No.1 Courtyard Club by Ying Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
IronInterior· 2020
No.1 Courtyard Club
by Ying Zhang
Client: Fenhom·Urodesign studio
A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About No.1 Courtyard Club
No.1 Courtyard is a community entrance lobby and club interior of about 2000 square meters. The interior includes a home lobby, an underground swimming pool, a gym, a yoga room, a multi-function room and an underground courtyard. Curved forms drawn from nature are combined with stone in the reception area, which works as a transition space. Materials include wood finishes, marble, brushed stainless steel and wooden grating. The ceiling height reaches 5600 millimeters. The design brings a calm natural atmosphere into the interior.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
No.1 Courtyard Club 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. No.1 Courtyard Club 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. No.1 Courtyard Club 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 integration of natural elements in No.1 Courtyard Club challenges traditional interior design boundaries - could you elaborate on how wind flow, plant growth, and light movement influenced your spatial narrative?
In the No.1 Courtyard Club, wooden grilles channel airflow to create a gentle breeze, while plants grow over time into living sculptures. Skylights and grilles produce dynamic light patterns. The interplay of wind, vegetation, and light forms a natural narrative, breaking static boundaries and expressing the philosophy of living in harmony with nature.
The underground pool area in No.1 Courtyard Club creates an intriguing sense of tranquility reminiscent of a bamboo forest - what inspired this specific design choice and how does it enhance the visitor experience?
Drawing inspiration from the calm and layered qualities of a bamboo grove, wooden grilles enclose the underground pool area and create dynamic light-and-shadow patterns. The result is a serene, private space where visitors can feel relaxed, enhancing the clubhouse’s luxurious and tranquil ambiance.
As the recipient of the Iron A' Design Award for No.1 Courtyard Club, how did your experience at prestigious firms like SOM and BIG influence your approach to merging architectural body language with interior design in this project?
SOM’s precise spatial logic helped balance building structure with interior functions, organizing circulation in areas like the pool and gym. BIG’s narrative approach inspired the integration of natural elements, with wooden grilles and light-and-shadow patterns linking inside and out. Together, these strategies unify architecture and interior design, contributing to the project’s Iron A’ Design Award win.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Everything begins with nature, and all the beautiful life in the world is conceived by nature. In sunac · xi 'an no.1 courtyard home lobby project as a boutique community entrance lobby and community club,
Fenhom · Urodesign studio emphasizes the integration of architecture and nature as well as the fluidity of space. It is perfect, quiet, simple, comfortable, warm and innovative, making it the first choice for the leisure visitors of the urban elite. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Area: 2000sqm
- Tags
- Sales Office，light，Interior，club, nature
- Production Technology
- wood finishings,marble, brushed stainless steel, wooden grating
- Design Challenge
- How to create a sense of nature in the interior
- Research
- Unlike the bright and cheerful lobby, the underground clubhouse on the first floor is quiet and mysterious.
Out of the elevator car first arrived at the reception area, the reception area USES the arc elements extracted from nature combined with the hard stone, giving people a soft visual experience without losing the sense of strength, a good role as a "transition" space. Step into the hallway, reach the end of the hallway, open the door, smell the water, walk around the stairs, and you'll reach the pool. The underground pool is filled with a sense of tranquility like a bamboo forest, and the designers hope that guests who use the space can find a world to talk to, without outside interference, and enjoy the moment. - Inspiration
- In this project, the designer extracted design elements from nature. The airflow of wind, the growth of plants, and the wandering of light are all part of the story of space.
- Project Duration
- The project site is in QingDao City, China. Now the design is completed and expected to begin construction in October 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The club includes a home lobby and underground pool, gym, yoga room, multi-function room and underground courtyard. The height of 5600 mm.
- Patents
- Designed by Fenhom·Urodesign
- Team Members
- Chief Designer: Ying Zhang and Design Team: Ban、Sheng Liang 、Mingzhi Chen
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Fenhom·Urodesign studio
Image #2: Fenhom·Urodesign studio
Image #3: Fenhom·Urodesign studio
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Image #5: Fenhom·Urodesign studio
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