Cafes, gyms and lounges across Dubai
We design commercial and hospitality interiors across Dubai. Cafes and bars, gyms and spas, lounges, reception spaces and the rooms a business meets its customers in. We draw them in enough detail for a fit out contractor to price and build.
Tell us about your space
Free consultation and site survey. Share a few details and our design team will contact you to arrange it.
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The usual story
An opening date is a promise to someone else. Most of what breaks it is decided on paper.
A scheme that has not been costed as it is drawn becomes a negotiation with the contractor instead of a build.
Civil defence, municipality and the mall's own fit-out team each want something specific, and each of them can stop the job.
Kitchen, service routes and seating designed separately meet on site, and the staff live with whatever is left.
Process
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Free test fit
We take your covers, your headcount or your equipment list and test them against the unit. You get a plan showing what fits before you sign a lease.
You receiveA plan showing what your covers, headcount or equipment list actually fit into the unit, before you sign the lease.
Area by area
A commercial space makes money or it does not. Every metre of floor costs rent, and a layout that seats twelve fewer people costs more every month it is open. We settle the numbers before we settle the look.
Seat count against floor area, the route staff take from the bar to the furthest table, and where the extraction runs. These decide whether the room works on a busy night.
Equipment spacing, floor loading and where the mirrors go. Ceiling height and air flow matter more here than in any other commercial room.
Wet and dry zones kept apart, drainage falls under every wet floor, and the layers that keep water out of the structure. Quiet matters as much as the finishes.
The first thing a customer sees, and where they stand while they wait. We design the desk around the person working at it, not only around the photograph.
The seating has to suit one person with a laptop and a group of six. Furniture layout does more work here than the finishes do.
Staff rooms, stores and the routes between them. Getting this wrong slows every shift for as long as the business operates there.
Work
The café bar and gyms at Hard Rock Residences. The spa, pool and gym at Tonino Lamborghini in Meydan, and the lounges and play areas at Petalz in Al Warsan. We also designed the Hospitality Lodge. Business Bay, Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina, DIFC, Jumeirah, City Walk and Dubai Hills are the other areas we cover.
Our story
We founded Conceptor in Dubai in 2021 to design architecture, interiors and landscape as one process. When one team sets the layout, the materials and the technical drawings, the finished space matches the first idea.
Today we are an award-winning studio. Our architects, interior designers, visual artists and strategists work with private clients and developers across the MENA region. Every commercial project starts with how the space has to work on an ordinary trading day, and every drawing follows it.
The Conceptor team
Design studio, Dubai
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Why us
What you get here that a company doing both the design and the building cannot offer you.
A company that designs and builds is paid for the construction as well as the design. We are not. Nobody here has a reason to approve a price we would otherwise question.
Seat count, equipment spacing and staff routes come first. A room that photographs well and seats twelve fewer people costs you every month it is open.
Unclear drawings are why fit out budgets grow, because anything missing becomes an extra charge once work starts. Ours leave the contractor nothing to guess.
On Hard Rock Residences the brand set rules on materials, lighting and layout. We designed inside those rules and the scheme was approved.
What owners say
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FAQ
We design and draw. A fit out contractor builds from our drawings, and we stay on site through the work. If you want one company to design and build, we are not it. Better to know now.
The price depends on the state the unit is handed over in and on whether there is a kitchen. How hard the space gets used moves it again, and so do brand rules and a short opening date. We do not publish a price list. Send us the unit plan and what you are opening, and we will come back with a fee.
Our commercial work so far sits inside residential schemes. A branded café bar, gyms, a spa and indoor pool, residents' lounges, reception areas, a children's play area and a management suite. We have also designed the Hospitality Lodge. Retail, restaurant and showroom work is something we take on, and we will say plainly where it would be our first.
Yes, and the first thing we settle is the seat count against the floor area. Then the extraction, the route from the bar to the furthest table, and the back of house layout. The finishes come after all three.
We give you a programme once we have seen the unit plan. The time depends on the size and on whether there is a kitchen. The build after it depends on your contractor. We work back from your opening date.
Yes, we prepare and submit the drawings your building manager and Dubai Municipality ask for. Food and drink units need more approvals than a shop does, and we tell you which ones apply before we start.
Yes, we have done it on Hard Rock Residences. A brand manual sets what you may use for materials, lighting and layout. It usually needs the brand to sign the drawings off, and we build that step into the programme.
Yes, and we do it often. We handle the interior design and the drawings, and we coordinate with whoever is already on the project. We issue a set they can price and build from, then stay on site through the work.
Enquiry
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Send us the property, the scope and roughly what you have in mind. We will come back with how we would run it.
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