Architecture Design, UFA Cinema Center, Germany, Coop Himmelb(l)au
September 1st, 2008 - Posted in Architecture Design
The UFA Cinema Center, designed by in 1998 in Dresden, Germany.The design is characterized by two intricately interconnected building units: The Cinema Block, with eight cinemas and seating for 2600, and the Crystal, a glass shell which serves simultaneously as foyer and public square.
The urban design concept of the UFA Cinema Center confronts the issue of public space; currently endangered in European cities. This situation is caused by the financial insolvency of city governments, which forces the sale of public space to developers, who then propose monofunctional buildings in order to maximize capital return.

exterior UFA Cinema Center building facade
Half of the theaters are underground and the other four are “slotted together as a series of interlocking wedges, forming a six-storey block,” the entry noted, adding that “Grafted on to the side of this block is a skewed crystalline volume that serves as the foyer to the complex. Fire-escape stairs run down the length of the cinema block behind a scaffolding-like grid. The raw concrete monolith of the cinema block provides an earth-bound foil for the dynamism and lightness of the glass foyer, in which ramps, stairs and bridges, some glazed, some enclosed by galvanized metal balustrades, carve irregular angular patterns through the space. A cafĂ© housed in a double inverted cone is suspended over the foyer, providing cinema-goers with dramatic views through the foyer and over the square.” architecture design pictures by

exterior UFA Cinema Center deconstruction architecture






November 1st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
please i am a student in architecture and i want to have information concerning UFA Cinema Center .please …contact me in my email
thanks
March 12th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
hi. my name is henry. i am also an architecture student (melbourne) searching desperately for plans and details of the UFA. did u ever find anything? any documentation you have, or websites you could recomend would really be appreciated.
regards
henry