Archipelago Cinema by Ole Schereen

This ones a bit old, but always worth a mention for it's sheer brilliance in creating a full experience...

Beijing based designer Ole Scheeren’s ‘Archipelago Cinema’ is a floating cinema situated in the clear waters of Nai Pi Lae lagoon on Kudu Island in Thailand for the ‘Film on the Rocks Yao Noi’ festival earlier in March(2012), offering a refreshing new take on the outdoor cinema experience. The floating cinema consists of a floating screen, situated between two rocks, allowing the cinema to conform to the natural geographic flow of its surroundings. Completing the structure is a separate raft-like auditorium furnished with bean bags. The floating cinema offers up a uniquely primal and mysteriously exotic cinematic experience on the grandest scale. Schereen poetically describes the project as “A screen, nestled somewhere between the rocks. And the audience…floating…hovering above the sea, somewhere in the middle of this incredible space of the lagoon, focused on the moving images across the water: a sense of temporality, randomness, almost like driftwood. Or maybe something more architectural: modular pieces, loosely assembled, like a group of little islands that congregate to form an auditorium.” The Archipelago cinema pays homage to the local vernacular by adopting techniques used by local fishermen to construct floating lobster farms. After the festival, the Archipelago Cinema will be dismantled and donated to the local community at Yao Noi, this is made possible by its being crafted out of prefabricated materials and unique modular construction. Schereen's floating cinema will make a splash again at the 14th Biennale de Venzezia Architecture Exhibition next year.