Star wars

"space" home cinema

Passing the gallery

Text: Kirill Bessonov

Materials: - (c) Mike Dillon

Magazine: Technol. N10 (99) 2005

If you dreamed of having your own spacecraft in your childhood, and as an adult you retained the ability to enjoy toys and gifts, then the “space” home cinema with automatic sliding doors and portholes instead of windows is what you need The American couple Vic Weertz and Lisa Stevens have equipped such a cinema in their home. It all started when Lisa brought home the figure Boba Fett - the character of the film "Return of the Jedi." Vic recalled his long-time, at that time somewhat forgotten hobby - collecting everything connected with George Lukas' cult epic. The collection quickly filled one of the guest bedrooms and began to crawl all over the house. At the same time, Vick and Lisa met Stephen Sansweet, director of fan club relations at Lucasfilm, who owns a personal museum with the world's largest collection of Star Wars worlds. It was the Sansvit home museum that inspired Vika and Lisa to create an interior in which it was possible to exhibit their rather big collection. But they wanted to make more than just a few boring “museum” rooms with Star Wars posters on the walls. They dreamed of a home theater in the style of their favorite movie, they wanted their cinema to be non-standard. And they did it. Since the cinema was created from scratch, the architect was able to implement a bold idea. He abandoned the traditional rectangular plan and designed the hall in the form of a wedge, which allowed to minimize the echo. The author managed to create a space with the smallest number of parallel surfaces, so the acoustics in it approached the ideal one. At the next stage of construction, Wertz invited Dag Chang, the chief art director of the Hidden Threat and the Attack of the Clones films, as a designer. Weertz noted that this was, apparently, the best choice, since no one would have coped with the task better than the man who worked on the interiors in the new films. The interior, created by Chang, combines three themes - the Star of Death station from the first Star Wars, Princess Amidala's ship from The Hidden Threat and the captain bridge of the imperial ships from the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes. Chang’s sketches were processed on a computer, and working drawings were created on the basis of the resulting three-dimensional model. Then the company in its own factory fully built the interior of the cinema from acoustic panels and decorative elements. Specialists in acoustics have made changes to the finished interior in order to achieve the perfect sound. Then the finished interior was disassembled and reassembled in the customers' house.

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