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Waterway School Library by Design Action Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Design Action of Design Action & Associates Limited 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/ Waterway School Library by Design Action of Design Action & Associates Limited has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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.
More About Waterway School Library
Waterway is a school library interior of 3900 square feet designed for a school in Hong Kong. The layout follows a diagonal axis that replaces the former linear plan. The borrowing desk and the new book display face the entrance, which supports contact between librarians and students. The bookshelf extends into a staircase where students can sit and read, and the same staircase seats up to 30 people as a teaching area when the projector screen is lowered. Sea blue, cement gray and wood tones recall the nearby sea and landscape.
About Design Action
Design Action & Associates LTD is a young, dynamic, innovative and developed rapidly local design company. All of our creativity designs can fulfil clients’ needs as our spatial designs can maximize the use of limited space and lightings is able to provide harmony surroundings. We are still exploring perfect designs to fit the changing world.
About Design Action & Associates Limited
Design Action & Associates LTD ( DAA) base on Hong Kong and established in 2014 and founder Mr. Vincent Li. DAA is a young, dynamic, innovative and developed rapidly local design company. All of our creativity designs can fulfil clients’ needs as
Award Record
Design Action of Design Action & Associates Limited is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2015 - 2016 to 2022 - 2023 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/142898
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/142898
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!142898
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/161703
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://designaction.com.hk
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Waterway School Library
- Function
- School Library
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Rosy Brown, Silver, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Design Action
- Country
- Hong Kong (China)
- Brand
- Design Action & Associates Limited
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #142898
Credits
- Team
- Vincent Li and Mancy Li
- Image Credits
- Design Action
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The library is ship full of knowledge, good learning atmosphere is a breeze that leads the students sail to their destinations. Getting knowledge helps the students find a breakthrough to their study or develop other skills. The designer would like to create a relaxing, self-paced study space, which attracts them to stay behind after classes and fall in love with knowledge.
- Inspiration
- This project is on the Lantau Island. The island is surrounded by sea with tremendous nature landscape. In densely populated Hong Kong, it is rare to have a good balance of high-rise residence and nature. The designer hopes this project links to this unique geographical environment. The main colors of the library are sea blue, cement and wood. They symbolize reading as a sea that nurture the concrete structured city, natural landscape, and a peaceful, relaxing experience.
- Research
- The original spatial design was linear and classical, it feels strict and had low usage. The front desk was facing opposite side of the entrance and divided the bookshelves into two areas. This was inconvenient for the students, so it needs a huge change. In addition, the original setting felt closed and have a 2.4-meter-high suspended metal ceiling. The designer need to breakthrough this traditional structure, increase the book capacity and keep the air-conditioning system. To add more dimension on students learning experience and attract students to stay in the library.
- Challenge
- The designer used diagonal linear design as main axis, that changes the boring spatial design lively. When entering the library, the borrowing desk and new book display are in sight. This not only encourage interaction between students and librarians but increase the borrowing rate. On the other hand, the designer created an open and sharing concept for the planning to create a new feeling to attract students.
- Realization and Technology
- Plastic laminate, Vinyl sheet, Paint, Glass
- Operation and Interaction
- Once enter the library, the borrowing desk and bookshelf are in the sight, with a hanging book recommendation on top of the shelf. This setting makes it easier to interact between the librarians and students, which might increase the borrowing rate. The stretch of the bookshelf is a set of staircase for student to sit and read. When the projector screen scrolls down, this staircase with the capacity of 30 people become a teaching area. Besides the staircase is self-study area. When students sit on the bar chair, they can admire the nature view outside the window.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in April 2022 in Ho Yu College and Primary School (Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen), Hong Kong.
- Keywords
- Library, School, Educational, Waterway, Secondary School, Design Action, Ho Yu College and Primary School - Sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen
