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Vipshop China Co., Ltd Receives the Silver A' Design Award for The Satori Harbor Library in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Vipshop China Co., Ltd for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Satori Harbor Library by Vipshop China Co., Ltd, designed for Vip.com, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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.
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 The Satori Harbor Library
The Satori Harbor is a library located inside a corporate headquarters in Guangzhou. The library is arranged as an abstract harbor city where readers can wander among books. A gallery displays paintings collected from many countries, placed without hierarchy. A circular window at the end of a corridor frames a small view of the city. A boat form is built with steel framing and coated with stucco. Printed fabric screens show facades of old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor. Walls and floors are finished in stucco, and the curved steps use beige terrazzo.
About Vipshop China Co., Ltd
Vip.com (NYSE: VIPS) is an e-commerce platform established in 2008. Pioneering the flash sales model of “selective brand, deep discount, limited offering”, Vip.com covers wide product categories ranging from apparels, shoes & bags, cosmetics, maternal and child products, home goods to foods and more. So far, Vip.com has cooperated with over 30000 brands around the world. In Q2 2021, Vip.com reached annual net revenue of 29.6 billion RMB, with 221.5 million total annual orders and 2.43 million average daily orders. Today, Vip.com records 300 million registered members. Since its IPO on 23rd March, 2012 in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to 30th Jun.
Award Record
This recognition makes Vipshop China Co., Ltd 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/128159
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128159
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128159
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/312178
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://reurl.cc/xO10Ob
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Satori Harbor Library
- Function
- Library
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Chocolate, Silver, Dark Gray, Light Gray and Coral
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Vip.com
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Vipshop China Co., Ltd
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128159
Credits
- Team
- Yu Ting, Guo Yuchen, Yang Siqi, Zhan Beidi, Pu Shengrui, Studio Yuda, Dai Yunfeng, Wu Xiaoyan, Guo Jianv, Zhao Ruyi (Alignment Studio Shanghai), Zhang Minmin, Shi Jianglong, Kuang Jing, Zhu Busen, Hu Lei, Chloe Zhang, Yu Junfeng, Li Sha, Liu Hui and Luo Zhiyue
- Image Credits
- CreatAR Images
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The 19th floor is a city within the city. The most important place is the gallery, a re-interpretation of the European art saloon. The gallery walls are covered with painting collected across world placed in a non-hierarchical fashion. At the end of the haowu corridor is a circular window, capturing a miniature corner of the city. Yu Ting seeks to create an obscure experience of space and time through the meandering experience through light and darkness.
- Inspiration
- November 2020, Wutopia Lab completes the Satori Harbor, a culturally symbolic library situated in VIPshop's new headquarters. Yu Ting, the Founder & Chief Architect of Wutopia Lab, sees the library materializing the complex mechanism of the world-an abstract harbor city where the readers can wander through books and experience their moments of enlightenment and deliverance. Satori Harbor symbolizes a moral place for that of practice of life.
- Research
- The owners repeatedly emphasized that Vipshop originated in Guangzhou's old 13 hongs, which was the only port during the closed time, open to the outside world at the time. In a way, Vipshop inherited the spirit of the old 13 hongs, they brought the good things from abroad back to China. Chinese cities and ports are separate and there is a distance between them. After a long discussion, we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
- Challenge
- Structure, fire partition. This is a new building, but the library has a larger load than the original, the load requirements have been increased. The owner was persistent in introducing the elevation of the thirteen rows into the design. Finally we printed the elevation of the thirteen rows on the roller blinds, when needed the roller blinds slowly fall and the elevation of the thirteen rows will appear. It's hard to do regular site visits due to the pandemic.
- Realization and Technology
- The whole space is basically covered with stucco, we used it on the wall and the floor, except for the curved steps which we chose a beige terrazzo to differentiate it from the floor below. The ceiling is painted with white. The three circular openings on the left are windows to the rooms behind. The rosette window is a page taken out of the history of Guangzhou, they were a big hit in the 18th century. With stucco and terrazzo, the space can have more possibilities to hold more activities.
- Operation and Interaction
- The boat is constructed with steel framing and coated with stucco, and the white screens are made of technical fabric and we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them. The boat is a homage to the history of Guangzhou, back when the city was a harbor to host cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the western world, which is what VIP is about, a connecting point between customers and all the good valued merchandising from all around the world. A boat is also a symbol taken out of Taoism, to fearlessly ride the waves of life.
- Project Duration and Location
- Started in September 2019; Completed in October 2020; Location: 18-19F, South Tower of Vipshop Headquarters Building, Zone A, Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
- Specifications
- The whole building is open office space. The library should be different from these, and then we want that differentiation to be tapped into. We want our guests to feel a little different from the moment they enter the tunnel.
- Keywords
- Vipshop, Headquarter, Museum, The thirteen-hongs in Canton, Library, Tunnel, Port city, Haowu Port, Haowu Corridor
