Archipelago Cinema / Buro Ole Scheeren + Film on the​ Rocks Yao Noi Foundation

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Thung Khao Luang, Thailand

Text description provided by the architects. The final night of the first edition of Film on the Rocks Yao Noi took place on Archipelago Cinema, designed by German-born and Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren. Guests were taken by boat through the darkness of the sea to arrive on a glowing raft in the middle of the quiet waters of Nai Pi Lae lagoon on Kudu Island. Surrounded by a dramatic landscape of towering rocks emerging from the ocean, the audience experienced an atmospheric convergence of nature and cinematic narratives - primordial notions of light, sound and stories suspended in the darkness between sea and sky.

Archipelago Cinema / Buro Ole Scheeren + Film on the​ Rocks Yao Noi Foundation - Waterfront, Coast
Courtesy of Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Foundation

“The thought of watching films here seemed surprising,“ said Ole Scheeren. „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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A work with a strong connection to the local community, Archipelago Cinema is based on the techniques used by fishermen to construct floating lobster farms. The raft is built out of recycled materials as a series of individual modules to allow for flexibility for its future use. Subsequent to a journey which will see the raft travel to further places as an auditorium for other film screenings on water, it will eventually return to the island and be donated to its actual builders, the community of Yao Noi, as its own playground and stage in the ocean.

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Cite: "Archipelago Cinema / Buro Ole Scheeren + Film on the​ Rocks Yao Noi Foundation" 17 Apr 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/226936/archipelago-cinema-buro-ole-scheeren-film-on-the%25e2%2580%258b-rocks-yao-noi-foundation> ISSN 0719-8884

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