Inside Festival 2015: One Plus Partnership co-founder Virginia Lung explains how the interior design firm created a cinema that looks like a disaster scene from a science-fiction movie (+ movie).

One Plus Partnership's Exploded cinema in Wuhan, China, won the Civic, Culture and Transport category at Inside Festival 2015.
The Hong Kong-based interior design firm arranged angular blocks in different sizes and materials to create the impression that a huge explosion had taken place in the space.

"We have all of these rectangular boxes at different scales for different spaces," Lung explains in our latest movie from Inside Festival. "We wanted to create a big explosion. You can see all of these columns and pillars, they seem like they are falling apart."
Lung says that the idea was to create a space that feels like it could be from a science-fiction film.

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"It has this futuristic look and we wanted to bring it to the extreme and make it really surreal," she explains. "We used black and white because we want customers to focus on the form rather than a fancy colour."

One Plus Partnership used large boxes to create the ticket booths, while smaller angled blocks were used to make everything from seating areas to washbasins.
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