British Film Institute Film Complex Part 2 Project 2004 Alex TaylorSeth White University of Portsmouth | UK Our thesis design for a new British Film Institute ‘Film Complex’ explores the sensual experience of film and its relationship to a dynamic new architecture. The scheme comprises a major new arts and heritage project, designed to provide the UK with a unique, world class facility for the enjoyment and appreciation of film/television culture. It will bring together the currently disparate BFI facilities into a fully integrated accessible showcase. Objective: To produce a project which met the BFI’s future operational needs, help broaden accessibility to audiences and visitors whilst enhancing their position as one of the worlds leading cultural centres. This site represented a challenge to link disparate parts of the South Bank in London through an experience of journey through the city, a route which moves from the river through a building and beyond to Waterloo Station, a challenge to resolve at different scales and sectional levels and to invent a new topography for the city. The students invented a landscape, and the two student projects create an urban space which relates to the river and the narrative idea of film, the ultimate journey through the city: from the reality of hard ,exterior, urban space to the interior experience of film and fantasy.