Cinemax Auditorium Design Portfolio

AUDITORIUM

DESIGN

PORTFOLIO

10/07/2021

Nested in the heart of the administration and culture city of Mumbai, Shivaji Park. Cinemax – Visual Arts & Performing Arts Auditorium is a multi-performance venue where users’ experiences and social participation are priorities. Functions include a 375 seats auditorium, a cinema, a convention hall, performing arts, theater performance and exhibition spaces.

This portfolio includes design starting from civil changes to final rendered views.

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The sculptural volume of the building indicates the interior program to passersby outside, allowing the theatre act as a stage in its own right. A grand stair where a featured garden integrates into the building leads up to the theatre lobby. From there, guests may continue go to the main auditorium balcony.

Cinemax – Visual Arts & Performing Arts Auditorium is designed to be a public space that encourages interact and participation throughout the day. The entrance opens up to the streets allowing passers-by and residents to peer into the building, catering moments of the interaction between art and daily life.

The irregular form of the facade, made up of light golden aluminum panels and glass curtain wall, created a powerful visual impact.

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As the building’s appearance is one key point of design, circulation and traffic control are also important considerations.

Different from the traditional public spaces, it emphasizes on the composition of spatial relationships between the performance and community spaces.

Based on the program, each function should perform individually while have connections with each other.

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Another limitation for horizontal viewing angle may be given by the screen type, especially when high gain screens are used. The observed luminance on the screen decreases when the viewing angle increases.

And it is more critical with higher gain screens. With silver screens, the maximum viewing angle must be much lower than 45° (see illustration in the Screen Surfaces chapter above). Harkness Screens has for instance made a Digital Screen Modeller (calculator) that can be used to find acceptable seating area for various of their screen models, available on their web site.

In a cinema, everyone should see the whole picture. To achieve that, the auditorium must be designed to give acceptable sightline clearance from every seat. It is common to use 1200mm as reference height from floor to eye for a seated person.

Tip-up seats, fixed seat and rockers usually have similar seat width that varies with the width of the armrest (50-150mm) and can be mounted with shared armrest or double armrests.

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Seat width: 500-750 (sharing armrests), 650-900mm (double armrests). Recliners usually have wider seats and wider armrests, shared or double. Seat width 650-900mm (or more).

A relaxed, seated person will look 15° downward. The comfortable viewing zone is +/-15° relative to this sightline.

Such conditions are almost never achievable in a cinema auditorium.

However, chairs with head rest and recliners can improve comfort, especially on the first rows.

If all the risers have equal heights, the sightline clearance decreases with increasing distance from the screen. To obtain acceptable sightline from the last rows, the risers might have to be very high, and the total height of the stadium construction will become very high. That will again lead to a larger projection angle and increased keystone. The sound reproduction will also suffer from this.

The best solution is to design individual riser heights for each row, calculated to give equal sightline clearance for every row. Alternatively, use lower riser heights for the first group of rows, larger for the next group, etc.

The maximum picture width limits the distance from the first row to the screen on a 2.39:1 screen. On a 1.85:1 screen, both the maximum picture height and width might represent limitations. Sitting too close to the screen, the human visual system will not be able to perceive all the action on the screen and it will not be possible to recognise symbols and read subtitles with only minor head movements. The result is often a reduced cinema-going experience.

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The vegetation mainly consists of forests in the eastern region and the Sahyadri Ranges,the Satpura Ranges and the Chandrapur region. Shrub jungles pre-dominate the plateaux.

The coastal region of the Konkan Coast has paddy fields as the vegetation. The coastal belt consists of eminent trees like the mango and the coconut and shrubs.

The Climate of Mumbai is a tropical, wet and dry climate. Mumbai's climate can be best described as moderately hot with high level of humidity. Its coastal nature and tropical location ensure temperatures do not fluctuate much throughout the year.

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