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Busan Cinema Complex

Coop Himmelb(l)au's proposal for the Busan Cinema Centre and home of the Pusan International Film Festival suggests a new intersection between public space, cultural programs, technology and architecture to create identifiable landmarks within the urban landscape acting as icons of contemporary culture.

Project Details

Project Name: Busan Cinema Complex / Pusan International Film Festival, Busan, South Korea (2005 - 2010)
Planning: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU -- Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky + Wolfdieter Dreibholz
Principal In Charge/Senior Design Architect: Wolf D. Prix
Project Partner/Senior Design Architect: Michael Volk
Project Architect/Design Architect: Martin Oberascher
Project Team: Sergio Gonzales, Rob Henderson, Halstein Guthu, Matt Kirkham
Competition Team: Victoria Coaloa, Rob Henderson, Paul Hossowski, Joerg Hugo, Irakli Itoni Alex Jackson, Matt Kirkham, Shannon Loew, Mona Marbach, Jens Mehlan, Tom Wiscombe, Burcu Bicer, Etienne Chanpenios, Monika Heliosch, Akvile Rimantaite
Renderings: Armin Hess
Client: Municipality of Busan
User: Pusan International Film Festival
Coordinatior: BIACF-Busan International Architectural Culture Fstival Organizing Committee, Yeonjegu Jungangro, Korea
Structural Engineering: B+G Ingenieure, Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH, Frankfurt / Vienna
Environmental and Energy Concept: Brian Cody / Arup Germany
MEP Engineering: Arup Germany
Project data: July 2006
- Site Area: 32,100 m²
- Floor Area: 32,600 m² (interior spaces)
- Built-up Area: 8,774 m²
- Cubage: 183,100 m²
- Competition (1st Prize): 11/2005
- Start of Planning: 01/2007 (estimated)
- Start of Construction: 10/2007 (estimated)
- Completion: 10/2010 (estimated)
- Scheduled Opening: 10/2010
- Building Costs: 71 Mio Euro (budget)
- Costs per m²: 2,200 Euro (excl. exterior spaces)

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Coop Himmelb(l)au's proposal for the Busan Cinema Centre and home of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) suggests a new intersection between public space, cultural programs, technology and architecture to create identifiable landmarks within the urban landscape.

The concept envisions an Urban Plaza of four overlapping zones including an Urban Valley, a Red Carpet zone, the Walk of Fame and the PIFF Canal Park. The zones are formed by highly recognizable building objects housing the project functions. These objects include the Cinema Mountain, the PIFF Hill, the concourse Double Cone and the outdoor amphitheatre BOWL. Roof elements acting as a Virtual Sky connect the objects and zones into a continuous, multi-functional public urban space.

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The double cone is the connective element between the Cinema mountain and the PIFF hill, and the symbolic landmark entrance to the entire site. During the festival it marks the VIP entrance to the Busan Cinema Centre complex as well as to the concourse.

During the PIFF festival, or for other special events, the Red Carpet zone creates the special drop-off and media-event procession entrance. A conceptual red carpet extends from the Double Cone event space to the south through the park and along a pier. VIPS can enter from Limousines along the street edge, or arrive by boat from the pier.

The red carpet continues as a vibrant spiralling ramp from the staging level of the event space to the VIP lounge of the upper roof and to overviews of the public on the way to VIP entrances to the grand cinema in the Mountain and concourse in the PIFF Hill.

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Press Release, Vienna, 18 January 2011
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU‘s Dalian International Conference Center in China is winner of the Wallpaper* Design Award in the category “Best Building Sites”. The magazine Wallpaper belongs to the most influential international print media in the area of architecture and design, and is considered as trendsetter in the trade among architects, designers and other creatives.

The International Conference Center is situated in Dalian, an important port, industry, commercial and tourism center in the southernmost part of the Liaodong-Peninsula, in the Chinese province Laoning. The project with a dimension of 220m by 200m extends over 8 floors and combines numerous different functions within a single hybrid building on a total of 117,000 m²: a conference center, an opera house and an exhibition center as well as a basement with parking, delivery and disposal area. Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal of COOP HIMMEL-B(L)AU, describes the concept of the Dalian International Conference Center as the “idea to design a small city of conference and performance spaces beneath a shell-like roof. In the center is a grand 1,800 seats theater and opera house with stage and a flexible conference hall for 2,500 visitors.”

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