Funun Lab

Mr. Fan Jie established Funun Lab, an interior design company, in 2016. The firm is committed to producing inspirational, high-caliber work and researching the ideal outcomes of space design and branding integration. In addition to providing distinctive aesthetic insights and creative ideas, the lab accurately communicates the brand’s attributes and offers each customer a one-of-a-kind experience.

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House with Blue Bridge | Story Architecture

The House with Blue Bridge by Story Architecture is a linear residence divided into two blocks to create a courtyard in the centre of the house. This solution allows for the desired number of bedrooms while still maintaining adequate lighting and ventilation in each room. A blue bridge in the courtyard minimises a feeling of segregation between the blocks and infuses the area with tranquillity and vibrancy.

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A house for gardeners | Haddock Architecture

Haddock Architecture designed “A house for gardeners” with the maintenance and caretakers of parks and gardens in mind. This facility has changing areas for agents as well as related areas like the workshop and equipment storage. The idea aims to develop contemporary vernacular architecture by reinstating an obvious relationship between rational structure, economical architecture, and constructive truth.

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Chagee Tea Bar | Still Young

The tea colour serves as a visual focal point and a means for fusing the Chagee Tea Bar’s decor with the brand’s culture and goods in this Still Young interior design project. Tea culture’s aesthetics constitute the root of the Tea Bar’s design concept. The grottoes of Dunhuang act as an inspiration for the interior design. Minimalist structures and unique forms are created, evoking a sense of compactness in a tunnel.

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The House within the Grid | LIJO.RENY.architects

The House within the Grid by LIJO.RENY.architects is a residence making use of the remarkable spatial flexibility offered by a modular grid. A unique spatial language developed as a result of juxtaposing the house’s strict yet peaceful geometry with the chaotic terrain of its site. While ensuring privacy, the thoughtfully designed layout also enables comprehensive cross-ventilation by directing wind across its rooms due to its orientation.

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M’Masterhall Fortunepot | LDH Architectural Design Firm

The M’Masterhall Fortunepot interior design project by LDH Architectural Design Firm incorporates artistic aesthetics into the commercial space, creates a dining environment with an oriental ambiance, and uses spatial order as a link between people and food. It is inspired by the Manmanhai brand concept. The oriental space aesthetic aims for a handcrafted design that combines items with the natural world and traditional culture.

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LDH Architectural Design Firm

By defining the character of the space and bringing the project’s inner harmony from the physical to the spiritual, LDH Architectural Design Firm displays the traditional oriental aesthetics of the commercial restaurant itself. In keeping with the idea of “making valuable design,” the designers create Chinese-inspired spaces with light, colour, shape, and air, and infused creative passion into the commercial iteration of Manmanhai.

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Re-Mining Giali: A new scenario for the manufactured landscape_Baths and a Power Production Facility | Architecture Thesis

Re-Mining Giali: A new scenario for the manufactured landscape_Baths and a Power Production Facility is an Architecture Thesis by Dimitrios Mitsimponas from Department of Architecture – University of Thessaly, exploring the relation between recreational spaces and energy production infrastructure. The proposal provides an alternate scenario for Giali Island’s artificial landscape, which has been irreversibly transformed by mining with several detrimental social and environmental effects.

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Ansan Hotel | WJ Studio

Ansan Hotel is a renovation project by WJ Studio based on the idea of symbolization. It was intended that the building’s exterior form, material, and colour will reflect the local qualities and urban culture of Keqiao. The team also focused on reimagining public and private indoor and outdoor spaces to add a sense of freshness while maintaining the integrity of the original location.

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Casa Floresta | Estúdio Zargos

Casa Floresta by Estúdio Zargos is a residence that alternates between the simplicity of contemporary materials and the preservation of volumetric qualities. The first issue was to reverse the initial request to entirely demolish the old structure because the original shapes and proportions of this project date back decades and tells the tale of a hospitable and responsive city, just like the neighbourhood.

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Estúdio Zargos

Estúdio Zargos is an architecture studio based in Belo Horizonte, and, since its foundation in 2012, they have worked in the design and creation of livable spaces. The designers believe in a free and creative architecture capable of transforming space and people, exploring what involves them in deep synesthesia with people and places always looking for a genuine expression of the poetics of living and spaces that inspire and enhance emotions.

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Journey Through The Lost Glory – A Trail Along Kolar Gold Fields – KGF | Architecture Thesis

Harsha S. M.’s architecture thesis, Journey Through The Lost Glory – A Trail Along Kolar Gold Fields, examines spatial experience in architecture through a journey across the abandoned mines in KGF and a discussion of the viability of spatializing the abandoned mining zone in KGF. The objective of this thesis is to analyse underground architecture and how it influences architectural space design.

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Holiday Home At Nuwara-Eliya | Damith Premathilake Architects

Damith Premathilake Architects designed the Holiday Home At Nuwara-Eliya, a dwelling that embraces the very essence of its surroundings. The vacation home is intended to be an elegant building that lightly touches the ground on three axes. Every area of this residence is surrounded by panoramic views of the lovely surroundings thanks to its strategic placement. The design permits a subtle infiltration of the environment into the interiors.

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Fuzhou Vanke Yantai Mountain walking block commercial packaging | Fun Connection Design

The Urban Design project Fuzhou Vanke Yantai Mountain walking block commercial packaging by Fun Connection Design is a community streetscape transformation targeting facade renovation, visual updating, landscape renewal, and commercial building wraps. This old building complex with a long history reconstructed the streetscape of an old block by improving and transforming the streetscape vibes and guiding urban restoration.

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Fun Connection Design

Fun Connection is a global design firm that was founded in Shanghai in 2014 and focuses on interior design and space performance. Fun Connection views innovation as the enduring development strategy and the fundamental source of the team’s competitiveness. In order to produce intriguing, cosy, and welcoming designs for every project, the firm upholds the implementation idea of empowering the area with open cross-border innovation.

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LAPH cafe | 3fconcept

3fconcept’s LAPH café interior design project involved renovating two stories of a tube home into a coffee shop, with the goal of designing an interesting landmark to create attention and increase the emotions of passersby. For the interiors, cement colours were used for ceilings, walls, and floors, as if the covered materials of the house had just been removed. The selected stone was also grey. All these elements create a rustic contrast with the white front sign.

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RARA whole-house showroom | CUN Design

The RARA whole-house showroom is an interior design project by CUN Design that shows the idea of “squareness and roundness,” offering the design both artistic and formal beauty. A well-measured design texture is developed at the point where the cuboid and the double circular column converge, completing the structure in a beautiful way. Compared to traditional architectural theory, the plan, structure, and style no longer just use squares and circles as reasonable geometric shapes.

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CUN Design

CUN Design is an architectural firm that proposes the concept of enterprise operation space. It is the first space design team in China that combines the concepts of artistic creativity, technology office, and green office to fulfil the efficiency of corporate offices. It is a pioneer in the field of office design, releasing the latest trends in office space thinking.

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Homelinker Library | KiKi ARCHi

The Homelinker Library’s interior design by KiKi ARCHi is a reflection of the cultural and ideological aspects of an office. The major objective is to construct a spiritual location that is accessible to all, natural and tranquil, open and shared, and full of good energy, much like the Fibonacci spiral of shell creatures. The concept is involves locating the library where it has a natural green wall within, to promote stability and tranquilly.

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Mountain Dust | Architect Mahesh Naik

Mountain Dust is a residential project by Architect Mahesh Naik based on unique triskelion geometrical system in response to the site context and the climatic conditions, along with minimal natural material palette, generated the form of the house from within. The external appearance of the house is the natural result of the process. Thus, the house form expresses a highly specific relationship to the site and the client’s programme.

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Architect Mahesh Naik

Architect Mahesh Naik’s practise is based on Organic Architecture, creating structures that grow from nature and blend with it to achieve human-centric design. He believes that Objective Organic Architecture focuses on the creation of objective art forms. The architect does not create any working drawings following the creation of a conceptual drawing and model; the project develops organically as a result of on-site work done in response to the local environment.

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Weekly Highlights 2023 #33

Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – K-Lagoon | Malik Architecture. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.

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Portello Colmarion Restoration | Studio Bressan

Portello Colmarion Restoration, a conservation architecture project by Studio Bressan, seeks to improve general public perception of a historic portal. In keeping with the restoration efforts made to the walls in recent decades, its link with the city was favoured to the romantic notion of the old walls. The restoration also entailed redefining the bicycle and pedestrian paths and resurfacing the river pebble pavement below the gateway.

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Off-Grid Guest House | Anacapa

The Off-Grid Guest House by Anacapa was designed with the goal to improve the property’s ecological integrity rather than further deteriorate it, with the least possible negative effects on the ecosystem. In an effort to blur the line between the built and the unbuilt, the house was designed like a glass peninsula, with three-way operable glass walls that summon various ocean and canyon vistas.

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