Press Release
A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Hidden Home Residential Building by Ping-Hsin Chen
Ping-Hsin Chen recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Hidden Home Residential Building by Ping-Hsin Chen, designed for Bstudio, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
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 Hidden Home Residential Building
Hidden Home is a residential building located in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, with a property area of 542.8 square meters. The main structure is made of fair faced concrete and slate stones, combined with linear wooden grilles that resemble a square curtain. Massive olive green stones on the exterior give a solid appearance. Light passes through the wooden grilles, while vertical wooden shelves and furniture create a warm and calm interior. The layout is based on a courtyard, and a water wall with planting supports a relaxed and private family life.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ping-Hsin Chen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/104786
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104786
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104786
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/276526
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.b-studio.com.tw/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hidden Home Residential Building
- Function
- Residential Building
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Cornflower Blue, Sienna, Silver, Light Sky Blue and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Bstudio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ping-Hsin Chen
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #104786
Credits
- Image Credits
- Jeffrey Hsu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The houseowner, who is a successful entrepreneur, wants to live in a house with the exclusive world, where a new life of journey begins. The house exemplifies a castle which is safe and comfortable for the children. The designer creates for the houseowner a health-friendly green building which is the perfect dreamland for the family.
- Inspiration
- Creating a building making people feel relaxed and making people open mind in a building; creating a gesture making people interaction easier and making people feel the power of nature. The design of residential space is based on the courtyard that defines the laid-back lifestyle. The water wall and landscaping harmonize the real and imaginary features and create the comfortable space.
- Research
- The house is surrounded by the warm sunlight, greenery plants and fragrance of flowers whose vitality of nature embraces the family and creates the calm and invigorating scenery, thus ubiquitously showing the vitality of life.
- Realization and Technology
- The main structure of the building made of the fair-faced concrete and slate stones, together with the linear wooden grilles, artistically resembles a fascinating square curtain. As the light scattering through the wooden grilles, the house decorated with the vertical solid wooden shelves and furniture exposes the warm and serene feeling, preserves the penetrability of the space, spawns the composed oriental atmosphere, and shows the magnificent contemporary elegant textures.
- Operation and Interaction
- The massive olive-green stones constructed on building exterior manifest the majestic and poised impression. The plain textures of fair-faced concrete walls and wooden grilles accentuate the relationships between solid and airy, obstructing and penetrable, and fixed and flexible, thus creating the Zen artistic conception, ingeniously blocking the uncomfortable heat of sunlight, and securing the private lifestyle.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in May 2012 and locates in Taoyuan City, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- The property is 542.8 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior Design, Residential, Building, Space, Home
