Etoile多厅电影院的建造提供了一个思考的文化建筑的机会：如何定义它们的形态和功能，以及如何将它们融入未来的城市、建筑、社会和历史环境。该项目是法国Béthune市借由“智慧城市”标签提出的区域发展计划的一部分，它引发了关于“如何向观众展示建筑”、“如何运用以及运用何种建筑设备来使观众对自己产生积极感受”等类似问题的考量。受到William Klein在1958年的作品《灯光下的百老汇》（Broadway by light）的启发，设计团队试图将“变形的表演”（transfiguring performance）作为项目的核心概念。

To build the multiplex Etoile Cinémas was the opportunity to think about issues of shapes and purposes of cultural architectures and how to incorporate them into an urban, architectural, social, and historical environment to come. At the beginning of an urban operation, the project is part of the local development policy initiated by the city via the label SmartCity. It led to considerations on how an architecture may show off the spectator and on how and with which architectural devices one may reflect a positive feeling of himself in the spectator. Inspired by Broadway by light by William Klein (1958), we centered the project on the key concept of a transfiguring performance.

▼电影院外观，exterior view ©Luc Boegly

新的影院被构想为一个文化与社交的焦点。这一点可以从其置入城市的方式中解读出来：建筑位于一个巨大且开阔的庭院，面对着通往火车站的大道。5600平方米的地块处于一个战略性的位置，毗邻火车站和市中心所在的主要交通轴线。新的电影院就坐落在平坦的空地中央，其外部被钢铁与灯光围绕。建筑内部一共容纳了9间影厅，旨在成为促进互动的文化场所，为人们带来沉浸式的观影体验。

We wanted the new multiplex to become a cultural and social pole. One can read these architectural intentions from the implantation of the building, facing the avenue coming from the train station on a vast open courtyard. The 5600㎡ lot to build was a strategical place located near major axis of circulation (train, city center, etc.). Now on the esplanade stands a 9-cinemas multiplex, made of steel and light, which aim is to become a cultural site build for interactions, where to live a full immersive cinematographic experience.

▼南立面，south facade ©Luc Boegly

作为城市中显著的交流和聚会场所，影院不断回应着各种实践的发展。这要得益于其富有吸引力的、宏伟富丽且戏剧化的建筑特征，以及与之相配的娱乐和休闲空间。所有的元素共同构成了一个戏剧性的维度。在这个维度中，场所的功能性、适应性、便捷性和吸引力都得以展现出来。

建筑犹如一块形态优雅的巨石出现在Lens大道的拐角处，呈现出一种当代城市风格。它后退于街道并斜向地面对着作为人流交汇处的广场，这样的布局能够引导人们向电影院的入口迈进，同时给人以一种恰到好处的、动态的魅力。朝向前场的主立面以玻璃围合，将人们的目光吸引进来，同时也将室内的场景带往室外。

▼建筑犹如一块形态优雅的巨石出现在Lens大道的拐角处 ©Luc Boegly at the bend of Avenue de Lens, the building appears, a refined monolith with a contemporary urban style

The cinema was to be a new place of exchange and meeting, identifiable in the urban landscape and responding to these evolving practices. So it is thanks to its welcoming, theatrical and opulent architecture, and to the development of suitable spaces of conviviality. Everything contributes to a theatrical dimension from which the functionality, adaptability, ease of use and attractiveness of the place derive.

At the bend of Avenue de Lens, the building appears, a refined monolith with a contemporary urban style. Its location, set back from the street and obliquely, opens on a square that is a crossroads of flows directing walkers to the cinema, and infuses it with an incisive and attractive dynamism. The porosity of the main glazed facade, open to the forecourt, draws the gaze inward and calls to pass from the inside to the outside.

▼外部楼梯，the external staircase ©Luc Boegly