CINEMAXX Odense

Jentz • Popp • Roloff • Wiesner

Movie Center
Danmark - Odense
 
completion 1999
BGF 2.800 qm
 

The new Cinemaxx movie center in Odense city center completes the town-planning structure of the urban block by closing a gap between buildings. As a counterpart to the main station, the movie center offers an important urban flank to the central square. The triangular floor plan, determined by the exterior street formation thrusts its apex so far forward that the building functions as a clear boundary to the square. Public areas like the entrance-hall, foyer and movie bar are located inside this triangle. 

Seven halls of different sizes are accessible from the foyer. On the upper level, the movie bar is deliberately arranged as the building’s meeting- and look-out point. The cascade-shaped lowering ceiling zooms across both bar and foyer areas, orientating them towards the urban central square. A public zone, designed in different red and amber tones, draws the attention of passers-by at night to the illuminated façade, enticing people into the cinema or the sky bar.