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United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema by Mitsuhiro Shinohara

United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema by Mitsuhiro Shinohara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Bwonz in Enteryè Competition Category.


BwonzEnteryè· 2023

United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema

by Mitsuhiro Shinohara

Client: United Cinemas

A' Design Award Bwonz Winner in Enteryè Category

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The Design

About United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema

United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu se yon konplèks sinema ki bati pou vil Chichibu, yon vil ki te pase 29 an san okenn sal sinema. Konplèks la gen sèt ekran ak 650 chèz nan yon espas 2,490 mèt kare. Pifò ekran yo gen mwens pase 100 plas, sa ki pèmèt yo prezante yon gran varyete fim pou yon popilasyon ki pa twò gwo. Yon fasad kiden vè (curtain wall) ansanm ak yon lobi klere ki fini ak wòch adwaz ak bwa akeyi tou de moun k ap pase bò la ak moun k ap vin gade fim. Konsepsyon an fonksyone tankou yon salon pou vil la, kote vizitè tout laj ka rankontre. Tout sal sinema yo itilize pwojektè lazè ansanm ak yon sistèm siyalizasyon dijital.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Bwonz

United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema se yon ganyan A' Design Award Bwonz, yon rekonesans ki gen anpil prestij yo bay design ekselan ki make pa kreyativite, enjenyozite ak finès. Ganyan Bwonz yo se objè ki abil anpil e ki kreyatif nan fason ki frape, ki otantifye gwo eksperyans, imajinasyon ak debouyaj designer yo. Yo atann United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema pou se yon objè anpil moun estime, admire e renmen, ki pwofesyonèl e inovatè nan fason remakab. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Bwonz enkòpore pi bon pratik nan atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji, e li ekselan pou atansyon li bay detay. United Cinemas Unicus Chichibu Konplèks Sinema satisfè bezwen yon fason espledid, li touche dezi, li chame santiman e li atire kiryozite.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The cinema complex has been waiting for citizens of the Chichibu for years. To answer the expectation for it, the cinema should be open and comfortable to people who do not watch movie. The cinema design to be here as like a living room for citizens. The city is famous for its nature as Mt. Buko, Nagatoro river, the rock pavement, and also the histrical view of town. This cinema takes them in and it succeed.
Dimensions & Packaging
7 screens, 2,490.68 sqm., total capacity 650 seats. Most of screens are capacity of less than 100 seats. One 3D theatre. All theatres are installed a laser projector by Barco.
Tags
Movie Theatre, Cinema Complex, Cinema
Production Technology
Laser projector for all theatre, full automation projection system, disital signage system, Bems Gem2, 3D projection system
Design Challenge
This cinema has the most small capacity of the seats. It could be possible that make capacity more and less the amoutn of halls, but because of the feature of small population of the city and to make variety of showing movie, it is decided to make as possible as many halls with small amount of seats.
Research
Even not very large area of the cinema, the curtain wall facade makes not only movie goer but also people who just interested can come easier. The lobby is as if it is sun room and nature look materials are adapted as like slate stones and woods, tried to take into the nature of Chichibu city into it. There are many older people at the city so tried to here to be a place just enjoy and makes communication over generations.
The cinema is not only a cinema complex, but also the living room with movie culture.
Inspiration
It have been a 29 years the Cihchibu city had lost a movie theatre. The developer P&D Consulting, the city and United Cinemas are planing to revive the movie theatre here for 10 years and in 2022 Summer, the cinema complex have been there with great welcoming by citizen.
Project Duration
This project took over 10 years of planning, started in 2019 and finally be realized in 2022.
Chichibu is a famous tourist destination in the Kanto region, with a population of approximately 60,000 people, famous for its geo-sites such as Mt. Bukou, where concrete material was mined, Nagatoro Gorge, famous for its rock pavement and line rafting, and springtime lawn cherry blossoms. The movie theater was built adjacent to an existing neighborhood shopping facility.
Operation Flow
This project is cooperated with municipal office, the developper and United Cinemas to liven up the city as advertising and prompt citizens to the movie theatre.
The cinema is located where the main road from Tokyo district so we tried to make here become icon of the city.
PoteKuma-kun, the mascot character of the city, is adapted for exterior signage of the cinema that can see at image #3, a lot of advertisement, and coraborated with an advertisement movie before the show starts.
Also many news paper, radio, and local TV news picked us when the cinema opens and continues our cooperation for make citizens feel familier with movies and not to disappear a movie theatre from the city again.
Image Credits
All photos: P&D Consulting

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