Press Release
Gaojia Garden Urban Public Space by DDO Design Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
DDO Design honored for cultural heritage and culture industry design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category for Gaojia Garden Urban Public Space by DDO Design. The award was conferred within 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 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 Gaojia Garden Urban Public Space
Gaojia Garden is a tea house and cultural space located in quiet woods by the canal under Gongchen Bridge in Hangzhou. The interior covers 1200 square metres and recalls the Republic of China era. A corridor at the entrance combines new and old elements to form an art and culture passage that displays cultural relics and tells the history of the canal. The design preserves original elements of the Nanhua Building and joins them with modern techniques. Stone, cloth, wood, metal and leather are used, and a background wall of layered silk with embroidery marks the foyer.
Award Record
This recognition makes DDO Design a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award
The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Entries typically include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. Awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/cultural-heritage
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/131104
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131104
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131104
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/315737
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Gaojia Garden Urban Public Space
- Function
- Urban Public Space
- Category
- Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Royal Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Cornflower Blue and Dark Khaki
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- DDO Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131104
Credits
- Team
- Elaine Cheng, Rene Guan, Giacomo Liviabella, Tien Chen, Andy Xiao and Ivy Huang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Hangzhou Midao cultural creativity Co., Ltd; Photographer ADCC LIVING ART INSTITUTION
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Gaojia Garden situated in quiet woods by the canal under Gongchen Bridge in Hangzhou.The corridor is designed by combining both new and old elements to create an art and culture corridor.The design of Nanhua Building is to respect history and preserve original design elements left by combing with modern design techniques and modern forms of manifestation.A tea house in the Republic of China era takes shape.
- Inspiration
- Project Positioning:Culture and arts suiting both refined and popular tastes Create a simple and elegant life in a quiet environment with winding paths and surrounded by green woods, and reflect the art of life of the people by the canal by focusing on music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, incense and tea.
- Research
- The corridor connecting the entrance is designed by combining both new and old elements to create an art and culture corridor with profound historical connotation. Cultural relics of Gaojia Garden are mainly used to tell the stories behind Gaojia Garden, and old cultural objects in Gaojia Garden are used to unmask the history and culture of the canal, the wisdom of Confucian business culture and legends of Confucian businessmen. The corridor can not only increase the interest of visitors but also thoroughly reflect the history which truly realizes cultural inheritance and transmission
- Challenge
- In the traditional tea house, furniture of the "SURECCO"brand that represents the oriental elements in Chinese culture and some Shanghai-style furniture in the Republic of China era are used, and besides, some western elements are also integrated. The combination of colors of furnishing accessories integrates both the Eastern and Western cultures.
- Realization and Technology
- The traditional tea house is mainly built by using stone, cloth, wood, metal and leather materials. The background wall in the foyer is designed with spunk silk with partial embroidery. The spunk silk, which is long enough to reach the floor, is delicately wove in an overlapping way to give an effect of layering and to show the purity in the space and the peace in old days.
- Operation and Interaction
- The original intention of the design is to respect history and preserve original design elements left by combing with modern design techniques and modern forms of manifestation. A tea house in the Republic of China era, with the melodious sound of the harp, literati scholars gathered here taste tea, build connections, share thoughts and appreciate the culture of the Republic of China era. Tea and literati scholars create a wonderful atmosphere brimmed with the fragrance of tea and knowledge where literati scholars taste tea, appreciate traditional culture and look into the real world.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2020 andfinished in January 2021. The project located in Hangzhou.
- Keywords
- Municipal Protected Historic Site, Tea House, Urban Regeneration, Urban public space, Reuse of old buildings
