Courtyard Public Space by Kris Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2020

Courtyard Public Space

by Kris Lin

Client: Gemdale Group

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Courtyard Public Space

Courtyard is a public space designed for the lobby and foyer of a residential development in central Shenyang, China. The space covers 600 square meters and forms the main route used by residents on the way home. The design concept is based on the three-entry home of traditional Chinese architecture, arranged as an outer court, an inner courtyard and an inner house. An installation named Bamboo Sound marks the lobby and gallery. A water promenade with a bridge, a pool, a gable, a tea room and plum blossom shapes the courtyard scene.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Courtyard Public Space is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Courtyard Public Space is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Courtyard Public Space splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: courtyard
This project is a public space in the lobby and foyer located in a high-end residential area in the center of Shenyang. It is the only way for the residents of this community to go home. The designers hope to use the Chinese courtyard as the design concept to create a spiritual homeward journey.
Dimensions & Packaging: 600sqm
Tags: courtyard, Chinese courtyard, three-entry home, high-end residential area, traditional Chinese architecture
Production Technology: The water promenade symbolizes the road to return home. The five garden elements of the bridge, pool, gable, tea room, and plum blossom shape the courtyard space and scene. The overwhelming sceneries take away the bothering of the mundane world. The dazzling scenery is the euphemism of objects and mood.
Design Challenge: The inspiration comes from the courtyard style design method of three-entry home in traditional Chinese architecture to create a public space with a three-entry model of the outer court-inner courtyard-inner house.
Research: This project is a public space in the lobby and foyer located in a high-end residential area in the center of Shenyang. It is the only way for the residents of this community to go home. The designers hope to use the Chinese courtyard as the design concept to create a spiritual homeward journey.
Inspiration: Three-entry home
The inspiration comes from the courtyard style design method of three-entry home in traditional Chinese architecture to create a public space with a three-entry model of the outer court-inner courtyard-inner house.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2019 in Shenyang,China and finished in October 2019 in Shenyang,China, and was exhibited in Shenyang,China in October 2019.
Operation Flow: 1.Outer court-lobby and gallery space:The installation art Bamboo Sound conveying Chinese traditional culture.
2.Inner courtyard-promenade, the process of spiritual precipitation:The water promenade symbolizes the road to return home. The five garden elements of the bridge, pool, gable, tea room, and plum blossom shape the courtyard space and scene.
3.Inner house:After the precipitation of the mind, the exhaustion from the body was washed away, and finally returned to the warm home.
Team Members: Kris Lin, Jiayu Yang
Image Credits: Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer KLID 2019