Moving Image Gallery

A moving image (movie) gallery located in the heart of Surabaya City that focus on "motion" concept to bringback the memory of old film city, revive the site, & respond local creative industry. The design present an Iconic building but not dominate the site,remains open, transparent, and support interaction with surrounding environment as an active public space.

SITE
Surabaya is the second biggest city in Indonesia. In early times, movie become a mayor entertainment for teenager and family. Therefore many cinema built in that time. However the ex cinema building now become abandon and the history fade away. Therfore this design fit in the site which is surrounded by a lot of concervation (colonial) building such as Ex Cinema Indra, Ex Cinema Mitra, and Pemuda Center.

MOTION
As a process of creating movie, "Motion" become a magical process to transform a death picture become a life picture. The design dominated with vertical flat plan to represent layers in movie and naturally display the ilussion of motion depend of human perpective. T Located near the node, gives advantage to the citizen to experiencing differences expression of the building while moving.

MOVING PIXEL
Pixel as the basic order of moving picture using two or more stimuli that are switched on and off in alternation to create a moving perception without actually move. (phi-phenomenon).
Using this method in Architecture can make a STATIC building become more DINAMIC in human eye. The light box in the design looks like moving in smaller box while we moving. People/Citizen can recognize easily the building as a moving image gallery