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Jade Villa Three Dimensional Eco-House by Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design

Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen acknowledged for construction and real estate projects design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 14, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Construction and Real Estate Projects Design category for Jade Villa Three Dimensional Eco-House by Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen, designed for Topway. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Jade Villa Three Dimensional Eco-House

Jade Villa is a residential complex designed as a three dimensional eco house. The project takes inspiration from the landscape of Wu Hu and places a hanging garden along the east west axis, giving each unit a private garden with a storey height of 6.2 metres. High performance concrete and low polluting building materials are used. A rainwater harvesting system, green vegetation and a rain garden support ecological restoration. Open transitional spaces link interior and exterior areas and encourage contact between neighbours. The interior layout is adjustable for flexible use of space.

About Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen

Topway Design was founded in 2002 in Shanghai, China, and set up a branch in Canada in 2008, with architectural design Class A qualification, specializing in architectural planning and design of real estate development projects. Topway Design covers various fields, including residential buildings, urban complexes, commercial property, industrial real estate, office buildings, and star hotels, focusing on providing whole-process services for the overall design in three sectors, namely, residential quarters, commercial complexes, and industrial parks.

Award Record

With this recognition, Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Award

The A' Real Estate Design Award is an international architecture competition recognizing good real estate projects by architects and enterprises worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to real estate designers, architectural firms, interior designers and construction companies from all countries. Typical entries include residential complexes, commercial buildings, industrial properties, mixed-use developments, hospitality establishments and educational facilities. The awarded real estate designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/real-estate

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Jade Villa Three Dimensional Eco-House
Function
Three Dimensional Eco-House
Category
Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture
Colors
Light Blue, Gray, Dark Gray, Lavender and Dim Gray
Images
5
Client
Topway

The Recognition

Laureate
Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang and Dan Wen
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2023 - 2024
Design ID
#159687

Credits

Team
Wenlve Lu, Bin Zhao, Ning Wang, Dan Wen
Image Credits
TOPWAY

Design Details

Unique Properties
THE JADE VILLA, called fourth-generation Courtyard House, is an innovative residential design. It borrows from the landscape of Wu Hu to create a building adorned with a spring mountain scenery. The long-span and large-scale architecture features a modern striking facade. It forms a unique "forest" cultural symbol and blends natural ecology with modern urban aesthetics, transforming the typical steel and cement landscape and achieving a harmonious coexistence between human habitat and nature.
Inspiration
Based on the design concept of "human-centric, eco-friendly, friendly neighborliness, intelligence and convenience, and innovation and technology", the community creates a supernatural modern, enchanting ecological human habitat. With a theme of "creating a building adorned with a spring mountain scenery, arriving home as if stepping into a verdant forest", it achieves the integration of modern landscape and artistic life. The unique hanging garden helps create a three-dimensional eco-house.
Research
This project underscores "context" rather than "form" in terms of design skills, showing a simple modern architecture through the strategically appropriate arrangement of shapes, sequences, profiles, and light changes. Thanks to the exclusive hanging garden, each unit owns a private garden with both privacy and safety, which improves applicability and comfort. This design improves the city environment and living conditions, promoting industrial upgrading and economic growth.
Challenge
In building a new type of house - the JADE VILLA - we've faced challenges in terms of technology and materials. The building materials are mainly green and insulating to improve durability, sustainability and reduce environmental pollution. The hanging garden applies a brand-new stereo ecological planting technology, combined with systematic regular pruning and maintenance, to strike a balance between human needs and the natural environment.
Realization and Technology
Aside from the use of high-performance concrete and other structural materials, the community is constructed with eco-friendly, low-polluting building materials. At the same time, it utilizes the rainwater harvesting system, green vegetation, rain garden, and other approaches to restore the ecology. Part of the building adopts an empty space design that serves as a transitional space between the interior and exterior, offering a comfortable environment for enhanced neighborhood relations.
Operation and Interaction
The community utilizes the surrounding terrain, water features, and other natural elements to harmonize with the local natural environment. The hanging garden runs from east to west and is characterized by a staggered sequence of greenery. This detail ensures the common area of each unit is filled with both bright sunlight and quality greenspaces. The interior layout is mobile and adjustable, allowing free combination and efficient use of the space.
Project Duration and Location
The project finished in July 2023.
Specifications
Floor area: 159,021㎡; Site area: 60,448㎡; Garden's storey height: 6.2m.
Keywords
Three-dimensional eco-house, natural oxygen bar, hanging garden, subclimate in an independent unit, mini-socializing in the community, ecological restoration, eco-friendly building materials, integration into the natural environment, automatic irrigation system.

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