Smoking Area

Metal Frame

PRC Board

Glazing

Pentagon Roof Unit

Every unit of the roof is a pentagon, formed by five triangles. Unit frames are white metal frame, as frame of glazing windows, white PRC boards, or white metal shading.

Triangle Shape Inspiration

Adopting triangular shape is inspired by the shape of Banaux House itself. As known, Banaux is a unique acute triangle, so in order to keep a continious rhythm of form making, same ratio acute triangle is used to be the basic element of new roof.

Five triangles form a pentagon, and pentagons are the units of the new roof. Between pentagons, PRC boards are used to connect. And all these PRC boards are also acute triangles.

New Roof Construction Details

The roof is constructed mainly using three layers of material. First is supporting metal frames, connected by tectonic knots. Then insulation material, in fabric form, thus will not affect visual effect of the window. Then the layer of glazing. Wuhan has extremely cold winter and woithout central heating. Wuhan has burning summer also, so insulation in rooftop space ios especially important. Billboard Structure

Metal shelf is used to support the billboard located at previous Banaux Tower angle position.

A reinforced steel bracing is attached to the innerstructure, the reinforced concrete frame, and reached the ground. On it a alyer of PVC board is floored to intimate the same shaping form as the roof. Then layers of LED screen is on.

Usually, the billboard shows recent films playing in the cinema, including newly launched ones and classical ones.

During COVID-19, despite the cinemas should be closed, the spirit of the cinema to deliver movies remained unchanged. The billboards that used to undertake the task of propaganda have now become the forefront of the cinema to guide people to fight the epidemic with the spirit of cinema.