Moscow 2011 competition
Changing the face -
Pushkinsky cinema
VIDERE cinema, body and brain,
thought
Our perception is subject to constant change. Not only do we speak of
visual perception but also of how we perceive intellectually and how we
accommodate this perception in our way of thinking.
This project takes up the challenge of treating the Pushkinsky cinema
within the urban context of Moscow as a component that expresses the changing
conditions of our way of thinking. In this respect the skin of the city - not
only the skin as a facade, as a ground surface, but also as a cultural layer -
is one of the key concepts.
Our fascination with the existing building is the original bare
appearance, as originally intended. The
shape, the transparent foyer, speaking sterile lines of the concrete that the
city connects with the audience. The narrow lines in the glass, the concrete
columns that support the building and platforms.
To return to this origin, the building should be stripped of all frills
misplaced.
The new layer of tactical
and carefully separate from the existing structure is enfolded by a DuPont
white demarcation screen of perforated
plastic that can be read as a skin, from which the cinema sees the city and through
which the city can see the cinema. It
is by means of this not inhospitable skin that the osmosis membrane between
city and cinema is expressed.
We thus try to create a new look that is appropriate for the main cinema
of Russia, the "palace" of the Moscow International Film Festival.
Motto : videre