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Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Zhejiang Pinghu Sports Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Zhejiang Pinghu Sports Center by Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu, designed for International Frederic Rolland Architecture, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
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.
Regarding Zhejiang Pinghu Sports Center
Zhejiang Pinghu is a sports center in Pinghu City, planned as a public park for exercise and leisure. The total site area is 146,204.13 square meters. The facade uses abstract forms drawn from traditional wooden structures and frames of the Jiangnan region. Local ginkgo trees, leaf textures and colors shape the landscape. An 800 meter air running track allows visitors to follow exercise data in real time. A cage basketball park, family fitness areas and courts for bocci and air volleyball serve all ages. The surfaces reduce slipping and the risk of injury.
About Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu
Link+ Architects is a space design firm that integrates culture, art, fashion and high technology to enhance our clients' brand images through disruptive solutions and experiences.
Award Record
Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2022 - 2023 to 2023 - 2024 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/161151
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/161151
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!161151
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/343024
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zhejiang Pinghu Sports Center
- Function
- Sports Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Black, Gainsboro, Dim Gray, Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- International Frederic Rolland Architecture
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Frederic Rolland, Jia Jiong and Wang Hanlu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #161151
Credits
- Team
- Frederic Rolland, JIA Jiong, WANG Hanlu, Polly Lo ROLLAND, NIU Like, ZHENG Jianwen, ZHANG Huan, HE Jintao, XU Bo, LI Bin, SHI Yanping and ZHOU Xuesong
- Image Credits
- 5: Photographer SANQIAN VISUAL IMAGE ART, 2023.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Based on the unique architectural and humanistic texture of Jiangnan, the architectural design extracts traditional architectural elements, such as wooden structure and pivot frame, in a modern and abstract way and uses them to transform the building facade, so as to achieve the overall effect of economic and aesthetic integration. The landscape design incorporates local ginkgo trees in Pinghu City, and uses ginkgo leaf texture and color as embellishments to form a unique facade expression and overall environmental governance features.
- Inspiration
- The renovation design adopts the overhead bridge, fitness footpath and landscape pavement, and realizes the functional connection with the concept of three-dimensional ribbon. The architectural scale is reshaped, the landscape scale is more suitable for viewing, and the natural ecology is organically combined and brings new vitality. This open, diverse and adaptable project brings an all-weather civic sports park that provides a multi-functional and immersive experience.
- Challenge
- The Pinghu Sports Center planned to host some events of the 10th Games of Jiaxing. The reconstruction project should be completed in about 100 days in order to ensure that the Games of Jiaxing be held on schedule, and this was a great test for design, construction arrangement, team cooperation and so on. The project time limit was tight and the task was heavy. With the support of many parties and the cooperation of team members, the project realized high-quality acceleration, and finally the acceptance was successfully completed on May 20, 2023.
- Realization and Technology
- The air smart runway adopts hybrid plastic paving and integrates a number of technologies such as intelligent information equipment and AI, so that people can see their own amount of exercise when exercising, and perceive the happiness and effect of exercise. The ground of the basketball park is made of concrete foundation and the surface is made of SES rubber suspended sports flooring. The children's playground and the senior recreation area adopt pitch foundation, and the surface layers of the two are respectively silicon PU system and artificial turf, this can prevent slip and reduce the risk of sports injuries.
- Operation and Interaction
- New vitality of the smart venue: When people run on the 800-meter-long blue and white air track, they can scan the QR code to monitor running data in real time, and can compete with other runners, detect temperature, humidity and other data and receive exercise reminders. Sports facilities for all ages: Cage basketball park, family fitness and entertainment area, bocci and air volleyball courts for the elderly and other venues.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2022 in Shanghai and finished in December 2022 in Shanghai.
- Specifications
- Total site area: 146,204.13 m². The design of the reconstruction and expansion project of Pinghu Sports Center is configured according to the provincial professional sports event standards, so as to meet the competition function requirements of the 10th Games of Jiaxing and the needs of national fitness.
- Keywords
- Publicness, Intellectualization, Involvement, Riverside landscape, Leisure
