Hui Whisky Bar by Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects honored 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Hui Whisky Bar by Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects, designed for Zen-In Architects. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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.

More About Hui Whisky Bar

Hui is a whisky bar designed to also serve as a public living room for a residential community. The interior measures 12 meters by 10 meters, with a height of 3.7 meters. Arched windows and doors can be closed for privacy or opened so that outdoor guests can speak with people inside and with the bartender. Five linear threads of different materials give the space a shared sense of direction. Brick, rock slabs, teak, metal and mirror stainless steel create rough, smooth, reflective and contrasting surfaces. The floor tiles emphasize the main axis.

About Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects

Liu Yu is an architect who pays close attention to society and the regional environment. His creative inspiration comes partly from understanding the natural and regional environment, and partly from solving the problems of the project itself. He connected this regional relationship with the relationship between people, trying to find a symbiotic relationship between people and space environment, and between people and different forms of business.

Award Record

This recognition makes Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects 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/141509
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/141509
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!141509
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/255659
Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/3MAomg0

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Hui Whisky Bar
Function: Whisky Bar
Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors: Black, Sienna, Saddle Brown, Dim Gray and Peru
Images: 5
Client: Zen-In Architects

The Recognition

Laureate: Yu Liu - Zen-In Architects
Country: China
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2022 - 2023
Design ID: #141509

Credits

Image Credits: Photographer Jun Wang, overall view of the interior, 2021.; Photographer Jun Wang, external view, 2021.; Photographer Jun Wang, entrance facade, 2021.; Photographer Jun Wang, The hall, 2021.

Design Details

Unique Properties: Aar is a place of relaxation and comfort, a place of perception and contradiction, or a place of wine cultural interaction. The designer has summarized four keywords: sedation, tranquility, evocation, and illusion. Which correspond to rough, smooth, reflective, and contrasting material in design, to bring people a variety of feelings
Inspiration: The designers found that the arched windows and doors are different from the surrounding buildings. In the blank state, there is no clear boundary between the interior and exterior. After entering the interior, the space was evenly divided into two parts with a clear axis and symmetry. The designer wanted to start with the bar's characteristics and extend outdoor feelings into the indoor space so that the interior and outdoor environment could achieve a harmonious integration.
Research: The bar has located in a utopian community around Beijing. The designer asked the residents and tourists in the community what the bar they dreamed of was like standards answers were public, interactive, and regional through questionnaires and data collection. They hope that the bar here can not only for get together with friends but also make strangers communicate with each other like neighbors through data investigation and final design, which has become their ideal living room.
Challenge: The challenge of the project is about the low-cost design within a small space. From a design point of view, the designer needed to find the characteristics and spatial logic with a limited budget, and combine this spatial logic with function. In a social sense, the bar is more like a community living room, a place for friends and cultural exchange, and more like an outdoor plaza space that extends into the indoor space. The bar connects the whole community and brings people closer to each other.
Realization and Technology: The design suggests five linear with different materials. Overall， these clues create a sense of speed in the same direction of the space. And the tiles on the floor are suggestive and directive, bringing functional lights emphasizing the spatial axis. The curved installation at the top fills the space with more sense, such as the mirror stainless steel was used to express the reflection and distortion of the space scene.
Operation and Interaction: The space is not only a bar but also a public living room for the community. Its existence is private but public. When all doors and windows are closed, privacy and closure was the main element for people. While windows open, they present an open space that makes the indoor and outdoor guests can easily communicate. The guests on the other side of the window can directly communicate with the indoor or bartender, thus the indoor bar extends to the outdoor, which increases the interaction between people.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in October 2020 in Qinhuangdao and finished in February 2021 in Qinhuangdao
Specifications: The entire space is 12 meters long, 10 meters long, and 3.7 meters high
Keywords: Bar, Interior Design, China, Aranya, Commercial