Busan cinema center

Introduction
With the aim of placing the city of Busan on the world map the
Korean government decided in 2005 to organize an international
competition to design the new headquarters of the Busan
International Film Festival (BIFF). The projects goal was twofold,
and that should serve both to become an icon of the city as to bring
the BIFF among the 3 most important film festivals in the world
attracting an important branch of revenue for the city. The contest
was won by the Austrian study Coop Himmelb (l) au, led by Worl D.
Prix.

In 2008 work began on the building that was opened three years
later, on September 29, 2011, during the sixteenth edition of the
festival.

Location
Busan is posited as the second largest city with approximately 3.7
million inhabitants.

The complex is located in the neighborhood of U-Dong.

Concept
Working always with the aim of providing the city of Busan with a
piece of iconic architecture that would go around the world like he
did in his day the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the study Coop
Himmelb (l) au design opted for a risky, so risky that not only capture
the attention of all the criticism for their aesthetic beauty, but also go
into the Guinness Book of Records for having the worlds largest
cantilever to date.
As a whole the complex aims to redefine the traditional relationship
between public spaces, private, culture and technology, making
them all live in harmony not as separate elements but as part of a
complete project.

Visitors can move from a closed to an open space without realizing

it, sometimes develop the same activity. As in a conventional
museum happen to a room above the Busan Cinema Center tours
are blurred and merge with the city, the idea of blurring boundaries
between public and private, between when the show begins and
ends.

For its part the underside of the large overhang that covers the
public square was designed as a rolling cloud that breaks the
straight lines instead of the city and transform the building itself on
canvas on which to project their content. A work by the changing
nature of art will not be the same way twice.

Spaces
The complex has 10 apartments in total, 9 above ground plus a
basement. A total of 55,000 square meters built a house a series of
buildings with various functions.

The main building known as Cinema Mountain, a multipurpose

entertainment center and three multiple theaters and the BIFF Hill
with the Executive Office of BIFF and the Double Cone .

On the ground floor is a cafe, while at higher levels there is a

restaurant, bar and lounge overlooking the river. During the film
festival, this space serves as a VIP entrance and can also be used
as a setting for events related to it.

The Mountain Cinema (Film Mountain) is a multifunctional building,

which contains a theater with seating for 1000 people, as well as
three movie theaters. Two of them can seat 200 spectators each,
while the third can fit 400. Theater tickets and movie theaters are
independent.

The BIFF Hill (Loma del BIFF) was created with the functional needs
of the festival in mind. Composed of a convention center, a visual
arts center and offices for the organizers, on one side that leans the
platform will serve to set the audience to attend open-air cinema.
Thanks to the flexible organization can adapt to different uses to
operate and be efficient in day to day operation.
The Double Cone, which is in turn the only column that supports the
large roof that covers the square, housed inside the press center of
the BIFF.

Outdoor functions are projected onto the east face of Mountain

Cinema. The space in front of him, where the grandstand with a
capacity of 4 000 people, is called Valley Urban (Urban Valley).
Everything is provided for these events, and even is expected to be
able to use the backstage of the theater, located there.

Structure
The structural solution designed for this project is based on a
combination of concrete and steel.

The solid blocks of all leading to the interior spaces materialize in

concrete reinforced with metal plates alternate ending with a fully
glazed faade.

The large cantilevered roofs are uncoated steel in concrete, as this

would increase the weight of the structure in excess can contribute
virtually no tensile stresses to which each part is submitted.

To logara cover an area of 60120 feet with a clearance of 85 (the

worlds largest cantilever to date), we used a three-dimensional
structure of steel beams that form a series of trusses connected to
each other and in turn the pillar that supports them continuously.
Materials
The main materials used in the project are the concrete and steel
structural elements and glass plates and stone veneer for exterior
finishes.

The cantilevered deck has in turn with an installation-art LEDs

bottom that allows the building to transform itself into a visual
spectacle.