Dome Restaurant and Bar

Hongbo Wung's architectural vocabulary for Dome Restaurant and Bar operates as a sophisticated symbolic system encoding meanings of sanctuary, nourishment, and cosmic shelter through the primordial archetype of the protective overhead plane. The dominant golden palette carries rich cultural resonances across traditions, from the association of gold with solar energy, divine presence, and alchemical transformation to its embodiment of warmth, abundance, and celebration in hospitality contexts. The undulating ceiling forms may evoke geological formations, suggesting earth's ancient wisdom, or perhaps the interior of organic structures like honeycombs or cocoons, encoding meanings of collective industry, sweetness, and transformative gestation. The central coral-tinted aperture functions as an oculus, a symbolic eye or opening to celestial realms that appears in sacred architecture across cultures, from the Pantheon's opening to the heavens to the dome's traditional association with cosmic order and divine presence. Cylindrical columns reference the archetypal pillar as axis mundi, the world axis connecting earthly and celestial realms, their presence establishing the space as symbolically centered and oriented. The cave-like enclosure invokes the primordial shelter, humanity's first architectural experience, transforming dining into something approaching ritual return to protective origins. The warm color temperature throughout activates associations with hearth, firelight, and the primal comfort of flame against darkness. The contrast between the organic, flowing ceiling and the rectilinear furniture below suggests a dialogue between natural and cultural ordering principles, with human social arrangements contained within and protected by elemental form. The material palette of metal, leather, and stone invokes permanence and authenticity, suggesting timeless values against contemporary transience.

When they have this two stories building project, they try to make it as natural and comfortable as they can. They open up a part of the ground of second floor and put a transparent light film on the ceiling to simulate the scene of sun rise. They curved all the conners to make a surrounded atomsphere. They also use an mix colored light system to create a vibe of early morning sun rising. At last, they use light golden artistic paint to give a relaxed feeling.