When the scenery is this beautiful, who could blame you for letting
your attention wander away from the movie screen? Beijing-based
architect Ole Scheeren constructed a temporary floating cinema
for the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Festival in Thailand, with a platform
that undulated on gentle blue-green tropical waters in the Nai Pi Lae lagoon.
Some might argue that when you’re watching a film, you should be
totally sucked into it, forgetting about your surroundings – so what
should it matter that just beyond the screen are majestic, towering rock
islands, or that just below the platform upon which you sit could be
coral reefs brimming with colorful life? But watching a movie in a
setting like this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and
your memories of whatever film you see would never be the same.
The Archipelago Cinema featured a floating screen and a raft-like
auditorium where guests nestled into big, soft, cozy chairs. Scheeren
adapted local techniques used by fisherman to construct floating lobster
farms, making the cinema out of recycled materials. After its run as a
theater was up, the cinema was donated to the community of Yao Noi for
use as a playground and stage.
Scheeren described his project to Architizer:
“A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. And the
audience…floating…hovering above the sea, somewhere in the middle of
this incredible space of the lagoon, focused on the moving images
across
the water: a sense of temporality, randomness, almost like driftwood. Or
maybe something more architectural: modular pieces, loosely assembled,
like a group of little islands that congregate to form an auditorium
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