Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Goes to Open Work Architectural Pavilion by Melek Zeynep Bulut
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Melek Zeynep Bulut for fine arts and art installation design
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Open Work Architectural Pavilion by Melek Zeynep Bulut, designed for Melekzeynepstudio, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Fine Arts and Art Installation Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Open Work Architectural Pavilion
Open Work is a performative spatial space. It is shaped around the metaphors of consciousness and thresholds. Abstract gates and the plan created by surfaces that function like instruments turn into an experience of exchange with the visitor's touch. It intentionally emphasizes monumentality but as visitors interact with the space, this untouchability gives way to an auditory quality and flexibility. This theatrical space is not grounded anywhere and carries its roots along with it, the system is mobile. This structure is also a gentle question mark to the emerging new world right before humans.
About Melek Zeynep Bulut
Melek Zeynep Bulut's works are a synthesis of space, experimental architecture, behavioral sciences, urban design and visual arts. She focuses on the multi-layered system of material, experimental circulation fiction and human consciousness and examines and exhibits how existence and subjectivity are shaped by space. The space adopts a multilingual production technique among architecture, sculptures, installations, photography, performance, painting, video arts. The dynamic between the relationship between design and art, both very definite and very vague, that boundary has formed the main line of her work since the first decencies.
Award Record
Melek Zeynep Bulut is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Fine Arts and Art Installation Design Award
The A' Fine-Art Design Award is an international fine-art design competition recognizing best fine-art works by leading fine-art artists and creators worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to artists, painters, sculptors and ceramicists from all countries. Typical entries include sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, drawings and mixed media works. The awarded art designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/fine-art
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/155818
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/155818
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!155818
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/350119
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/48aoL2Q
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Open Work Architectural Pavilion
- Function
- Architectural Pavilion
- Category
- Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Black and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Melekzeynepstudio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Melek Zeynep Bulut
- Country
- Turkiye
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #155818
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Taran Wilkhu, OpenWork, 2023.; Photographer melekzeynepstudio, OpenWork, 2023.; Photographer Murat Germen, OpenWork, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Open Work is an experiment in spatial design where various disciplines collaborate. It is a multidisciplinary structure that combines architecture, sound design, engineering, chemical and material knowledge, as well as sculpture art. In today's design world, it transcends being defined and brings together multiple disciplines, yet it also establishes its own unique range by not conforming to any single discipline. This piece serves as a portal, behaving like a passage, speaking to the consciousness of the world and humanity.
- Inspiration
- Open Work is a performative spatial installation, a theatrical monument. It revolves around the metaphors of consciousness and thresholds addressing concepts such as power, belonging, boundary setting, and the representation of societal hierarchy on an existential ground throughout human history. It draws inspiration from universality.
- Research
- Throughout world history, we researched significant architectural and symbolic figures representing important historical milestones for humanity. Ancient patterns such as doors, borders, monuments, and ancient cities were explored. All of these led us to the fundamental lines and figures in the collective human consciousness. This became the most crucial part of our information and research process when designing a 'theatrical monument.'
- Challenge
- From a technical standpoint, we can say this: the work, being a structure that carries its groundwork alongside and is not tethered to the ground, required us to redesign our relationship with 'place' each time we established it on new ground. This was a crucial factor for us. Sociologically, creating a work that speaks universally and to humanity without a specific corner in today's world was not easy. Producing design as art, for everyone, and as a form of knowledge is a challenging aspect of our era. Everyone expects a narrative for today, but we aimed to create a transcendent work.
- Realization and Technology
- It consists of an independent 24 steel frame structure mounted on a spider like base platform that forms its own foundation. The frames are connected to this platform, and 3879 tubes are suspended from these frames. The connection and suspension details of the tubes are designed to allow both free oscillation and ensure safety, as seen in the attachments. Lighting elements are placed in sockets on this platform. The structure is entirely portable and can be disassembled and reassembled repeatedly, much like a modular system.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Open Work is an ironic monument composed of dynamic and sonorous surfaces, intentionally featuring a monumental design. With the visitor's engagement, this solid monument becomes more flexible and transforms into an interactive experience. The acoustic surfaces, made of moving tubes, continuously reshape randomly through human movement and wind, thus turning the monument into a dynamic structure. The visitor finds themselves shaping a swaying and sound-producing monument.
- Project Duration and Location
- The Open Work was produced in the early months of 2023 and exhibited in the courtyard of the historical Somerset House during the London Biennale throughout June 2023. In this exhibition, Open Work selected among 47 countries and 22 universities and it won the ‘Public Award’. Following this exhibition, it was featured in the London Design Festival in September 2023 and it was exhibited as a 'suspended monument' over the River Thames, within the London Skyline. Immediately afterwards, it was exhibited in Taksim Square in Istanbul in November 2023.
- Specifications
- Width 11 m x Depth 10.5 m x Height 7 m
- Keywords
- Experimental Space, Theatrical Monument, Pavilion, Open Work, Acik Yapit, Auditory Monument, Moving Monument, Portal, Portal Monument
