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Cang Ma Mountain Residence by Public Architectural Design Institute Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Public Architectural Design Institute acknowledged for architecture, building and structure 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 Cang Ma Mountain Residence by Public Architectural Design Institute, designed for Qingdao Institute of Public Architectural Design Co., Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure 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 Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Cang Ma Mountain Residence
Cang Ma Mountain is a residential complex built in Qingdao, China. The project provides resettlement housing for more than 1,300 households from four nearby villages. The site covers about 130,000 square meters and holds residential buildings of four to eight storeys and commercial buildings of two to three storeys. The sloping terrain is divided into separate platforms that follow the original form of the hills. Red tiles, fences, stone mills, tea fields and an ancient well recall rural life and local culture.
About Public Architectural Design Institute
Founded in 1982, Qingdao Institute of Public Architectural Design Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Institute of Public) is one of the finest first-class institutes of architectural design in Qingdao. As an eminent institute with 30 years of history in Qingdao, Institute of Public has undertaken various engineering design of more than 3,000, in the meantime, it has received more than 80 design awards not only citywide but also province wide and nationwide. In 2012, the company raised the scale of operation and technical superiority up to a higher level, and therefore entered a new stage of development.
Award Record
With this recognition, Public Architectural Design Institute is 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
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/108673
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/108673
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!108673
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/282264
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cang Ma Mountain Residence
- Function
- Residence
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Slate Gray, Light Gray, Light Slate Gray, Silver and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Qingdao Institute of Public Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Public Architectural Design Institute
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #108673
Credits
- Team
- Liu Mengtao, Li Kun and Han Chengyi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in the beautiful Cang Ma Mountain Tourist Resort in the West Coast of Qingdao, China. With good ecological environment, the project site has beautiful hills and abundant ecological vegetation, which is known as an important ecological central region in the west coast area.
- Inspiration
- The west coast village has a profound cultural heritage, and the site also has the characteristics of mountains and waters in the "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". In such an environment with both context and nature, the architects insist on using design to solve the practical problems of the villagers.
- Research
- The purpose of this project is to solve the resettlement needs of the surrounding four natural villages, and it is necessary to build economic development houses to provide basic guarantee for the economic income of villagers.
- Challenge
- One of the challenges is the limit of the terrain and topography, another is the lack of regional cultural characteristics. Making full use of the slope terrain, the architects divide the terrain into a relatively independent platform group, which organically fits the terrain and retains the original mountain form of the site. To solve the lack of cultural characteristics, the architects use abstracted and simplified design elements as simple materials and flexible color matching in details, successfully rebuilding the style and features of Cang Ma Mountain Residence.
- Realization and Technology
- The design needs to meet the resettlement for a total of more than 1,300 households. It should have pastoral characteristics, keep the old memories, and provide the villagers with cultural and entertainment humanistic care. Taken advantage of the natural landscape, the building design is themed with mountain residence, which is conveyed by the elements as red tiles, green trees, fences, stone mills, tea fields and the ancient well.
- Operation and Interaction
- Respecting the villagers' lifestyle, the starting point of the design is the natural mountain landscape and themed with rural culture. The architects create rural residence that conforms to contemporary thinking and lifestyle. Continuing the spatial form of primitive villages, the design carries pastoral nostalgia and reflects modern civilization.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2018 and finished in June 2020 in Cang Ma Mountain in Qingdao, China.
- Specifications
- The overall land scale of the project is about 130,000 square meters, with an above-ground construction volume of about 131,400 square meters, an underground construction area of 19,800 square meters, and a total construction area of nearly 151,200 square meters. The above-ground buildings are mainly divided into two types: residential and public buildings. Residential buildings are mainly 4-to-8 storey buildings, and public buildings are 2-to-3 storey commercial buildings.
- Keywords
- Building, Residence, Mountain, Architecture, Landscape
