The project design theme is ‘The City’. In most movie worlds, the story usually starts in a bustling city, therefore, we drew inspiration from the aerial view of cities, presenting the hustle and bustle of cities in a figurative way, in the space that interacts with movies.
There are many ‘boxes’ in rectangular or trapezoidal shapes on the ceilings and walls, extending in various heights and angles in the lobby, which is the image of a bustling metropolis with skyscrapers. The unique mottled pattern of marble runs throughout the space, with natural stone used for the floor, the walls, the seating and the bar counter. The ceiling, on the other hand, is a transfer of the stone pattern printed onto the metal panel surface. The lobby is a blend of real marble and metal panels. Using metal panels rather than natural stone to create the ceiling was a result of cost control and weight reduction. Considering the effect of materials on sound transmission in auditoriums, we chose to create the space with marble patterns printed on the cloth.
The intersecting roads in the city form small plots of land, and the overall space was considered to be divided in this way at the beginning of the design, so the geometry form the ceilings, the walls and the floor with different alignment, as if they were suddenly withdrawn, but with the connection of forming a surface field with each other.