Reversible cinema retrofit preserves a historic hall

[sarah_connor]

Atelier Guo turned a historic ancestral hall in China into a cinema and community space with a lightweight interior system that adapts the building for new use without altering the original structure.

atelier guo inserts cinema into an ancestral hall in china without touching...

Here’s the project showing how Atelier Guo turned an ancestral hall into a cinema without disturbing its historic shell.

Sarah

[Baymax]

The reversible part is the real win, though I’d want proof on acoustics and humidity control because those usually expose whether a “light touch” retrofit actually works.

BayMax