Encounter Office Space by Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Encounter Office Space by Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie, designed for B&t Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Silver A' Design Award Explained

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

More About Encounter Office Space

Encounter is an office space designed for a design studio in Fujian Province, China. The project places a quiet interior within a busy street block. The entrance is set back and opens laterally to create a buffer between inside and outside. A sunken reception and seating area gives a sense of visual dislocation and psychological enclosure. Curved door openings soften the straight lines of the plan. Glass walls blur the boundary between interior and exterior, and the space is supported by a single column. Materials include micro cement, steel plate and clear glass.

About Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie

He is the initiator of Quanzhou Young Designers Association Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan Member of Interior Design Branch of Architectural Society of China Member of CIID 52 (Quanzhou) Professional Committee Secretary-general of the CIID Shishi Office 2017 CIID. 52 division designer of the year 40UNDER40 outstanding youth of Chinese (Fujian) design Top 30 new business space awards in China HI-Design design design Grand Prix, Fujian, Gold Award The Golden Hall Award. 2019 interior design competition, the outstanding work of the year for commercial space

Award Record

With this recognition, Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

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/109201
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/109201
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!109201
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/283407

Media Contact

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Encounter Office Space
Function: Office Space
Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors: Midnight Blue, Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black and Dark Slate Gray
Images: 5
Client: B&t Design

The Recognition

Laureate: Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #109201

Credits

Team: Hanliang Huang and Wenbai Xie
Image Credits: Chen Rongkun's space photograph.2020

Design Details

Unique Properties: It means to leave a quiet place in a noisy street, to create an unexpected encounter, and to meet by chance in the integration of time, art and space. The interior and exterior boundaries are blurred in the inner and outer gray space, and there are different views in the upper and lower parts of the room. The sinking reception area forms a sense of dislocation visually and is enclosed psychologically. Art is the language of space, and decoration is not only the decoration of space.
Inspiration: As a design-oriented office space, we always think about how to sort out the office and environment, people, sort out the logical tonality inside the space, and balance the integration of design and art. Therefore, we return to the design issue of "experiential office" as the key consideration, and properly handle the relationship between conceptual ideas and functionalism, hoping to present a space with a sense of ceremony and design, as well as a degree of human experience.
Research: We are committed to strive for greater added value and quality of life for owners. We always firmly believe that an excellent space design must fully serve the use of enterprises and living rooms, and ultimately indirectly bring volume / profit to the owners and improve the living quality of living rooms.
Challenge: The difficult part of the whole project is the creation of the art gallery, and the whole space is supported by only one column. Everything else is glass
Realization and Technology: Swedish Becco paint, micro cement, steel plate, transparent acrylic, clear glass.
Operation and Interaction: I have changed several office spaces for many years, but I haven't found the kind of space I want. Then when I see this space at the first sight, it makes people happy, in a small corner of the busy block. And the space is high enough to be attractive. So we quickly decided to make such a quiet place.
Project Duration and Location: February 2020 - July 2020, Fujian Province, China
Specifications: Nature, pure embodiment of the meaning of space.
Keywords: Quiet, pure, fashion, art, form