A drawing of an imaginary fairyland was Wutopia Lab's starting point for the design of this cafe for children in Dalian, China.
Featuring a host of learn-play areas and whimsical decor details, the 580-square-metre Lolly-Laputan cafe is described by Wutopia Lab as "the first educational family restaurant in China".
"One morning my daughter was drawing out her dream fairyland and I really wanted to make that dream come true, so more kids could come and join in," explained Yu Ting, chief architect at the studio.

On the outside, the cafe's facade is covered with round, aluminium panels perforated with holes. Some overlap to form "ripples" or frame the building's various entrance points.
The front lobby is a circular room, where seating is surrounded by what the designers describe as a "forest of lights". Made up of 1,000 acrylic tubes hung in a ring-shaped formation, the lights are meant to simulate the effect of sunlight shining through dense layers of leaves in a forest.
The adjacent main cafe has a largely open-plan layout that revolves around a central area coined Cloudy Town ? it's defined by rows of undulating white acrylic panels that run across the floor and ceiling.
Kids can run amongst the "clouds" and discover features such as a carousel, hidden tree-houses, slides and a ball pit.

Cloudy Town is also dotted with a series of house-shaped timber structures that contain miniature kitchen and supermarket playsets.

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