A transparent
suspended volume (the new face), placed in front of the original façade and
imagined as a kind of visual filter, working like an urban “Gallery”, starting
from the first floor of the Pushkinsky’s foyer and developed according to the
same geometries of the outer material volume.
In the new
space, obtained between transparent face so designed and the existent façade, a
red DuPont™ Corian® path winds through different levels. Along this gallery, it
is possible to stay, to visit an exhibition or simply observe on a different
point of view the city, the foyer and the relation between them; and last, but
not the least, the Corian® path becomes a space where new and old technologies,
naturally and inevitably, are compared.
The new face,
built in DuPont™ SentryGlas® technologies and materials, has the same
structural rhythm of the Pushkinsky Cimena, in order to respect the original
composition and perception, but also to allow an unobtrusive constructive
system, that leaves the entrance floor free from any kind of encumbrance.Differently from the old one, the new face
intend to be an “acting surface”, used in different ways: it can be
back-projected, it can receive art settings, it can be screened by some sheet
coming down from the top of the ceiling along the same steel beams, in order to
give back to the city the cinema, his historical façade, the social meaning of
his facing public space and his foyer, but, after half a century, with some new
different new functions, dealing new technologies and materials.