City Lounge Station City Lounge Station by Yard Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Golden A' Design Award in Social Design Competition Category.
GoldSocial· 2024
City Lounge Station City Lounge Station
by Yard Studio
Client: Yard Studio
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Social Category
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About City Lounge Station City Lounge Station
The life in a city is usually fast-paced and self-enclosed. The designer hopes to create a temporary homelike lounge in the city through a lighting box with warmth. The project is a special box located in the city center, serving as a warm light in the city. It provides a home-like rest stop for city workers in busy areas, offering convenient services such as a place for short breaks, drinking water, charging stations, first-aid kits, and various other amenities.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
City Lounge Station City Lounge Station is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. City Lounge Station City Lounge Station is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. City Lounge Station City Lounge Station creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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- Unique Properties
- The project is at an intersection of two busy roads where is close to the Tianyi Square subway station at the CBD of Ningbo's old city. It provides convenient services to citizens, for examples, short breaks, drink water, charge phones, access to medical kit and other facilities.
The project is box modeled stations, which can be mass produced and distributed in any corners of a city. All components are prefabricated in the factory, which can be assembled on site in a very short time. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Size:3.6m x 7.6m x 3.3m
Total area：28 Square - Tags
- City Station,Yongai E Home,City Post,Lounge
- Production Technology
- The project is of steel structure.
The project is box modeled stations, which can be mass produced and distributed in any corners of a city. All components are prefabricated in the factory, which can be assembled on site in a very short time.
All components are prefabricated in the factory, which can be assembled on site in a very short time. - Design Challenge
- Given the location of the project in the downtown area surrounded by lights on commercial streets, we pourposely designed a low-key and special box to provide a home-like station for those who work along the busy streets.
It is a warm light on the street, sharing the care from the city. It becomes the cultural identity of a city home, quietly waiting in the city center for the next passerby who needs shelter from the wind and rain. - Research
- The life in a city is usually fast-paced and self-enclosed. The designer hopes to create a temporary homelike lounge in the city through a lighting box with warmth. It looks like an object from outer space, floating on the ground, and supported by a large scale, suspended steel structure. It is a homelike shelter provides solace to anyone in need.
- Inspiration
- Given the location of the project in the downtown area surrounded by lights on commercial streets, the designer pourposely designed a low-key and special box to provide a home-like station for those who work along the busy streets.
It is a warm light on the street, sharing the care from the city. It becomes the cultural identity of a city home, quietly waiting in the city center for the next passerby who needs shelter from the wind and rain. - Project Duration
- The project was launched in Ningbo in February 2022 and completed in December
- Team Members
- Chief Designer:Yang Bingqing
Designer:Zhang Yiling
Designer:Zhang Jialiang
Designer:Wang Zheqi
Internship:Chen Kelun
Internship:Liu Fei - Image Credits
- Photographer：Pu Yan
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