United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima by Ichiro Katami and Kunihisa Akiyama

United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima by Ichiro Katami and Kunihisa Akiyama is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ime Ụlọ na Ngosipụta Competition Category.

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United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima

by Ichiro Katami and Kunihisa Akiyama

Client: Unite Cinemas Co., Ltd

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Ime Ụlọ Category

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The Design

About United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima

Ebe nnabata sinima, mgbidi okporo ụzọ na uko ụlọ ka etere na ọcha ebe kapeeti bụ nke ojii. E mere ka ụlọ ngosi ihe nkiri nwee enyo ka ndị ahịa wee hụ ngwa ngosi na ndị injinia na-arụ ọrụ n'ebe ahụ n'ezie. E nwere Myuziọm Projekta. Myuziọm a nwere Ngwa Ngosi Film 35mm, Oriọna Xenon, film 35mm na 70mm, Open Reel na Ngwa Ọrụ. A na-enwekwa Ọba Akwụkwọ na Cafe Sinima nke nwere akwụkwọ 500 gbasara ihe nkiri. Ihe ndị a na-akpali mmasị ọgụgụ isi nke ndị ahịa ebe oghere ime ụlọ ahụ nke mara mma nke ukwuu na-arụ ọrụ ime ka ha dabara ọnụ.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. United Cinemas Urawa Ogige Sinima na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The snow-white lobby like art museum welcomes guests and makes them wonder this place really a cinema because it has white walls, white ceiling, and dark tone floor. Guests can see the glass-in projection room, which becomes 70 meters, so they find how movies are projected and equipment as projectors, films, xenon lamps which is exhibited with instructions, and other tools. We call them the Cinema Museum. There also is the Library Cafe, which contains 1000 books related in movies, is open for every customers and they can get involved in the world of movies with cup of coffee relaxing in cinema chairs.
Dimensions & Packaging: 9 Screens, 7,131 sqm., Total capacity 1665 seats
Tags: Cinema, Cinema Museum, Library Cafe, Movie, Urawa
Production Technology: We used high performance Acrylic resin emulsion white paint for antifouling. We used the glass for projection room's long wall. The smoke glass has some shading rate to come over the dilemma that we have to cut the beam from customers, but want to show them the projector.
Design Challenge: The projection rooms placed in the backyards and guests have no chance to see it usually. However, we rethought such orthodox idea and made them one of the main character of here. To do so, various things had to be changed such as the smoke glass wall and staff operations was not exceptional. For instance, the projection engineers should not be conspicuous generally, but the glassed-room makes them impossible to be unknown. As long as such situation, we put the red clothes on them so they shall be stand out. So, the flexible idea and approach to make everything be harmonized is the hardest part of this project.
Research: The building has shopping tenants from basement floor to 5th floor, and 6th and 7th floor occupied by the Cinema and above is City Library. In such location, I believed that the Cinema should make relationship among whole building, not a tenant exists on its own, and it is possible. Thus there should be casual space where fashion-conscious customers visiting clothing stores will come, and should have setups that the visitors of the City Library drop in.
Inspiration: Having the good relationship with the shopping mall which contains City Library was the beginning of this project. People who visit the building are highly sensitive and full of intellectual curiosity. Considering the movies as intellectual content, cinemas can be place satisfies such people as libraries or Museums, not just a place watching movies. Such place must be cozy and comfortable for adults but not like uplifting and exciting that was usual interior design for cinemas.
Project Duration: The project started in 2005 and finished in 2007 in Saitama, JAPAN
Operation Flow: This cinema is designed to connect a formal faculty,the City Library, and fashionable place, Shopping mall. To make Cinema not divided, or isolated from public space, it has no noticeable facade so customers can walk through the lobby and take rest with no movie tickets. Also, people in the Library Cafe can enjoy their reading with a cup of coffee and muffin, that prohibited in usual libraries. The Library is specialized in movies with 1000 books that satisfy people who want to know more about movie. Everyone can use the Library Cafe without movie ticket so they feel free to visit cinema to just drink coffee for taking a rest from shopping or asking for a bite of muffin from the City Library and it makes the building lively.
Team Members: Interior Design: Ichiro Katami
Graphic and Sign Design: Naoyuki Suzuki
Book Select: Yataro Matsuura
Cafe Adviser: Sadahiro Nakamura
Architect: Kenichi Miyake
Art Direction: Kunihisa Akiyama
Image Credits: Noriyuki Yano/ Nacasa and Partners Inc.