Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya by Junpeng Shaw

Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya by Junpeng Shaw is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award in Ukudizayina Ingaphakathi Competition Category.

InsimbiIngaphakathi· 2022

Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya

by Junpeng Shaw

Client: AtelierOFFLINE

Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award Winner in Ingaphakathi Category

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The Design

About Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya

Umbhalo Wencwadi: I-Fun Factory iyithiyetha yamahlaya e-stand-up comedy eNanjing, eChina. Isikhala sonke silinganiselwa kumamitha ayisikwele angu-300, kufaka phakathi isikhala sokwenza umculo esilinganiselwa kumamitha ayisikwele angu-150 kanye nesikhala sokuthengisa nemicimbi esilinganiselwa kumamitha ayisikwele angu-70. Ipulani ihlukaniswe yaba yindawo yangaphakathi ephethe isiteji, kanye nendawo yangaphandle esetshenziswa ngaphambi kokungena. Umklamo unciphisa ibanga phakathi kwabaculi nezethameli ngokomzimba, ngokombono kanye nangokwezwakalayo. Izitini, isimende kanye nendwangu yodonga zakha izindawo ezilula, kuyilapho ukukhanya nesithunzi kuhola ukunyakaza kwezivakashi.

The Recognition

About the Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award

Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya iwinile uMklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award, ukwaziswa okuhloniphekile okunikezwa imiklamo emihle ehlangabezana nezidingo zobungcweti nezemboni ezilindelekile ezimpahleni ezihlelwe kahle. Abawinile beNsimbi babonisa ikhono elikhulu, ubungcweti obuphezulu, ukuqonda kochwepheshe namandla okudala abadali babo. Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya ilindeleke ukuba ibe yinto exatshwa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo esebenzayo nenezinto ezintsha. Lo mklamo owinile uMklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award uhlanganisa izindlela ezinhle kakhulu zemboni futhi unezimfanelo zobuchwepheshe ezifanelekile ezihlanganiswe nolwazi nethalente. Fun Factory Umklamo Wangaphakathi Wethiyetha Yamahlaya iyahlonishwa ngenxa yokucophelela kwayo futhi ihlelelwe ukulethela izinguquko zomgangatho wempilo ezisiza ukwenza umhlaba ube yindawo engcono.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Unlike other drama types, stand up comedy pays more attention to the interactive experience with the audience. Especially for the face to face dialogue experience and the degree of empathy. Therefore, they put the distance between the actor and the audience as our top priority when designing and the whole stage. The distance reflects in many ways, such as physical space, light and shadow and acoustic. If we want our audience feel the intimacy with the actors and the stage, we need to reduce the strangeness of the actors to the space and the audience.
Dimensions & Packaging: The total project area is 300 square meters, it includes approximately 150 square meters of performance space and 70 square meters of retail and event space.
Tags: humanities, stand up comedy, theater, stage, fun factory, performance, starry night
Production Technology: They hope the design would deliver more not just for providing an area only for watching the performance. Therefore, and they hardly worried whether the venue style and materials are fashionable enough. That even intend to weaken the artificial decoration. They want to use simple stuff to integrate the main structure of the theater so they choose bricks, cement, wall cloth and other basic materials. By arrange the light and shadow so as to guide the formation of audience which in accord with the theme of the Party.
Design Challenge: At the very beginning the stand up comedy stage was set up in bars, restaurants or other temporary places, some even renting small places to perform the show. With the gradual attention, people would ask for bigger venue for the show, however, the main function for these theaters were still not built for stand up comedy. With the continuous development of domestic stand up comedy and the rise of market foundation, how to establish a sustainable and theater model becomes our main topic.
Research: After nearly two years of vigorous development, the performance venue has gradually developed from an accessory of other businesses to an independent stand up comedy clubs. As a pioneer of Chinese comedy, following the landing of the first stand-up comedy experimental theater two years ago, their design has become and established a set of exclusive and modernized model of stand-up comedy theater which generally applicable in the Chinese market. Ingenious and appropriate design, in our opinion, is the key to the theater space.
Although the stand-up comedy is more like an export developed goods, how to build a space which perfectly demonstrates the goods and fulfills all the requirements becomings the designing topic.
Inspiration: The audience would expect more when they enter the theater. You may say that it is to obtain happiness or to escape from reality. The design of stand-up comedy seems to reply a "sense of unreality" and give people more expectations.

Although the project background and concept are different, what runs through is the designer's understanding of the interactive relationship between the space and the people.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2021 in Nanjing, China and finished in May 2021.
Operation Flow: The whole space is mainly divided into infield (the area of main body of the performance theater) and outfield (the space before admission). The stage is set up in the infield and it is the core venue to deliver the sense of ritual and to show the respect to the audience.
Patents: Copyrights belong to AtelierOFFLINE, 2021
Team Members: Design Director: Junpeng Shaw
Image Credits: Photographer Kevin Jiang, Sensor Images, 2021.