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Yuan Qi Lu Receives the A' Design Award for Calm Black Residence in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yuan Qi Lu for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Calm Black Residence by Yuan Qi Lu, designed for Qy Interior Design Studio, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Calm Black Residence
Calm Black is a residential interior design for a 99 square meter home with three rooms in New Taipei City. Black, grey and white form the base tones, combined with concrete, iron, titanium plated metal, marble and cultured stone. The original enclosed kitchen was opened and a bar counter links the kitchen with the living room, dining area and study. A raised floor, a low quartz stone wall, a concrete wall and an arch structure above the dining table divide the public area without blocking it. Curved ceiling lines soften the exposed beams.
About Yuan Qi Lu
"QY INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO" believes that the design is based on the close observation to life. We are good at planning the appropriate layout based on the needs of customers, and presenting the appropriate spatial expression for different styles of interior through the combination of materials, colors and construction methods.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yuan Qi Lu 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. 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/141452
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/141452
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!141452
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/332550
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Calm Black Residence
- Function
- Residence
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Black, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Qy Interior Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yuan Qi Lu
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #141452
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The deigner make the space fashionable but not icy or sharp. In the public space, the concrete and iron pieces with different materials, show a gradual color spectrum,and the curved wall surfaces and cambered black lines on the edge of ceiling. The designer creates a titanium plating metal coated structure of arch model above the dining table, and the bold modelling as cabin, not only separates the different spaces and also weakens the sense of presence of beam ably
- Inspiration
- In response to the owner's preference of modern style, the designer takes the fundamental tone with three colors of black, grey, and white, interspersed with many kinds of materials as concrete, iron, titanium plating metal, marble, and natural cultured stone, to make fashionable colors showing the exquisite and level, and also to separate the space without obvious trace, to endow flexible functional separation for the space in a way that does not interrupt the spatial continuity.
- Research
- Due to the limited space conditions, the designer purposely opens up the original independent kitchen, to create a semi-open kitchen space with a bar table, and makes clever division for the public area through the concrete wall, arch modeling, elevated floor, and quartz stone low wall. As the material, line, and modelling intersperse and change, it is to run through the dimensional theme of " Calm Black ".
- Challenge
- How to modify the abrupt beam in the interior of the space and meet the owners' preference for modern style is the key task of the designer. For this purpose, the designer adopts multiple materials interspersed, arc ceiling outline and line edge, and arch modelling, to decorate the heavy beam column in public area and daughter room, and pour the exquisite feeling for modern space's fundamental tone at the same time.
- Realization and Technology
- The designer gently delimits the different functions of public space in an introverted way. The gray cultured stone paved entryway metope defines the space theme. The designer elevates the study floor designedly, and places a parapet made of quartz stone material with meticulous black grain in the white background; through the height difference and low stone wall, the space is apart but not blocked. To enlarge the space vision, the designer replaces the traditional bookcase with the simple black iron pieces.
- Operation and Interaction
- According to the use demand of two generations, and to make the 99-square-meter space more open, the designer gets through the original independent kitchen space, and through the bar counter design, to make a semi-open kitchen that cleverly connects with the living room, study, and dining table, so that the family members can interact with each other easily even if being in different areas. In the living room and study area, respectively through the marble TV wall with storage and display function, and iron shelf with lighting, the designer makes the public area not just a family leisure space, but more with the display function, so that the home is as an art gallery in life style.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project located in New Taipei City.
- Specifications
- This is house is 99 square meters. with three rooms. In the home with the fundamental tone of contemporary metropolis style, the designer creates the ingenious "field changing" for public space with multiple material and color change, and hidden but effective floor design, and also makes the space flexible in the consistent atmosphere base because of the rich detail change.
- Keywords
- Interior, Design, modern style, black
