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Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort by Gao Shanxing Wins the Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Gao Shanxing honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort by Gao Shanxing, designed for Gdf Ltd, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort
With its huge building volume, unique architectural shape, and professional ski track, Sunac Snow Park not only naturally integrates into the surrounding mountains of Dujiangyan, but also deeply blends into the lives of ice and snow lovers. At the same time, combined with regional characteristics, with Bashu culture as the core, cultural symbols, and architectural design are integrated to create a landmark building with unique regional characteristics.
About Gao Shanxing
Dr. Gao Shanxing has more than 20 years of architectural experience in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially in the field of commercial architecture. He is an experienced and passionate architect. Dr. Gao Shanxing has served as a principal designer or project leader for many different types of projects, including large complexes, shopping malls, office buildings, hotels, theaters, shows, snow resorts, etc. He is particularly good at dealing with complex and comprehensive projects including shopping malls, commercial buildings, hotels and residences. Prior to founding GDF, Dr.
Award Record
Gao Shanxing is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2022 - 2023 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
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/143947
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/143947
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!143947
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/286269
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sunac Snow Park Ski Resort
- Function
- Ski Resort
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Dim Gray, Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gdf Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gao Shanxing
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #143947
Credits
- Image Credits
- Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer Wu Qingshan,2021
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As one of the largest indoor ski resorts in the world,Chengdu Sunac Snow Park is located in Sunac Cultural Tourism City of Dujiangyan City,and has become a new landmark of local culture with a super large-scale building.The overall design concept uses "The auspicious clouds of Kang Tibetan" as the imagery,absorbing the momentum of moving clouds and flowing water,and combining the elements of Sichuan opera facial makeup to create a modern image.
- Inspiration
- We fully ingeniously integrate the unique regional national cultural symbols into the building,and make it fully organically integrated with the natural environment.With the image of "The auspicious clouds of Kang Tibetan",it absorbs the momentum of moving clouds and flowing water,and combines the Sichuan Opera mask elements deeply rooted in the cultural soil of Bashu with a long history to create a contemporary regional iconic image.
- Research
- Like artisans drawing on Facial Mask,the design uses rhino software to draw on the epidermis of an oversized building.The base controllable surface is divided into two parts of water and ski,which are drawn separately and then fitted back to the building form.In 3D to achieve construction feasible and easy to control the quality of the split board treatment.In the super-scale to deal with a variety of seams,and across the civil structure of the seam,and finally in the construction space three-dimensional positioning to achieve elegant architectural effects,to achieve the perfect fusion of art and technology.
- Challenge
- In order to realize the design concept of drawing Facial Mask,the design technology requirements are very precise to achieve complex curve depiction and color separation to achieve concave lighting and other effects on the architectural form which is already a curve.The construction process requires the same precision of space three-dimensional positioning, and needs to cross the deformation seam,overcome the lack of precision of civil construction and other problems,and finally achieve perfect results.
- Realization and Technology
- The difficulty of design is to achieve complete and coherent patterns in oversized buildings,while fully fitting the structure and achieving cost control.The design uses rhino software to accurately model to the depth of processing.The concave relationship of different separation aluminum plates and the treatment of concave lamps in the hexagonal shape of aluminum plates both take into account the precise layering logic relationship,and finally realize them precisely in the super-large-scale buildings.
- Operation and Interaction
- Sunac Snow Park adds a new leisure spot for skiing and recreational water to subtropical Chengdu, and has become a new cultural landmark with its oversized architecture.Facial Mask's image highlights Chengdu's cultural heritage and modernity,further enhancing the quality of Chengdu's "leisure capital",better publicizing Chengdu and spreading local culture.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was completed on May 18,2020 in Chengdu,China,and officially opened on June 30,2020.
- Specifications
- Project size: 3956813 sq. ft
- Keywords
- locality,cultural symbols,parametric design,huge building volume
