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Li Chen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Victor Hydraulics Exhibition Hall in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Li Chen for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Victor Hydraulics Exhibition Hall by Li Chen has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 evaluated 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.
More About Victor Hydraulics Exhibition Hall
Victor Hydraulics is a corporate exhibition hall for an industrial hydraulics manufacturer, covering 780 square meters in Shaoyang City, China. A cantilevered block 20 meters long marks the entrance and rests on a single stress point formed by a customized steel structure. Italian natural travertine and woodgrain stone form the main surfaces, and stone wrapping covers the structural columns. Two fan-shaped facades and symmetrical curved steps guide visitor movement. A circular booth raises a large hydraulic system close to eye level, and a viewing platform at the end overlooks the hall.
About Li Chen
0103 Interior Design Studio is not a traditional interior design team, but a group of young and promising designers who consider design from the perspective of philosophy. We hope that underpinned by our understanding of contemporary art and unique viewpoints, we can interpret and disseminate our values through our design language, which can be achieved by learning politics, religions as well as culture essences of different regions, such as customs, traditional operas, dramas, paintings and calligraphies.
Award Record
This recognition makes Li Chen a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2023 - 2024 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/164679
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164679
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164679
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/309286
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Victor Hydraulics Exhibition Hall
- Function
- Exhibition Hall
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Light Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Li Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164679
Credits
- Team
- Lead designer：Zhang JunLin and Extension designer：Zhang JingYu
- Image Credits
- photographer：Liu Lei（Ueya photography）
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- I hope that all the VICTOR HYDRAULICS visitors can clearly perceive its independent character and respect for their self-developed industrial products in the global industry. I began to think about what kind of materials could be used in the space to unfold the story of VICTOR HYDRAULIC accurately and present its qualities in a meaningful space. I seek to visualize them, to form precise geometries in the space, to define and delimit spatial zones and the interconnectedness of spaces.
- Inspiration
- I planned a 20-meter long cantilevered block at the entrance of Victor Hydraulics exhibition hall, with only one stress point in the whole block, using a large customized steel structure as the base column of the stress point and the inner structure of the cantilevered block. In the first look, it has strong aggressiveness, which gives the visitors amazement and affirmation, and then it can drive the visitors to think.
- Research
- In this project commission, I learned from Peter Zumthor focusing on the delicate relation formed between inside and outside, public and private space as well as on how to begin a project, the path and the boundary. I also focus on the properties of materials, the complexities of shaping the atmosphere of a space and weighing the size and scale of the space. I kept measuring until everything was just right.
- Challenge
- Every product of VICTOR HYDRAULICS undergoes a process of repeated and rigorous refinement and testing, and every industrial designer and operator is a combination of craftsman and artist. VICTOR HYDRAULICS and I want visitors to feel the power that has been embedded in VICTOR HYDRAULICS for over 55 years, which is tenacity, dedication, professionalism, and also creativity, innovation, and strong vitality. VICTOR HYDRAULICS corporate exhibition hall should at the same time convey the possibilities of the future.
- Realization and Technology
- I decided to use Italian natural travertine and woodgrain stone as the main material of the space. Through natural weathering and corrosion, they both exhibit a unique and complex quality. Travertine textures and holes have been shaped by the power of nature to symbolize the spirit of eternity and resilience. Woodgrain stone is delicate and gentle with lines of grain that are as beautiful as a never-ending poem. Both are highly overlapped with the characters of VICTOR HYDRAULICS. At this point, I began to refine the connection of all the geometric forms within the space.
- Operation and Interaction
- Two tall fan-shaped facades block the view of the rear space, leaving only the cantilevered blocks extending to the back end. Passing the two fan-shaped facades, the circular booth lifted the large volume of the hydraulic system to almost flush with the line of sight height. This means that visitors can look around clearly the large volume of industrial products, as if to view a fine work of art.
- Project Duration and Location
- Time of duration：Five months Locations：Shaoyang City，China
- Keywords
- Exhibition hall，Industrial exhibition hall，Enterprise exhibition hall
