Design and create cinemas

At the present time, a lot of people strive to find entertainment and spend the most enjoyable times with family and friends. Among the most sought-after places are the cinema. We will learn about how and the basics of designing and creating cinemas for the time being.

There is no doubt that engineers give it attention appropriate to the size of the demand for its creation and design, and to follow the appropriate standards and necessary to be a place to attract people to it as it is not like any ordinary building but rather is designed for a specific job, but it is the display, so these are buildings established to deal with the highest degrees of feeling, through what it provides In its designs of high-end art.

In general, two important points must be achieved when designing cinemas:
1- Achieve maximum comfort for the visitor in terms of ease of access to the building and the provision of waiting places.
2 – Achieve maximum comfort for the viewer in terms of appropriate visions of the screen and clear sound.

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Design criteria and basic components for cinemas:

1- Entrance:

• The visitor should feel the excitement, curiosity and excitement of entering the place and the entrances need to be clear and visible, as it is a transitional area between what is outside the building and what is inside, and there may be more than one entrance and exit to prevent crowding in the event of the end of the movie and exit from the hall,
• In any corner of the entrance, there is a place for selling tickets that should be clear to everyone, and it can also be placed in a central place.
• There must also be more than one emergency exit.

2- Entrance hall:

• A large square in which visitors gather and wait in preparation for entry to see the movie. This hall must not contain seats or tables in order not to impede the movement and gathering of visitors.
• The entrance hall should give an area of 2 m per person, keeping in mind that 1/6 the masses meet in this hall.

3- Hall (show place):

– The place where the movie is shown and watched, where the hall contains seating, screen and balcony accessed by stairs,

The size of the hall varies depending on the number of visitors’ seating places

Among the general criteria for the design of the hall:

• The shape of the projection is governed by the field of vision, which is wider than the stage and is usually in the form of a fan, a rectangle or a square,
• The optimal shape is to reduce the distance between the sound source and the rear seats by choosing the square shape of the projection and preferring it to the rectangular proportions to the extent that is appropriate for the lines of view.
• The economic arrangement of seats and interchanges in addition to the use of balconies reduces the distance to the last seats, but it is necessary to avoid acoustic shadows that may form under the balconies.
• The work of the balcony aims to reduce the distance between the screen and the farthest seat, which is what is preferred by the majority of viewers, and in cinemas only one balcony is permitted, but the regular theaters that are converted into a cinema are excluded from this.
• The free height under the balcony is 3 m and the depth of the balcony is 10 rows of corridor.
• The slope of the floor of the cinema hall, where it is preferable to work in places that are tilted as far as possible according to the condition of each hall, as this slope is less than in the case of theaters to provide clear lines of vision for each member of the audience.
• The seats should be raised so that the bottom side of the screen becomes visible from everywhere, and there are some new efforts that have led to the use of films in three dimensions, as the stereoscopic image transforms the reconfiguration of vision with two eyes without glasses and polarized so that it falls on the screen and that one image of the same item is taken from points Different views, as the viewer sees only one of them with each eye.
• Screen sizes must fit the hall sizes, and the screen has holes to allow sound to be delivered from the speakers behind it, which are about halfway through.
• The depth of the space behind the screen is 5 feet to hear the amplifier, and the vacuum surfaces must be made of sound absorbent materials. The screen is made of a plastic material and is painted to increase the reflection of sound, and its shape is double-lensed lenticular, and good visibility of the screen should be taken into consideration from any point and reduce intersections in vision through the location of the screen, the slope in the hall, and the distribution of seats.
• The first row of seats should not be too close to the screen so that the angle should be in the horizontal position from the top of the projected image to the viewer’s eye in the first row not to exceed 33 °.
• The width of the first row should be equal to the width of the screen, the width of the last row of seats equals 1.3 of the screen width, and the maximum distance between the screen and the last row equals twice the width of the screen.
• The corridors between the chairs should not be less than 34 inches, sometimes 40-42 inches.
• To reduce the frequency, the side walls should be of sound dispersible and have sound absorbent spaces, and the back wall should be made of absorbent and dispersed material, as well as the ceiling.
• Mosaic floors are preferred due to the high density, the lack of spaces and the material’s sound processing.
• The hall contains at least two windows or two doors that open on the outside to ensure regular ventilation, but artificial ventilation is necessary, and when designing the doors that open on the hall must be opened on the outside so that the total width of it is 2 m, and the permissible width may decrease To 1.5 m if the fixed section can be opened easily to the inside, and in the case of an automatic device, the doors remain open and there should not be any threshold in front of them because they open to the outside.

4- Drop rooms:

Each cinema contains the projection room and the necessary considerations for its design:

• The floor and walls shall be made of non-combustible materials, as well as doors, open to the outside and closed on their own.
• That this room be lighting naturally or by skylight.
• This room must be secured a direct exit or by a special staircase so that the width of the stairs is> 65 cm and it is equipped with handrails on the whole and the slope is 1/1.
• Room dimensions: room width and length> 2m, height> 2.8m, and room area in case one device is equal to 6m2 and above.
• The room contains the projector, and next to it is the control room that is separated from the projection room with a door.
• This room contains a film cabinet and ventilator and next to it is the control room.

5- The stairs:

• The movement of visitors should be easy so that a quick discharge of the hall without any obstruction permeates the crossings and foyer halls between the stairs and the hall, and it should be visible to all visitors, and it is made of materials that are not soluble by the effect of heat, especially the discharge stairs,
• The handrails are made of fire-resistant wood, and the width ranges between 1.25-2.5m. As for spiral drawers, they are only allowed rarely and for secondary uses only. The height of the pitch is <16 cm and its width> 30 cm. The width of the pitch in the spiral drawers is taken> 23 cm in the narrow place

 

6- Windows:

It consists of one or more movable sections, easily opened by a handle, the shutter width is> 35 cm, height is 1.25 cm, windows on the inner courtyard are surrounded by a metal frame and equipped with reinforced glass.

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