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The cinema, from behind the back row, looking at a wide screen showing a misty valley at dawn. The walls are midnight blue fabric washed by soft grazer lights, and the ceiling is the same blue with hundreds of tiny fibre-optic stars. Five recliners in dark leather sit in a row on the lower level, and in the foreground a deep dark sofa sits on a raised tier, its front edge picked out by a warm step light. Dark fabric panels frame the screen at each side. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the stars are still lit while the film plays, where the drawings have them dim to nothing when it starts.

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Cinema

A midnight blue fabric room for ten under a fibre-optic star ceiling, with five recliners, a sofa on a raised tier and a 4.5 m screen that hides behind fabric panels.

The card

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The notes

rendered

The cinema is 70 m², sunk about 0.7 m below the ground floor at the stone end of the house, with 3.4 m inside. It is a sealed box-in-box room on rubber mounts, so no sound reaches the bedroom above. The lobby, wine room and AV room add another 40 m².

room

A dark fabric screening room. The walls are midnight blue acoustic fabric over absorbent panels, and the ceiling is the same blue with hundreds of tiny fibre-optic stars that dim to nothing when the film starts.

seating

Ten seats. Five recliners sit at the front, about 4.5 m back from the screen, with a deep sofa on the raised back tier. All are in soft charcoal leather that disappears into the blue.

screen

A 4.5 m projector screen fills the south wall, with the speakers behind it. It hides behind sliding fabric panels, so with nothing playing the room reads as a quiet lounge.

lighting

Soft grazers wash light down the fabric walls, and warm step lights glow along the tier edge. Everything fades to dark when the film starts.

lobby

The lobby has a small bar, with a stone-walled wine room and a small AV room behind it. The AV room holds the projector kit, the servers and the security hub.

The plates

1 · lift any one out
The cinema, from behind the back row, looking at a wide screen showing a misty valley at dawn. The walls are midnight blue fabric washed by soft grazer lights, and the ceiling is the same blue with hundreds of tiny fibre-optic stars. Five recliners in dark leather sit in a row on the lower level, and in the foreground a deep dark sofa sits on a raised tier, its front edge picked out by a warm step light. Dark fabric panels frame the screen at each side. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the stars are still lit while the film plays, where the drawings have them dim to nothing when it starts.
01 · The cinema