Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Ren Community Art Gallery by Wei Zhou
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Wei Zhou for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ren Community Art Gallery by Wei Zhou, designed for BW Architect, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Ren Community Art Gallery
Ren Community is an art gallery located in a small urban space in Hangzhou, China. The interior measures 13 meters long, 4.2 meters wide and 5.4 meters high. Along the long axis, the gallery is divided into three halls: front, middle and rear. The halls flow into one another and create layered, open areas. Changes in height and enclosure give the space a sense of rhythm. Skylights in the front and rear halls bring in natural light. White microcement covers the surfaces for a pure appearance. The design offers a quiet, inward space within a busy city.
About Wei Zhou
Designer Zhou Wei, currently living in Hangzhou, China, graduated from the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts and Barcelona University School of Fine Arts. Awards: 2023 "MUSE Design Award" Restaurant Space Gold Award The work was nominated for the British Dezen Awards in 2022 and 2018. Hong Kong APIAD Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards 2019, 2018 and 2008 "Andrew Martin" International Interior Design Awards 2016 In 2013, ID+C Interior was selected as the "Top 10 Young Designers in China."
Award Record
With this recognition, Wei Zhou 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
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/139362
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139362
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139362
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/330221
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ren Community Art Gallery
- Function
- Art Gallery
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Midnight Blue, Black, Gray, Dark Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- BW Architect
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Zhou
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #139362
Credits
- Team
- Xin Bu
- Image Credits
- Zhang Jianing - Hanmo photograph, Ren Community Art Gallery, 2021 Optional; Zhang Jianing - Hanmo photograph, Ren Community Art Gallery, 2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As for spatial structure, it is divided into three halls: front, middle and rear. The various spaces penetrate and flow with each other, forming multiple ambiguous spaces; through the change of height and encirclement, the sense of spatial rhythm is given.
- Inspiration
- "Architecture should remain silent and let light and wind express" – Japanese architect Tadao Ando. From the perspective of architectural philosophy, the elements of nature are used to integrate architecture and nature. The museum is designed as an introverted space with no cluttered streets in sight, but the skylights in the front and back halls give the space a sacred temperament.
- Research
- The idea of the design came mainly from two artists, one is the artist Yves Klein, and the other is the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Klein blue is a deep and pure color, applied to the design of the museum to give space a kind of vitality, Tadao Ando's design philosophy is deeply impressed to me, can extract the relationship between many people and nature, people and society, from this starting point of thinking, so that the meaning of design to another level.
- Challenge
- Create a very rich spatial experience through the redesign of the space by the designer in a very small space.
- Realization and Technology
- The whole gallery is in white microcement so that it is visually pure. It also shows its diversity with the various of the space and the flow of the natural light. Therefore, the entire space would eventually appear both pure and various.
- Operation and Interaction
- The original intention of the design was to provide a quiet space in the noisy city, so I wanted the feeling of the space to be inward when designing. More is to make changes in the interior space itself, and there is less connection with the outdoors.
- Project Duration and Location
- Product located at Wulinli Pocket Park, Xiaofeng Road, Hangzhou, China
- Specifications
- space size 13m*4.2m*5.4m
- Keywords
- Gallery, Exhibition, Interior, Minimalism, Klein
