a small cinema in a city apartment Ekaterina Kuznetsova

Passing the gallery

A photo: Konstantin Dubovec

Text: Julia Sakharova, Ilya Kvashnin

Stylist: Julia Krugovova

Designer: Ekaterina Kuznetsova

Magazine: Technological N10 (88) 2004

In this apartment you can come several times, but never notice that it has a home theater. The tiny room into which the door leads from the living room does not attract attention at all. Thanks to reliable sound insulation Good sound insulation of this room was the main requirement of the owners. They wanted the sound to not be heard in any of the rooms, even in the next living room. So that everything was just like that, a double door was arranged between the living room and the cinema. The walls and ceiling are covered with soundproofing materials. Drywall covering the walls and ceiling, and woolen carpet on the floor additionally quench the sound. However, due to the layers of soundproofing, the ceiling fell heavily, and the wall thickness doubled. The area of ​​the room, already small, has significantly decreased due to these transformations. This created a new problem, because large plasma and cramped rooms are “two incompatible things”, like genius and villainy. Everyone already knows that the distance between the image on the screen and the viewer must be at least twice as large as the diagonal of the screen. Therefore, in small rooms, large screens are not installed. The installers and the architect got out of trouble by placing the plasma panel in one corner of the room, and the sofa for the audience in the other. Due to this, the distance between them was 3.5 meters. That is almost one and a half times more than it would be if they were installed on opposite walls. This allowed, despite the tiny size of the cinema, to order for him a plasma panel of solid size. Let this contrast and unexpected, but who will argue that the laws of the genre prescribe a secret room to be an unusual place.