Since 2017, the Cyprus School of Architecture has been running competitions for small properties for a public beach in Geroskipou Village. One of these competitions was dedicated to the creation of a beach cinema. The contestants were challenged to rethink the traditional concept of open-air cinemas, to offer something more than a screen and seats for spectators. It is still necessary to meet the construction budget - € 10,000, and the result of the competition announced the implementation of the winner's project.
The winner was the St. Petersburg bureau KATARSIS Architects. The architects proposed a simple and elegant permeable structure that will not interfere with the perception of space, distort it and block it. There are no chairs in this cinema, the audience is lying right on the sand and watching a movie "on the clouds". Hence the name of the project - "Sky Cinema".
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zooming 1/4 Competition project of a beach cinema in Geroskipou © KATARSIS Architects
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zooming 2/4 Competition project of a beach cinema in Geroskipou © KATARSIS Architects
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zooming 3/4 Competition project of a beach cinema in Geroskipou © KATARSIS Architects
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zooming 4/4 Competition project of a beach cinema in Geroskipou © KATARSIS Architects
The young studio KATARSIS Architects actively participates in Russian and foreign competitions, and this is not its first victory. In addition, in 2017, the bureau entered the top 30 of the Russian Youth Architecture Biennale.
It is pleasant to note that the second place in the Cypriot competition is also a Russian project. The authors - a married couple Yegor Korolev and Elena Smirnova - are developing their own studio son architecture. For them, participation in competitions is one of the priority areas.
The proposed idea is based on an analogy with a fishing net - after all, the cinema is located right by the sea. Spectators, comfortably seated on a stretched net, hover above the ground, dissolving in the reflected lilac rays of the movie projector. The canvas is divided into separate "cradles" for lonely spectators and for lovers. During the day, the structure can be used as a playground.
Finally, in third place is the project of Enzo Nercolini and Matthew Duke. This cinema literally grows out of the sand, not trying to divert attention from the coastal landscape to itself. The sand, according to the authors, should be the "protagonist" of the project for the beach cinema.
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zooming 1/5 Geroskipou Beach Cinema Competition © Matthew Dueck & Enzo Nercolini
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zooming 2/5 Geroskipou Beach Cinema Competition © Matthew Dueck & Enzo Nercolini
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zooming 3/5 Geroskipou Beach Cinema Competition © Matthew Dueck & Enzo Nercolini
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zooming 4/5 Geroskipou Beach Cinema Competition © Matthew Dueck & Enzo Nercolini
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zooming 5/5 Geroskipou Beach Cinema Competition © Matthew Dueck & Enzo Nercolini
Learn more about the competition here.
