cinema-multiplex "Five Stars" in Moscow Melik Karapetyan The space of the cinema "Five Stars", made in the aesthetics of the neorealism of Italian cinema

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Зара Шахбазян

Architect-designer: Melik Karapetyan

Constructor: Miridjanyan

Magazine: N4 (60) 2002

Going to the cinema has become fashionable. Especially when new-generation cinemas appeared, equipped at the level of world standards. One of these new-fangled “dandies”, the cinema-multiplex “Five Stars”, opened recently in the center of Moscow, on Bakhrushina Street, 25. Together with the customer, it was determined that this should be not just a multiplex cinema, but a place for family entertainment. where the main thing, naturally, is film screening. So, the creation of such an environment, where the audience - big and small - could feel involved in the game, in the celebration of childhood, creating a place where the reality of today would intertwine with the magic of cinema. Therefore, it was so important to combine the four floors: this single motive was a powerful vertical - a patio, a patio. As a result, all four levels of the cinema are viewed equally well, all the rooms are equally "involved" in the festive event, everywhere there is an illusion that you are at the same time in cafes, restaurants and the amphitheater ... By the two existing floors were added two: the basement floor was significantly expanded and deepened and the attic was "mastered". Bridges, squares, "shopping streets", brick walls, lighted storefronts, a waterfall - all these elements of urban planning make it possible to perceive the space as a fragment of some festively decorated city, where a grandiose carnival is expected very soon. The game, which is based on dialogue and irony, contrast and personification. Playing with a capital letter is not only the core of the project concept, but also the tool that the author actively uses. Another stylistic game is the contrast between the warm picturesqueness of old brick and the cold sterility of chromed metal and glass. The "real-life" amphitheater and bar in the ice-cream parlor is also a game. The stylistic design largely "quotes" the aesthetics of neorealism in Italian cinema. But quoting was not the main task for the author of the project. All the different elements create the overall atmosphere of the interior, where the perception is calculated on the game. A huge propeller has become a peculiar decoration, the perpetuum mobile is a symbol of eternity. The rotating blades are nothing but hardware, and everyone can observe the work of the projectionist. Above the "city beehive" makes a "world tour" around the cinema a miniature train from the times of the Wild West exploration. The new complex housed not only five cinema halls (the Chaplin, Gaben, Kurosawa, Ptushko halls and, of course, Rolan, because one of the main organizers of the cinema is the Rolan Bykov Foundation), but also bars and cafes , small shops. For children on the fourth floor provides an entertainment town where you can leave the child, while parents will enjoy the spectacle of "the most important of all arts", and, quite simply, to watch a movie. But it is better to go to the cinema all together: in the morning there are sessions of children's films. So film fans - both big and small - will not remain offended. Kinomaniya returned to Russia, film continues.