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Cinema De Riom

CINEMA DE RIOM

Tracks

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

ARCHITECTS
Tracks

PHOTOGRAPHS
Guillaume Amat

AREA
1028.0 m2

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Riom, France

CATEGORY
Cinema

Text description provided by architect.

The new multi-cinema project takes place in the future site of the “Jardin de la Culture” close to the historical city center of Riom.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

Once this cultural enclosure, was the “Redemptoristine convent’s garden”.

Nowadays, this new program offers: a multimedia library project, a music school (reconversion of old convent) and the cinema project.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

For this project, we have worked in collaboration with the communes’s community of Riom Limagne et Volcans and Frédéric Emile, the operator.

This project consists in 3 cinema’s room with 543 seats and a 112 seats conference room. A first volume borrows his height from the wall of the existing enclosure.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

Constitutive of the existing wall, “Volvic stone” offers a material available to be reused as large aggregates for the concrete of the outer sails of the first low volume.

Treated in a dark hue, the facade will be finally bushed partially, at variable heights letting reappear in his mass, the stone fragments of the old wall evoking traditional masonry.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

The facade thus marks the footprints of a new history of the place and reinterprets in a contemporary way the use of a local identity material, by having their aesthetic dialogue.

A second volume with marked scale and proportions, imposes itself as an urban signal above the seat orchestrated by the wall.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

A concrete white monolith dyed in the mass comes to take support on the ground, by an apparent fragility, on a succession of arches, in front of the “Jardin de la Culture” and the “couvent des Redemptoristines”.

This identity strengthens the fantasized image of a cloister around the large plant parvis.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

This volumetric division in foot opens generously the large gallery of the cinema hall to the outside.

The invitation is made: Go through these monumental doors, bathing this living space with light.

A large exhibition hall, offers a majestic input volume. This one opens very largely on the “Jardin de la Culture”. 

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat

This generous and continuous space is extended by a covered outdoor gallery perforated by the arches.

To access at movie theater, the spectator borrows a hallway, which is articulated around the conference room. 

This plan’s organization manage viewers flows by proposing a quality path around the topic of the cinema’s world.

Cinema De Riom
© Guillaume Amat
Cinema De Riom


Cinema De Riom
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