CREATE CINEMA
The developer proposed a new venue for moving pictures, multimedia
performance and other presentation. It must distinguish itself from the city’s
existing offer of cinematic experience, offering a program committed to
revelation. This will be a picture house that links Liverpool to the world in
ways only marginally explored in the city’s other cinema venues.
The cinema has been designed to visualize the
debate between creationism and evolution, both through the programs and films
it features and also through the design of the building and interior forms.
I looked at 3 main aspects of the debate, along
with a few others smaller ideas when designing this cinema; Scale, Time and
Change. The ideas of light and dark, soft and ridged and, ebb and flow also
came into the design process.
Creationism, particularly in America, is now called "intelligent design" on the basis that the creation had to be planned by something that knew what it wanted to create. The exterior of the building is illustrative of "intelligent design" - precise, organised, structured, planned, whereas the interior is illustrative of evolution - darker, curved, organic, changing reflections, wandering pathways.
The exterior of the building is predominately glass. The structure of which is exposed reinforcing steel bars. However, these bars have been designed to visualize the feeling of tension within the debate/argument between creationism and evolution. Extra bars have been placed at angles, always leaning in the same direction, this has to be done to create the idea of rhythm and time (as the sun changes throughout the day, creating different shapes and shadows). The bars also create shapes and holes through the glass, illustrating holes in the theories behind both evolution and creationism. I wanted to look at ‘deconstructing’ the debate/argument and rebuilding it as a (w)hole.
Creationism, particularly in America, is now called "intelligent design" on the basis that the creation had to be planned by something that knew what it wanted to create. The exterior of the building is illustrative of "intelligent design" - precise, organised, structured, planned, whereas the interior is illustrative of evolution - darker, curved, organic, changing reflections, wandering pathways.
The exterior of the building is predominately glass. The structure of which is exposed reinforcing steel bars. However, these bars have been designed to visualize the feeling of tension within the debate/argument between creationism and evolution. Extra bars have been placed at angles, always leaning in the same direction, this has to be done to create the idea of rhythm and time (as the sun changes throughout the day, creating different shapes and shadows). The bars also create shapes and holes through the glass, illustrating holes in the theories behind both evolution and creationism. I wanted to look at ‘deconstructing’ the debate/argument and rebuilding it as a (w)hole.
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