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Eason Zhu Receives the Golden A' Design Award for The Animal Backbone Retail Store in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Eason Zhu recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Animal Backbone Retail Store by Eason Zhu, designed for FununitDesign, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About The Animal Backbone Retail Store
The Animal Backbone is a retail store interior located in Shanghai, inside a historic building that once served as a slaughterhouse and is now a cultural and creative center. The space covers 100 square meters and is built with metal plate, mirror and glass. The layout follows the walking track of a cat, and a circle divides the inner and outer areas. Doors and windows allow views between the two zones, while living room, dining, kitchen and bathroom scenes are arranged inside. The design invites reflection on people and animals sharing the city.
About Eason Zhu
Fununit Design is committed to providing architectural, interior, installation, and product design services to clients in different fields. The international Design team provides a new direction of Design exploration for the commercial market through experimental, narrative, humorous, and other methods. Fun is an expression of pure identity, the most desirable luxury of modern society. We are trying to find the essence, relationship, truth, and simple touching between architecture, space, and every unit of things.
Award Record
This recognition makes Eason Zhu 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/130661
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130661
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130661
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/317069
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://fununitdesign.com/design_detail?id=12
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Animal Backbone Retail Store
- Function
- Retail Store
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- FununitDesign
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Eason Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130661
Credits
- Team
- Case Designer, Eason Zhu Alex Lin, Design Team and Erhuan Chai Qianlan Lu Guanhang Jiang
- Image Credits
- Fununit Design & Zheng Shi
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This once the first slaughterhouse in the Far East, where countless lives were got killed, it is fascinating but attracts a lot of tourists. Today, this building has become a famous cultural and creative industry center in Shanghai. Respecting the tens of thousands of animal souls, we are always looking for a way to have a commemorative architecture, trying to make an icy building to echo the concrete, and to arouse the painful memories and facts of killing animals because of lust.
- Inspiration
- Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. There are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.
- Research
- Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. In such a space, there are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.
- Challenge
- On the other side of the commemorative space, it wants to bring more thinking about the harmonious symbiosis between humans and animals. The meaning of the symbiotic space "animal backbone" is to bear the burden of history with the animal, Pursuing humans and animals how to better live in harmony in the historical environment and share the wonderful experience brought by this city. pidan proposed the concept of stray animal adoption, providing long-term supply of food for the stray cats and dogs in the 1933 old field.
- Realization and Technology
- metal plate,mirror,glass
- Operation and Interaction
- The whole project was initially thought to be shared by people and animals. Both of them live in the urban space, and they have their own interactive space and interactive space. The animal behavior is implanted into the space design, and in the premise, satisfy the function , through the simplest processing method to provide a platform to assist the pidan's brand and ideas.
- Keywords
- animal,Moving line, Commemorative
