen for private viewings housed in a theater with 20 seats
[1] 60’x80’ imax screen housed in a theater with 800 seats at a 30 degree angle
outdoor theater 300000sf
[1] 48’x120’ outdoor screen