La Géode Cinema

Designed by archi­tect Adrien Fainsilber and engi­neer Gérard Chamayou to house the world’s lar­gest hemis­phe­ri­cal screen in 1985. 

The Geode, a geo­de­sic sphere 36 metres in dia­me­ter made up of 6,400 poli­shed steel tri­angles, houses a 1,000 m² and 26 m dia­me­ter screen dedi­ca­ted to OMNIMAX pro­jec­tions.

The room is com­ple­tely remo­del­led, around a new IMAX 4K 180° pro­jec­tion sys­tem, IMAX 6.0 sound and new 27m dia­me­ter hemis­phe­ri­cal for­mat screen and 24m wide IMAX Native for­mat, made up of 559 micro­per­fo­ra­ted alu­mi­num panels. 

Creating a new dichroic glass façade — Dichroic glass gives the façade a unique abi­lity to change colors, evol­ving accor­ding to the vie­wing angle, the inten­sity of the light, and the varia­tions in the time of day, crea­ting a cap­ti­va­ting and vivid kine­tic effect.

Creation of a new recep­tion expe­rience, with The enhan­ce­ment of archi­tec­tu­ral heri­tage through light: the illu­sion where light seems to pass natu­rally through the cof­fe­red cei­ling. With an immer­sive ins­tal­la­tion, the entrance hall becomes the sym­bio­sis bet­ween revea­led struc­tu­ral mate­rial and vir­tual image, video map­ping and spa­tia­li­zed sound ins­pi­red by the major cine­ma­to­gra­phic genres: fan­tasy, science fic­tion, adven­ture.