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Ren Xiaoyu Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Yuyuyu Restaurant in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Ren Xiaoyu acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Yuyuyu Restaurant by Ren Xiaoyu, designed for 1-Cube Design. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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.

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 Yuyuyu Restaurant

There is quite a lot of these mixed contemporary designs on the market here in China today, usually based ontraditional designs but with either modern materials or new expressions. Yuyuyu is a Chinese restaurant, designer have created a new way to express Oriental design, a new Installation composed of lines and dots, those are extended from the door to the inside of the restaurant. With the change of times, people's aesthetic appreciation is also changing. For contemporary Oriental design, innovation is very necessary.

About Ren Xiaoyu

Since establishing 1-Cube design in 2014, Ren Xiaoyu has embarked on a road of developing his own style in design. As an architect and interior designer, he dedicated to researching and exploring the behaviours of people in the context of the new era, and the relationship between experience and space. The types of practice projects are diverse and mostly revolve around people's functional or spiritual needs in space. With innovative design strategies and great aesthetic value, his excellent works have won worldwide recognition and many renowned international design awards.

Award Record

Ren Xiaoyu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2019 - 2020 edition 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Yuyuyu Restaurant
Function
Restaurant
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Black, Dim Gray and Gray
Images
5
Client
1-Cube Design

The Recognition

Laureate
Ren Xiaoyu
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#87301

Credits

Team
Xiaoyu Ren
Image Credits
Photographer Xiaocong Nie,2018.

Design Details

Unique Properties
This is a Chinese restaurant, the designer have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Inspiration
We sets a simple Chinese decoration on the wall of the dining area, which is combined the vertical lines with the outline of the mountain. Meanwhile, the pine, stone and white sand express the simple and restrained Chinese aesthetics. The end of the dining area is made up of a screen, which depicts the picture of a fish passing through the lotuses. It constitutes the center of vision.
Research
The designer boldly used the array device composed of lines and dots, those are extended from the door to the inside of the restaurant, which blurred the internal and external boundaries and increased the visibility of the line of sight. The device is used from the door to the partition inside the dining room and the ceiling in the dining area.
Challenge
Traditional Chinese restaurant, how to give new features and details, designers have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Realization and Technology
We used the array installation composed of lines and dots, those are extended from the door to the inside of the restaurant, which blurred the internal and external boundaries and increased the visibility of the line of sight. The device is used from the door to the partition inside the dining room and the ceiling in the dining area.
Operation and Interaction
The entire space is made of the materials that include ferrous metal, wood, and grey stone of the floor. Thus, they are quite in line with the restaurant's steady, restrained temperament. Designers have abandoned traditional symbolic elements and boldly used lines and points to design. It is intended to express the oriental mood, and to create a feeling of "peaceful comfort" that could not be experienced in the past traditional Chinese restaurants where the worldliness is far too strong.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in October 2018 in Shenzhen and finished in March 2019 in Shenzhen.
Specifications
YUYUYU Restaurant is a 3,700 square feet Chinese restaurant.
Keywords
Ren Xiaoyu, restaurant design, 1-Cube Design, Chinese restaurant

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