Other Spaces · Moscow · Realised 2024

GOSU Cyber Lounge

A cyber lounge shaped by 2001: A Space Odyssey

Overview

Sector: Other Spaces
Location: Moscow
Area: 390 m²
Status: Realised 2024

An esports club designed as much for rest and conversation as for play.

GOSU Cyber Lounge is a 390 m² esports club in Moscow, realised in 2024. The brief asked for a space that serves the needs of gamers.

Its concept takes its cue from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

GOSU Cyber Lounge: bar with a white canopy, mirror-finish wall with lines of game-console text and an orange floor — Bar and mirror wall

Bar counter with grey stools beneath a ring-shaped luminaire — Bar counter

White bar front with grey sofa seating and a wall-mounted screen — Bar front and lounge seating

Architectural concept

Futuristic aesthetics, merged with contemporary comfort.

The aim is a space that satisfies gamers and is just as much a place to rest and to meet: a lounge first, with technology present as atmosphere rather than as equipment.

Line drawing of the main hall in perspective, traced from the project image — Drawing · Perspective study traced from the main-hall image — an illustrative UGLK drawing, not construction documentation.

Spatial design

Read from the project imagery.

01
One continuous floor
A single orange floor runs through bar, lounge and seating, so the room reads as one space rather than a set of zones.
02
Light as drawing
Ring-shaped linear luminaires cross the ceiling in overlapping loops — lines of light that tie the room together along its depth.
03
Sculpted columns
Pale, sculpted columns stand along the central axis and give the long room rhythm and a sense of scale.
04
Mirror-finish walls
Polished metal surfaces carry a wall of framed screens and game-console lines set in light, and double the room in reflection.
05
Quiet furniture
Grey upholstered banquettes and armchairs and a long white table keep the furniture calm against the orange and the metal.