Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall by Wei Zhou Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Wei Zhou recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall by Wei Zhou, designed for BW Architect, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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 scored 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.

Regarding Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall

Amblem Home Furnishing is an exhibition and office interior created inside a former factory building in Hangzhou. The original hall is 60 meters long and 24 meters wide. Office rooms that need daylight are placed along the outer walls. The open center is used as a flexible public area and is lit by an elliptical skylight. The layout combines lines taken from constructivist painting with elements of traditional Chinese gardens. Interwoven stairs and hollow openings form an inner garden with changing views along two verandas.

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

This recognition makes Wei Zhou a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2022 - 2023 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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/140295
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/140295
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!140295
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/330221

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall
Function: Exhibition Hall
Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors: Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dark Olive Green, Light Steel Blue and Dim Gray
Images: 5
Client: BW Architect

The Recognition

Laureate: Wei Zhou
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #140295

Credits

Team: Zhe Xu
Image Credits: Photographer Jianing Zhang-Hanmo Visual Studio, Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall, 2021 Optional; Photographer Jianing Zhang-Hanmo Visual Studio, Amblem Home Furnishing Exhibition Hall, 2021

Design Details

Unique Properties: Incorporating constructivism into space, the collision between rationality and irrationality creates a rich and confusing spatial effect. Interesting geometric gardens make the space rigorous, symmetrical, focus perspective, and rationalistic sense of ritual and worship. Volume stairs with rich space and functions: interweaving and running through each other in the space, and opening in the space. All kinds of hollows produce all kinds of wonderful spatial effects.
Inspiration: The designer extracted a line from a constructivist painting and put it into the project plane. This painting is by Russian structuralist EL.Lissitzky, named "Proun". The "rational" constructivist painting, with a seemingly "irrational" style, has been inserted. Some are in the composition. The designer also integrated the elements of ancient Chinese gardens. Visitors can swim along the veranda on both sides, but see completely different and changing spatial effects.
Research: This project is mainly influenced by Chinese Taoist thoughts and Russian constructivist masters. I have some shallow opinions on Taoist thoughts, hoping to be integrated with my design. My assistant designer suggested that rational lines should be incorporated to give more changes. I thought it was very good, so I adopted it. After work, we all look for many good works and get inspiration from them. I quickly browse a lot of articles in my free time on weekdays, and when I see the excellent ones, I will collect them first, and wait until the rest day to browse them carefully.
Challenge: The main challenge of this project is to create an interesting space experience in the monotonous surrounding environment. As offices and exhibition halls, we need to pay great attention to people's feelings in them. The blocks of this work are interrelated and interwoven, and how to give people a space with rich space but clear moving lines is also one of the challenges.
Realization and Technology: In a 60-meter-deep factory building, in order to meet various office functions and create an internally rich space, the designer's strategy is to combine all office spaces that need lighting, discharge along the wall. The spare space in the middle is designed as a flexible public activity place. The problem of poor lighting in the middle is solved by opening a elliptical sky window.
Operation and Interaction: The project is located in the economic development zone of Linping District, Hangzhou. It is a marketing building with office and reception functions. Like most industrial parks, the monotonous factory buildings around the project are densely packed, and the landscape is quite poor. So the designer and the owner immediately decided to seek the landscape inward and create an "inner garden". As reflected in the Taoist thought of "small hidden in the wild, big hidden in the city", you may not have to go to a quiet place in the wild to find the leisure interest and beauty.
Project Duration and Location: project was finished May, 2021, through two years, located at the economic development zone of Linping District, Hangzhou.
Specifications: The original factory building is 60 meters long and 24 meters wide, with 8 columns horizontally, 7.5 meters between columns, 4 columns vertically, and 6 meters between columns.
Keywords: office, Exhibition Hall, industrial park, Interior