Lord of The Ink
Nour Fekry, Sarah Gomaa, Ahmed Waleed, Assmaa Masoud, Yara Shaheen
student
Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering Architecture Department.
Egypt
Interior Design
Lord of the Ink is a temporary bookstore that reimagines the typical retail space as an immersive, dark fantasy experience inspired by The Lord of the Rings… more
Stefan Stanković
advisor
GAF - University of Niš - Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Serbian
To create sustainable space for a future generation more
This project is bold, unapologetic, and unfiltered. It doesn’t whisper – it erupts. The entire space feels like it was carved out of lava and imagination at the same time. It’s not a library – it’s a narrative landscape frozen mid-myth.
From furniture to floorplan, from lighting to color palette – every decision speaks the same language. That kind of coherence is rare. It shows obsession, and that’s a compliment.
The interplay of light, texture, and form is theatrical in the best possible way. That skylight and circular flame-core element are just pure spatial poetry.
You knew what story you wanted to tell — and you told it with no compromises. The Tolkien-lava-metaphor runs deep, yet doesn’t feel like cosplay. It’s rooted in material and light, not just moodboards.
This is not subtle. It doesn’t try to be. And thank God for that. It’s immersive architecture, driven by emotion and story, not just square meters. At its core, this is a love letter to myth and material — and it’s a hell of a read.
If this project were a book, I’d pick it up just to sit inside it.
While the space is visually arresting, questions remain: how does this library actually function? How are acoustics handled in such a cavernous environment? How comfortable is long-term reading in such intense surroundings?
The organic forms look amazing in render, but how does one orient inside the plan? Consider how people move, pause, or even get lost. A bit more legibility could help without killing the magic.
Execution-wise, some of these shapes would be nightmarishly complex to construct — especially at this scale. A section showing how this might be built (not just imagined) would elevate the work from fantasy to future.
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