Press Release
Jia You Receives the A' Design Award for Song-Zhang-Kou Rural Housing in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
Jia You recognized for construction and real estate projects design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Song-Zhang-Kou Rural Housing by Jia You, designed for Bluetown Architects, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Construction and Real Estate Projects Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
What the A' Design Award Means
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.
Regarding Song-Zhang-Kou Rural Housing
Song-Zhang-Kou is a rural housing community in Siyang, Jiangsu, China. The design serves a mainly elderly population and keeps construction costs low. The houses are grouped in clusters that form sixteen village cores, which act as shared spaces for neighbors. Each home has a private courtyard used for a vegetable garden, storage and sun drying. The style is refined from traditional Northern Jiangsu architecture, with layered white gable walls and dark roof tiles, simplified to suit the budget. Solar panels are fitted to every unit.
Award Record
Jia You is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Award
The A' Real Estate Design Award is an international architecture competition recognizing good real estate projects by architects and enterprises worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to real estate designers, architectural firms, interior designers and construction companies from all countries. Entries typically include residential complexes, commercial buildings, industrial properties, mixed-use developments, hospitality establishments and educational facilities. Awarded real estate designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/real-estate
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/108010
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/108010
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!108010
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/281054
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.badesign.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Song-Zhang-Kou Rural Housing
- Function
- Rural Housing
- Category
- Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Sky Blue, Light Steel Blue, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Bluetown Architects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jia You
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #108010
Credits
- Team
- Jia You, Bin He, Sihang Wu, Haibo Qiu, Qimin Gao
- Image Credits
- Design: Bluetown Architects Photo Credit: Zhi-Yi Studio
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Song-Zhang-Kou New Rural Housing is in Siyan, a relatively backward town in North Jiangsu Province. This community was merged by 3 former villages which were aggravated hollowed in the rapid rural-urban transformation background. As a demonstration of new rural housing development, Song-Zhang-Kou project is aiming to address two major issues of the current rural community in China: preserve the collective lifestyle for the elderly population and keep a small budget for improvement. To meet the future tenants’ special needs of daily routine, our design team started with living locally and immersed in their daily life.
- Inspiration
- The cluster house grouping creates various village cores to give possibilities for neighborhood bonding; individual courtyard serves as private space for veggie garden, storage and sun-cure habit; housing style refined from traditional Northern Jiangsu Architecture and simplified to meet the budget.
- Challenge
- Preserve the collective lifestyle for the elderly population and keep a small budget for improvement.
- Realization and Technology
- Housing style refined from traditional Northern Jiangsu Architecture – layered white gable wall with dark roof tiles. However, the greatest challenge is to achieve a construction cost 70% lower than similar housing, while presenting the same level of aesthetic purpose. After considerable value engineering, traditional details get simplified; complicated decor replaced by contrast color-coated module; the beauty of hipped and gable roofing outline remained but type of roof tiles are standardized; door & window proportion calculated to support the best ventilation, natural lighting and views; solar panels added to all unit to eliminate the safety hazard of using tradition firewood stove.
- Operation and Interaction
- To preserve the collective lifestyle for the major elderly population, our design team started with living locally and immersed in their daily life. Then convert their raw demands including large storage and courtyard needs, later life habits, bonded neighborhood interaction etc. into the integrated design. Thus, in the final construction outcome, the cluster house grouping creates various village cores to give possibilities for neighborhood bonding; individual courtyard serves as private space for veggie garden, storage and sun-cure habit; housing style refined from traditional Northern Jiangsu Architecture - layered white gable wall with dark roof tiles - and simplified to meet the budget.
- Project Duration and Location
- Design Year: 2018 Built Year: 2020.05 Location: Siyang, Jiangsu, China
- Specifications
- Site: 365,333 sq m (3,932,419 sq ft) Building Area: 56,510 sq m (608,268 sq. ft)
- Keywords
- Rural Housing, Affordable, traditional Chinese Architecture, rural-urban transformation, elderly population, collective lifestyle
