United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema by Ichiro Katami and Kunihisa Akiyama is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Premju A' Design Award tal-Bronż in Disinn ta' Spazji Interjuri u Wirjiet Competition Category.
BronżInterjur· 2018
United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema
by Ichiro Katami and Kunihisa Akiyama
Client: Unite Cinemas Co., Ltd
Premju A' Design Award tal-Bronż Winner in Interjur Category
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The Design
About United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema
Il-lobby taċ-ċinema, il-ħitan u s-saqaf tal-kuridur huma miżbugħa abjad u t-tapit huwa iswed. Il-kamra tal-projezzjoni hija b'ħġieġ sabiex il-klijenti jistgħu jaraw il-projectors u l-inġiniera li fil-fatt jaħdmu hemm. Hemm Mużew tal-Projezzjoni. Il-Mużew fih Projector tal-Film 35mm, Lampa Xenon, films 35mm u 70mm, Reel Miftuħ u Għodod. Hemm disponibbli Kafetterija Librerija taċ-Ċinema li fiha 500 ktieb dwar films. Dawn l-elementi jistimulaw il-kurżità intellettwali tal-klijenti u l-ispazju intern sofistikat jieħu r-rwol li jarmonizzahom.
The Recognition
About the Premju A' Design Award tal-Bronż
United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema huwa rebbieħ tal-Premju A' Design Award tal-Bronż, rikonoxximent prestiġjuż ħafna mogħti lil disinji eċċellenti ddistingwuti mill-kreattività, l-ingenwità u l-għaqal. Ir-rebbieħa tal-Bronż huma xogħlijiet bi ħila biżżejjed u kreattivi b'mod impressjonanti li jawtentikaw l-esperjenza vasta, l-immaġinazzjoni u l-ħila ta' riżorsi tad-disinjaturi tagħhom. Huwa mistenni li United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema ikun oġġett imqabbar ħafna, mammirat u maħbub, notevolment professjonali u innovattiv. Dan id-disinn rebbieħ tal-Bronż jinkorporaw l-aħjar prattiki fl-arti, ix-xjenza, id-disinn u t-teknoloġija u huwa eċċellenti fl-attenzjoni għad-dettalji. United Cinemas Urawa Kumplessi taċ-Ċinema jissodisfa l-ħtiġijiet b'mod eċċellenti, imiss ix-xewqat, jinċanta s-sentimenti u jattira l-kurżità.
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.
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