Texas nautilus

private home theater, recreating the interior of Captain Nemo's underwater home

Passing the gallery

Text: Anton Ivanov

Materials: - (c) Mike Dillon

Magazine: Technol. N10 (99) 2005

In 2004, the design company DILLON WORKS (USA) completed its new project - the private home cinema "Nautilus". Its interior recreates the underwater home of Captain Nemo from the Disney film “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, based on the famous novel by Jules Verne.

The last two decades, the company DILLON WORKS Inc. specializes in the development of complex, non-standard architectural structures. Among its projects are private shops, casinos, amusement parks and exhibition centers. Designers and designers of the company are widely known in the United States and outside the country for their work for such large clients as Walt Disney Studios, Microsoft, IKEA, Sony Play Station. Moreover, if you need to create something extraordinary for a private interior, they also get great. With humor and fantasy. In Nautilus, the fantasy is so convincing that it seems you literally hit the TV and are in a cartoon. Least of all at this moment are you thinking about how complicated the work of its creators was. In the meantime, this is true. For example, some parts of the interior of the cinema - the ceiling, wall panels - were made at the DILLON WORKS factory in Seattle for six months. Only then they were transported to Texas and assembled into one design. As conceived by the architects, this cinema hall is designed to completely immerse the film enthusiast in the atmosphere of the old, rusty steel Nautilus, which has corroded over the long years. It is no coincidence that an old diving suit was set up in a visible place, and on the walls they set up portholes, as if opening a view of the gloomy depths of the cold ocean. The wide screen as if turns into a viewing window in the submarine, the film projector into the periscope (its designers have built in the periscope tower). A special, truly Disney coloring for the Texas Nautilus is given by small décor elements, such as Captain Nemo's copper telescope, which, by the way, is forgotten on the shelf for the ship's magazine. To fully comply with the film on the walls of the hall strengthened massive metal structures. They do not distort the sound at all - its clarity and clarity are provided by the original speaker system. In addition, soft lining on the walls, carpet and velvet chairs absorb resonant vibrations, so that nothing like a booming echo in the metal walls of the "submarine" does not occur. Cinema lighting is also "underwater". The main light comes from a dozen bright shades, but in addition to them among the pipes and metal beams stretched across the ceiling, the designers hid another, dimmer lamp resembling the emergency lighting of a ship. This creates the effect of sad loneliness, a feeling of abandonment in the bottomless depths of the oceans.

Projector InFocus 7200 DLPProjection screen Screen Research ClearPix2Tv tuner TiVO HR10-250 HDTV / DirecTV Receiver LG LSS-3200ASVHS recorder JVC HRS-5902 Controller AMX NI-3000Touch control panel AMX MVP-7500Multizone receiver Kenwood Sovereign VR5900CD-changer Kenwood Sovereign DV5900 Cd player PioneerBuilt-in speakers Ruark Acoustics Solus Subwoofer NHT U2

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