Urban design di prim’ordine!
A new way to watch a short film! The temporary urban intervention in Portugal was intended to bring the city together through viewing a series of short films created by local artists. When the structure is fully utilized, the form resembles that of a centipede–a name that stuck, the Centipede Cinema. With three miniature pop-up cinemas and room for 16 people, the Centipede Cinema is a unique and obviously curious structure that would attract any passerby.
Conceptualized and designed by the Bartlett School of Architecture in Britain, the simple design is colorful and utilizes a plentiful local resource; cork. The lightness of the cork allows for a simplistic and light steel structural frame but is also used to help with acoustics and light. The cladding of the structure is a lighter colored cork where as the interior cork is dark to help reduce light penetration and reflectivity.
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