Armenian architectural studio SNKH has created a pop-up cinema informed by Bedouin tents outside the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Named the Garage Screen, the pop-up cinema was built in Garage Square of Moscow's Gorky Park, directly opposite the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art which was designed by Dutch studio OMA.
SNKH's temporary structure will host a programme of Russian and international films. The studio's design, which was selected from 136 submissions in an open competition, directly references the building's temporary nature.

The studio described the structure as an "inverted Bedouin tent", with the cinema enclosed within a PVC membrane hung from an external steel frame.
The building, which has the majority of its structure placed on the outside, also references the high-tech architecture of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano.
SNKH also aimed to ensure that the temporary building would not fight for attention with the OMA-designed museum it stands near.

"As it is a temporary structure we thought that we could deal with the location in an easier manner," said Snkhchyan.
"The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is very dominant on the square. We knew that our project should not be 'noisy', but at the same time, it should be bold. We hope we've managed to achieve that effect."

"Fortunately, our design had very useful advantages in these circumstances: the pavilion has four entrances which allows us to organise the fl...