Colors and the Origin Gym by Chien-Yuan Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
IronInterior· 2022
Colors and the Origin Gym
Client: TOTEM Interior Design
A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Colors and the Origin Gym
Taking Z Power, the steel-structured logo at the counter as the core value of the design, the space embodies the coexistence of power, gentleness, and aesthetics. The designer applies colors expressing happiness, hope, power and stability onto basic elements symbolizing simplicity and origin. The positive energy created at the gym offers users experiences of purity, beauty and confidence. The main concept of the tone is borrowed from Pantone 2021 Colors of the Year, which is the combination of Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Colors and the Origin Gym is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Colors and the Origin Gym is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Colors and the Origin Gym is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative use of Pantone 2021 Colors of the Year in Colors and the Origin Gym creates a powerful visual narrative - could you elaborate on how these specific colors contribute to the psychological and emotional experience of gym users?
In international color theory, the combination of yellow and gray represents "stability with hope." "Menstrual color" is considered a natural, normal physiological phenomenon, where yellow symbolizes vitality and hope, while gray represents stability and tranquility.After the outbreak of the pandemic, the use of color energy allowed people to look forward to overcoming grief, taking firm steps, and embracing hope and anticipation.
The exposed structural elements in Colors and the Origin Gym, such as bare brick walls and visible wires, create a striking contrast with the vibrant color scheme - what inspired this deliberate juxtaposition of raw materials and bold colors?
From an Eastern perspective: the Buddha's "original face" and Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" philosophical concepts—returning to the essential elements of matter as they should be (exposed brick walls and visible wires)—combined with the Western Pantone 2021 Color of the Year, the bold color combinations make it vibrant and full of life—and this is the foundation of fitness activities.
The 99-square-meter space of Colors and the Origin Gym demonstrates remarkable spatial efficiency - how did you approach the challenge of balancing functional workout areas with aesthetic elements while maintaining the flow of energy throughout the space?
Through the combination of vibrant elements, colors, and powerful diagonal lines, a lively and energetic atmosphere is created, naturally generating a "people-oriented" approach that directly corresponds to efficiency, thereby strengthening the body and mind, transmitting positive energy, and accumulating hope and happiness for the future.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Taking Z Power, the steel-structured logo at the counter as the core value of the design, the space embodies the coexistence of power, gentleness, and aesthetics. The designer applies colors expressing happiness, hope, power and stability onto basic elements symbolizing simplicity and origin. The positive energy created at the gym offers users experiences of purity, beauty and confidence.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project is 99 square meter.
- Tags
- Interior, Gym, Colorful, Pantone, Deconstruction
- Production Technology
- The designer applies techniques of deconstruction and the idea of less is more, to balance the use of vibrant colors. The steel structured bars installed on the gate are kept as they look like originally; without use of cement and monolithic ornament, the bare brick walls are shown; the architectural concrete sets up a wall of simplicity, while the wires and beams are exposed without extra veneers covered on the ceiling.
- Design Challenge
- The designer combines simple yet effective color blocks and geometric shapes with naturally bold texture. Vivid design languages therefore contribute to users' vigorous energy. The natural elements symbolizing "the origin" are set as the starting point of the gym. While the vibrant color tone is an extension to subconsciously motivate someone's mind, the design languages are effective to promote the concept of energetic workout and well-being.
- Research
- While the pandemic rages all over the world, the design can express and send out messages of unshakable power, hope and happiness, through language of colors and geometry. Misfortune and disaster will come to an end one day, when a greater future is waiting for us somewhere.
- Inspiration
- The main concept of the tone is borrowed from PANTONE 2021 Colors of the Year: the combination of Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow, symbolizing solid and dependable quality from the well-thought-out feelings, and power of hope that is bright and warm.
- Project Duration
- This project finished in July 2021 in New Taipei City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- Once entering the space, brick walls and the taboo-breaking "period red" form as an opening page welcoming customers on the left side. The red of "vitality and adventure" coordinates with the grass green of "life, health, and nature." The arrangement of the bare brick walls, which are commonly hidden under the surface, emphasizes the concept of simplicity, essence and the origin.
- Team Members
- Designer: Chien-Yuan Wang
Designer: Hui-Chen Fang - Image Credits
- Image #1-5: Photographer Chi-Shou Wang, Colors and the Origin, 2021.
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