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Z Square Group and Manifold Lab Team Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Nestwood Gallery in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Z Square Group and Manifold Lab Team 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 Nestwood Gallery by Z Square Group and Manifold Lab Team, designed for Z Square Group. 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.
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.
About Nestwood Gallery
Nestwood is a gallery and office interior created as a shared space for creative industries. The interior covers 600 square meters over two floors. Generative design methods shaped the organic forms of the space. Robotic digital fabrication was used to build the complex geometry in marine grade stainless steel, glass fiber reinforced gypsum, marble and perforated aluminum. An organically shaped reception marks the entrance and is backed by a small bio-pond. A central atrium with naturally inspired walls and a staircase serves as a hub for exchanging ideas.
Award Record
This recognition makes Z Square Group and Manifold Lab Team 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/147249
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147249
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147249
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/340615
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.manifoldlab.ca/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nestwood Gallery
- Function
- Gallery
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Z Square Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Z Square Group and Manifold Lab Team
- Country
- Canada
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147249
Credits
- Team
- Mengdi Zhen, Nan Zeng, Steven Avis, Ying Guo and Ken Yu
- Image Credits
- Photographer, Hubert Ye Hua, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Nestwood Gallery is an oasis shared by multiple creative industries. The design process uses experimental generative design to create an organic space. Each spatial detail is further fabricated with robots using the latest digital fabrication technology to replicate the complex geometry from the computer. An organically shaped reception marks the entrance and greets the visitors, backed by a mini bio-pond: a mini-ecosystem is balanced by the atrium light, nitrogen, recycled water and minor species. The visitor is then welcomed by naturally inspired atrium walls, where a stair case leads the visitor to the upper level.
- Inspiration
- Mathematical forms inspire the organic office space that exists in nature - the design seeks balance between beauty and ration. Program wise, the oasis is aimed to be a creative exchange space for designers and creative industries. Multiple experimental fabrication methods were explored before finalizing the design to realize the designers' vision.
- Research
- Design research: generative design, NURBs, catmull-clark Subdivision Material research: robotics, GFRG, stainless steel bending, laser cutting, CNC marble
- Challenge
- The creative challenge is to realize designers full vision outside the industry's comfort zone. Manifold Lab experimented multiple digital fabrication method to create the full architectural scale space.
- Realization and Technology
- Stainless Steel 316L Digital Fabrication: Cold forming & robotic folding GFRG: Robotic Forming Perforated Metal: Laser Cut Coffee Table: Robotic & CNC
- Operation and Interaction
- The central atrium act as a hub for design teams to exchange ideas.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project started in 2020 and finished in September 2022 in Toronto.
- Specifications
- 600 square meter, 2 floors office 30 m (l) x 10 m (w) x 7m (h) Digital Fabrication Material Specs: 316L Marine Grade Stainless Steel, Glass Fiber Reinforced Gympsum, Nero Marquina Marble, Perforated Aluminum with Flurocarbon Coating, Plated Fiberglass & CNC Baltic Birch
- Keywords
- office, digital fabrication, z square group, manifold lab, computational design, generative design
