Spatial transformations in cities are expressions of culture. One medium that illuminates their historical causes is the political-aesthetic influence of cinema (integrated transmission of systems of ideas about space and relationships in time) in each local or wider social organization. Cinema is the creative way of expressing and influencing ideas-behaviors about architecture in space and time.
In my essay I chose the investigation and the design proposal of the transformation - reuse of the California theater. The building is located at the junction of Antipolarchou Vlachakou and Palamidiou streets, in the Agia Sofia district of Piraeus. Its construction took place in the late 1930s and its operation as a theater began on January 25, 1931. Apart from its important history as a carrier of aesthetic importance, established in its particular morphological elements - neoclassical style - it is, in addition, landmark of the wider area, which is evident even today despite its abandonment in the last 40 years.
The reuse of old buildings - guided by the modern needs of the citizens’ thought-political vigilance is a vital element for the smooth maintenance-duration of their urban functions. My purpose is to highlight each and every aesthetic-functional obligations in the reuse proposal, in order to cover - answer the modern functional upgrade possibilities both in the building and in the area where it exists.
