Non-profit organisation Assemble have constructed a temporary canal-side cinema under a London motorway flyover.
Folly for a Flyover was assembled by a team of volunteers over the course of a month, using reclaimed and donated materials.
It remains in place for six weeks, staging a series of movies and performances as part of the Create festival.
Built from bricks of clay and wood and supported by scaffolding, the structure encloses a cafe, bar and cinema stalls.
Visitors can also take trips to the nearby Olympic site aboard rowing boats and canoes that depart from a wooden jetty on the canal bank.
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Folly for a Flyover
On 24th June, a building will appear in the gap between the east and westbound traffic of the A12.
Transforming the cavernous undercroft where the motorway crosses the Lea Navigation Canal, Folly for a Flyover will host a six week programme of waterside cinema, performance and play.
Hand-built with local, reclaimed and donated materials, the Folly draws influence from the surrounding red-brick buildings of Hackney Wick, posing as an imaginary piece of the area’s past, a building trapped under the motorway.
By day the folly will host a café, workshops and events and boat trips exploring the surrounding waterways.
At night there will be screenings ranging from animation classics to early and experimental cinema with live scores, light shows and performances.
Like a giant construction-kit, the folly will be built over the period of a month by a team of volunteers.
Having served one purpose it will be disassembled at the end of the summer, and the compents will find new uses across the local area.
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This project looks amazing. A good reason to go to Hackney Wick.
I could be wrong, but it looks like those bricks just stacked without any mortar? Even with scaffolding behind isn't that slightly… unstable?
what a fantastic idea! It would be good to see an image from the motorway looking down, or just catching a glimpse of the roof apex.
they are drilled and strung together with rope. They are mortarless so the building can be taken apart and re-used in other projects.
Really digging this. Perfect siting for the project. Hopefully it inspires more interventions.
Nice intervention… I would have preferred lighter coloured materials. The presently chosen palete makes the already dark space underneath the flyover. But, as i said, that is what i would have prefered. This work looks amazing. This could be a very good example for developing/ under developed nations to revitalise such areas, with minimum changes in the physical environment.
A really great project. Shame about the hipsters.
Just curious about the level of noise from the motorway above? Is it a big distraction?
The minute you use a folly as a cinema, it’s not a folly anymore…. They basically built a deconstructable cinema! A nice one though, but not a folly.
Bizarrely, they haven't mentioned that the bricks are timber, rather than clay otherwise you probably wouldn't want to go in it. . . . Also the comment about the noise, surprisingly it really isn't noticeable at all. Not sure about the boat trips though as that section of the canal has a layer or weed/sludge about a foot thick! And obviously it is not a folly, that word is seemingly just used because it sounds quaint. Overall though, a really nice intervention.
I'd read about temporary movie theaters in standing (if abandoned) structures (like gas stations: http://www.smart-urban-stage.com/blog/post/cinero… but this kind of project is new to me. I think it's a great idea, whimsical without being overly precious. It must have turned more than a few heads.