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Architecture · 2025

Rayan Architects

A practice that draws in light — rebuilt as a site that moves like one of their buildings.

Rayan Architects — featured project
01 — The brief

A studio that built beautifully, and pitched like everyone else.

The work was the proof; the brand was the bottleneck. Enquiries stalled on a template site that read like a contractor, not an architect. The brief: an identity with the same confidence as the buildings — and a system the team could run themselves.

Project detail
Adyar Residence — homepage hero
02 — The approach

One system, drawn to the building's logic.

We locked a type-and-motion grammar — editorial serif for the soul, a clean grotesk for structure — and a palette pulled from concrete, light and shadow. Every page is composed like a plan: a clear datum, generous negative space, and a single decisive move per view.

Project index — 4:5
Detail page — 4:5
Motion study — 16:9
03 — The outcome

A site that performs like the practice.

Launched in six weeks. The new site reframed the portfolio as the lead actor, the reel pipeline kept the studio posting weekly without a designer in the loop, and enquiries arrived already sold on the work. They kept the whole engine.

6 wks Brief to launch
3.4× Enquiry rate vs old site
1 / week Reels, run in-house
0 Designers needed after handover
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