In most movie worlds, the story usually starts in a bustling city. The theme of the design is ‘Busy City’, and the designers drew inspiration from the aerial view of cities, presenting the hustle and bustle of cities in an abstract way in this cinema located in Wuhan.

When stepping into the lobby, you can feel as if entering a city that is particularly worth exploring. The road network in the city divides the land into irregular shapes, and the designer abstracts such forms into perpendicular warp and weft lines, in which the rectangles are formed in an irregular way either extending or sloping, just like the skyline of the tall buildings in the city in distance. The whole space, whether it is the floor, the wall or the ceiling, "boxes" of different heights and angles are separated and dismantled in the space by this way. The irregular forms seem to be cleverly distinguished by invisible hands, and finally we can see the image of a bustling metropolis with skyscrapers, just like the expanding city follows the rules of architecture instead of growing haphazardly. Some of the "boxes" are designed as seating, while others are used as space dividers to distinguish between different functional areas, and parts of the wall are used as a guide and backdrop for the passage.

The luminaires were creatively concealed, only the light illuminates the straight gaps between the ‘boxes’, and the contrast between light and darkness travels in the space, like the flowing and shining streets in cities.

The ticket office and counter bar are completely open, following the feeling of "road network", with slow or sharp ramps forming the separation of different functional areas, giving more space back to customers, just like a free and open city, where the audience can sit around and talk freely.

When it comes to the choice of materials, the designers considered that architectures in cities cannot be separated from stone, so we chose stones with different colors and textures as the main material. This approach is not just a matter of choosing the stone itself, but of borrowing the varied and unique patterns that stone forms in nature and working it into metal panels, fabrics, carpets and other different materials. Due to the original load of the building and cost control, the designers transferred the stone patterns on metal material to reduce the weight of ceiling load, which not only ensures the same alignment and texture throughout the space, but also better controls the safety and economic problems. In order to make the stone patterns on different materials have a realistic effect, the entire design team spent nearly one year on the preparation and proofing, making it impossible to tell the difference between where is the real stone and where is the fake one. The irregular patterns of the marble are like the many people who live in a busy city, where thousands of stories are told every day and it is important to find your own rhythm of life.

Consistent with the lobby design idea, it is continued into the auditoriums. The main colors are orange brown and red stone patterns, processed into sound-absorbing material. In order to make the stone texture more realistic, the designers presented the stone patterns 1:1 on fabrics, and prepared in advance nearly a thousand different layout for printing products, and ensured that there is no duplication of patterns in the space. The contrast of stone color replaces the single color, so that the natural texture can be effectively extended in the space. As for the other auditoriums, the color scheme is a combination of dark blue stone and brown stone patterns. The designers hope to bring people strong emotions caused by the film, as a way to express the city’s bustle and passion.

The auditoriums give a sense of neatness and clear lines, just like the layout of a perfectly planned city. However, within such a regular framework, people actually have their own unique life path, they are part of the city, and they make the city a colorful storytelling place. There are thousands of ways to live a life, and everyone is the leading role of his or her own colorful life movie.