Project 04 — 2026 · LEARN — MAKE — EXHIBIT

Film Academy and Studio Lots

Brick sound stages and a glass-roofed entrance at the edge of a forest

Programme: Teaching spaces, indoor and outdoor stages, set and costume workshops
Public spaces: Festival grounds, open-air cinema, exhibition spaces
Cinema: 253 seats
Reference films: Shutter Island · Pride & Prejudice

A campus that turns filmmaking into a route to experience.

Organised around the three stages of filmmaking — Learn, Make and Exhibit — this film campus brings teaching, production and public life together. Each function has its own place on the site, and the classrooms, sound stages and festival grounds are tied together by shared spaces and thresholds that carry you from one to the next.

Buildings and open spaces follow one another as a single route, so visitors can watch and take part in every stage of making a film on one continuous journey through the campus.

Three stages

Learn

Teaching spaces for screenwriting, acting, film studies and workshops.

Make

Indoor and outdoor sound stages, set and costume workshops, and production spaces.

Exhibit

Festival grounds, an open-air cinema and spaces for exhibitions and events — where finished work meets its audience.

Thresholds

A raised walkway and courtyard between the brick stages — Courtyard between the stages

Entrance canopy on concrete columns beneath a brick volume — Entrance canopy

Film and space

Shutter Island

The film’s closed, controlled spaces heighten its sense of isolation and uncertainty; corridors, passages and restricted views build the tension. That spatial character shaped a more enclosed, controlled shooting environment in the project.

Pride & Prejudice

Here, relationships, encounters and landscape play a central spatial role, and the movement between house, garden and open land creates different social situations. This became the reference for shooting environments that open onto the landscape and invite interaction.

From film to architecture

The contrasting spatial characters of the two films led to a varied set of stages. Enclosed, open and semi-open spaces come together as one production system, able to host many atmospheres, scenes and experiences.

A day on campus

Students doing yoga on the lawn under the canopy — Teaching lawn — yoga and dance rehearsals

Students gathered on the stepped seating — Student stage — performances and meetups

The wide festival square and brick buildings — Festival grounds — film, make-up and costume stands

Aerial view of the campus, festival square and car park — The campus from above

South-east and north-west elevations

Drawings

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