Press Release
Nantong Window Cultural Center by Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd honored for lighting products and fixtures design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Nantong Window Cultural Center by Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd, designed for Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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.
About Nantong Window Cultural Center
Nantong Window is an architectural lighting design for a cultural complex with a library, a cultural centre and archives. The lighting follows the building concept of birds and sea. Linear luminaires are placed inside the folded perforated aluminium curtain wall, so the light passes through the feather-like openings. Underground lamps with a colour temperature of 3000K illuminate the orange inner wall and ceiling. Luminaire positions and angles are calculated so that no lamp surface is visible from inside or outside. A DMX512 control system allows dynamic change of the facade.
About Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd
Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.(TJAD), formerly known as the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tongji University, was founded in 1958 and has now developed into a well-known large-scale design consulting group. With one hundred years' history and the profound cultural foundation of Tongji University, TJAD has accumulated rich experience in both engineering design and technical consultancy through continuous progress in the course of half a century. TJAD has the most extensive coverage of national qualifications.
Award Record
Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Award
The A' Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by best lighting designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to lighting designers, lighting architects, industrial design studios and lighting product manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include chandeliers, pendant lights, wall sconces, table lamps, floor lamps and outdoor lights. The awarded lighting designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/lighting
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/120326
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120326
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120326
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/302259
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.tjad.cn/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nantong Window Cultural Center
- Function
- Cultural Center
- Category
- Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Slate Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120326
Credits
- Team
- Xiu Yang, Limin Jiang, Yu Zhang, Yue Ma, Xingru Chen, Chen Bian, Wenjing Ge, Jiani Lu, Xi Luo and Ying Zhang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The installation position and angle of the luminaire have been carefully calculated to ensure that the surface of the lamp cannot be directly seen both indoors and outdoors, to achieve good visual comfort. The DMX512 control system is adopted to realize the overall dynamic change of the building facade. It can not only meet the daily needs of energy-saving, but also meet the needs of project operations in combination with significant holidays.
- Inspiration
- The project is located on the north side of the landscape park, which including a library, cultural center, and archives. The building used "Birds and Sea" as the design prototype, using a special folding panel curtain wall and a three-dimensional folding "feather" shaped perforated aluminum curtain wall system.
- Research
- After several discussions with the curtain wall consultant, the mockup experiment was introduced in the design stage.
- Challenge
- The installation and maintenance of lamps became the biggest challenge of the project.
- Realization and Technology
- Underground lamps with CRI90 and 3000K illumination color temperature is embedded in the underside of the building to illuminate the orange inner wall and ceiling, which strengthens the "bird" intention of the building.
- Operation and Interaction
- Through many experiments to determine the installation of lamps and curtain wall synchronization, and an openable design is reserved on the top of the aluminum curtain wall for easy maintenance.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2019 in Torino and finished in August 2020 in Rimini.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 30200 square meters.
- Keywords
- Lighting Design, Architectural Lighting, Functional, Visual Effects, Energy Control, Atmosphere
