O H . N O . S U M O

Hey everyone, We’ll be speaking at the next DINZ...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:35:46 +1200

Hey everyone, We’ll be speaking at the next DINZ Designer’s speak this Wednesday 17th April. Our talk will be on the Stairway Cinema project. This will be the first time we have spoken about this installation so I’m looking forward to it.

http://www.dinz.org.nz/Events/2013/April/48588

Thanks to the team at PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA, DISEÑO E...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:10:00 +1200

Thanks to the team at PASAJES DE ARQUITECTURA, DISEÑO E INNOVACIÓN (Passages of Architecture design and innovation) for featuring the Stairway Cinema in their April issue.

Pasajes is a bilingual publication which has several sections: News, Building Analysis, Art works, Interviews, Brief Essays, Exhibitions,Design and Books.

Have a look at their cool website: www.pasajesarquitectura.com

- - Elle Decor Italia - - October 2012pg 97 Photo by Simon...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:26:00 +1300

- - Elle Decor Italia - -

October 2012
pg 97

Photo by Simon Devitt

- - Urbis - - Issue 68, 2012pg 14,15 Photo by Simon Devitt -...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:33:00 +1200

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Issue 68, 2012
pg 14,15

Photo by Simon Devitt

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THANK YOU NICOLE !

Oh.No.Sumo would like to wish Nicole Stock all the best as she comes to the end of her time at Urbis and moves on to bright new things. Nicole was one of our most staunch supporters right from the beginning, being instrumental in providing opportunities to present our work to a wider audience. We’d like to thank her for all of her support and we wish her luck for her new adventures!

- - STAIRWAY CINEMA - - Stairway Cinema is the third major...

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:39:07 +1200

- - STAIRWAY CINEMA - -

Stairway Cinema is the third major installation by OH.NO.SUMO. Our ongoing goal is to experiment with architecture and the way it can engage with the public in unique and exciting ways. This project takes inspiration from the site and its inhabitants. The intersection of Symonds Street and Mount Street is a place of ‘hard waiting’. Bus stops and laundromats create a hard-scape of poor space for social interaction. Members of the public retreat individually into the media offered on their mobile phones. This in turn results in greater separation and dislocation from an existing community that is waiting to be activated. A community must be linked not only virtually but also physically.

Stairway Cinema offers a very simple programmatic response to recognise and counter this larger issue. Short movies previously shared online, are projected for the public to enjoy, offering similar media to that sought out on their phones. The individual experience is exchanged for the communal and social, leading to a shared, fun and architecturally framed experience. Movies are collected from internet recommendations that have been shared by the public through social media. The public curate this virtual collection of media continuously and the cinema captures current trends and highlights within this realm. Stairway Cinema uses architecture as a way of engaging in a discussion about curatorial practice, urbanism and the role of Architects as place-makers and provocateurs.

The structure is a slender timber truss made from 24x24mm pine members. Covering this frame is a triple skin system of fabric that provides a waterproof exterior, a dappled light effect and a soft tactile interior surface. Sited above an existing exterior stairway the fabric and timber hood creates a new interior within the public realm; a space that is free to enter and welcomes all. The interior, softened with custom made cushions, offers a repurposed seating tier. Over the entrance video content is projected onto the screen at the cantilevered end of the structure.

CURATORIAL SEASON

Stairway Cinema was part of St PAUL ST GALLERY’s Curatorial Season 2012 organised by SPSG Assistant Director Vera Mey.

For more information about the season please visit - http://www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz/articulate-feb-apr/curatorial

Photo by Simon Devitt