Saturday 21 April 2012

Floating Drive-In Theater

Photos by Piyatat Hemmatat, (c) Studio-OS

fastcodesign.comAmidst the rocky shoreline of Yao Noi, Thailand, a group of avid filmgoers were delivered by boat to an outdoor pavilion floating in the middle of a quiet lagoon for an original movie screening.

The event was organized by Film on the Rocks Yao Noi which commissioned architect Ole Scheeren to build what he came to call the Archipelago Cinema, a large raft built out of recycled materials.

Guests were taken by boat through the darkness of the sea to 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.

Following its debut, Archipelago Cinema was dismantled and donated to the village where it was built, for use as a playground and floating theater.

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