Press Release
Oriental Zen Reception Center by Parn Shyr Design Receives the A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Parn Shyr Design for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Oriental Zen Reception Center by Parn Shyr Design, designed for PARN SHYR DESIGN Co., Ltd., has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Oriental Zen Reception Center
Oriental Zen is a reception center in Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The interior occupies a two-story building, and minimal design techniques were used to resolve the irregular shape and structural limits of the original space. A structural column on the first floor is clad in black painted metal and forms the main visual feature. Vertical metal lines link the floors and create a bamboo forest effect. Oriental elements such as lattices, calligraphy and a lotus pond artwork are combined with lighting so that light and shadow are interwoven. Green landscape is brought indoors.
About Parn Shyr Design
Founded in 1995, Parn Shyr Design, with its professional design team, spans across architecture, interior design, and landscape design, complemented by installation, floral, landscaping, and culture arts, with touches of poetry and elegance, have been the core design doctrine of Parn Shyr Design, striving to be an all-encompassing design firm.
Award Record
Parn Shyr Design is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/102433
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102433
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102433
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/274361
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Oriental Zen Reception Center
- Function
- Reception Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- PARN SHYR DESIGN Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Parn Shyr Design
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #102433
Credits
- Team
- Pei Chi Hung and Yung Hsi Peng
- Image Credits
- PARN SHYR DESIGN
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Ingeniously utilized structure and landscape construction techniques and paired them with lighting coordination so that light and shadow are interwoven, achieving a Zen visual effect. With the addition of oriental elements such as a bamboo forest, lattices, works of calligraphy, and lotuses, an oriental-styled artistic space full of was created. At the same time, the green landscape is introduced into the interior from the outdoors, presenting a modern garden impression rich in Zen style.
- Inspiration
- The reception center takes the theme of "Fashionable Oriental Zen" and draws inspiration from garden landscapes. The designer worked with the original structure of the two-story building and used minimalistic design techniques to cleverly resolve the irregularities and structural restrictions that existed in the space, further transforming defects into advantages, and creating a transparent and open artistic space.
- Research
- In this project, sustainable metal building materials were utilized to form raised vertical lines, which connects every floor indoors. Also, materials such as black bake-painted metal pieces, wood pieces, smoky gray, black glass, striped carpet, wallpaper, black acrylic plates, and snow fox marble slabs were used to present modern fashion and Zen elements. In addition, the designer also made an in-depth understanding and application of green building and green building materials.
- Challenge
- A bold design featuring an aesthetically embellished and revamped structural column as the main visual focus was implemented on the first floor. For the second floor, the front-end vista provided a transparent visual effect to replace originally incomplete platform that cannot bear too much weight, so as to elevate the interior as well as connected the cultural section of the second floor. The design not only brings relief to the irregularity and limitation of the original space but synergize the original landscaping element and artist calligraphy pieces in dramatically elevating the aura of culture and art.
- Realization and Technology
- With a modern and fashionable palette of Zen-style materials, such as black-color metal, darkened mirror glass, black-color crystal acetate, grey-color paint color, linear-pattern ebony, brown-color sandblasted glass, striped and monochrome carpet, linear-striped wallpaper, and snow-white-color marble, etc., they complete and complement one another very well. Basic Non-Toxic and Non-Hazardous Types: Unpolluted and slightly processed decorative materials that are natural with zero.
- Operation and Interaction
- Through complementing this raised vertical line with landscape construction techniques, interior spaces on every floor are interconnected, creating a bamboo-forest-like visual effect, which stretches upward. Adding oriental elements such as a bamboo forest and lattices and combining them with lighting design presents a visual effect where light and shadow are interwoven. Calligraphy works written in the cursive script on the walls and the semi-stereoscopic lotus pond oil painting installation art construct the impression of a modern garden in the interior.
- Project Duration and Location
- Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan
- Specifications
- Within the main design feature on the first floor having concealed the original structural column with its painted black metallic finishing soaring upward. The sparkling white masonry floor guides into the entire first-floor space all the way in echoing with the masonry materials on both the benchtops of the sales control counter and bar area. As the vista at the reception desk area was extended through the transparent glass, the metal tubing behind exhibits a tree-like symbolism. The floor pattern in the gents and ladies' bathrooms takes after the ebony pattern in the bar area with strong visual contrast.
- Keywords
- Zen style, Green building, Forest garden, Artistic style, Orientalism
