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Gangnam q.d.c / Indiesalon

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Our recent project, 'q.d.c', reimagines a small café tucked within one of Gangnam's dense office clusters as a place of pause and reflection — a "second office" for those who move to the rhythm of work. The name takes inspiration from the medical abbreviation *qd*, meaning "once a day," here reinterpreted as Quick Daily Coffee — a ritual celebrating everyday productivity and calm.

Hana Bank, Seoul-forest / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000

While a bank is a space with a clear purpose, the gap in waiting that is in the process often feels long and boring. Everyone has picked up a number of tickets and experienced a long waiting time. The design of the Hana Bank's Seoul-forest branch was focused on reinterpreting this daily experience. Indiesalon has proposed a space where customers can go beyond just banking and turn their waiting time into moments of relaxation and contemplation while appreciating the lively view of Seongsu-dong. It creates an open and elegant indoor ambiance through a waiting space that captures the city's scenery with wide windows, and bank windows that are wrapped in soft curves, and through a parabolic roof structure that is connected very upward. We make Hana Bank Seoul-forest branch suggestion to be financial space's new standard as a modern shelter that everybody can rest.

Glow Store / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The GLOW showroom, created for a cosmetics firm that values transparency and brilliance, converts a small 36㎡ space in a narrow alley of Garosu-gil into an engaging marketing experience. Given the constraints of a small footprint and limited visibility, the design strives to represent GLOW's vivid brand and draw attention boldly.

LADOR Seongsu Store / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We took charge of the first flagship store project of LADOR, a Korean hair product brand. The client wanted a resting place in the space of LADOR where they could comfortably receive hair care. Here we proposed a space filled with architectural devices incorporating LADOR’s brand philosophy, based on a comfortable home of LADOR.

Slowyard BBQ Restaurant & Bar / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Slow Yard: A Fresh Perspective on Texas BBQ - Located in the heart of South Korea's Hapjeong-dong, the 'Slowyard' Texas BBQ restaurant is a new creation born from the innovative spirit of Indiesalon. The term "Texas BBQ" alone evokes images of families gathering in backyards, grilling meat over charcoal fires, scenes commonly seen in TV shows and films. Indiesalon set out to introduce the Texas BBQ culture to a country dominated by apartment living, creating a unique space where people could experience it.

Dosan Precision Restaurant / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Dosan Precision explores the subtle connection between a precision factory and a dining bar, drawing inspiration from this combination to create a unique space. This connection can be found in how small components complete a machine's motion and how small ingredients complete a dish, emphasizing the shared values of engineers and chefs.

Piknic 2020 Cultural Centre / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Renovation of A multi-cultural space. We renovated Goshiwon(share house) which was built with red bricks in the 1990s and located at the foot of Seoul Namsan Mountain. The place could remain as just the old past, but we upcycled the place into a complex cultural place coexisting with a cinema room, café, restaurant, and design shops. Architecture put efforts into making a cultural space that can be absorbed with the recent and the futural possibilities as he recorded the time inheritance of the existing building.

Munhwa Bistro Seong-su / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Since time immemorial, caves have been used not only as residential spaces for human beings but also as cultural spaces. Seven students in the film gathered in a hideout, ‘cave,’ asking questions about life, and in Hollywood films, romantic narratives made between men and women have also been carried out inside caves.