Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Jianjing Office and Cultural Space by Gaofeng Zhu
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Gaofeng Zhu for interior space and exhibition design
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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 Jianjing Office and Cultural Space by Gaofeng Zhu, designed for Funs Design. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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.
About Jianjing Office and Cultural Space
Jianjing is an office and cultural space of 160 square meters in Suzhou, China. The interior uses calm and elegant colors with natural, plain materials, and takes inspiration from an old tree. A courtyard landscape is created inside the enclosed space, so the seasons, a gentle air flow and comfortable temperatures can be experienced indoors. Tall wood grille walls divide the plan into three halls of different sizes and uses, and grille details continue in other areas. Floors are raised to different heights to support the flow of air.
About Gaofeng Zhu
The designer is the Co-founder and Design Director of FUNS DESIGN, the Consultant of FUNS LANDSCAPE ENGINEERING, the Editorial Board Member of "Industry Standard for Garden Making In China", and the "Distinguished Teacher" of China Garden Industry. FUNS DESIGN is a competent company, winning numerous major international design awards, which is able to offer high quality, creativity, innovative ideas and designs to their clients, allowing it to be one of the outstanding company in the realted scope within the industry.
Award Record
With this recognition, Gaofeng Zhu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/91638
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/91638
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!91638
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/258962
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jianjing Office and Cultural Space
- Function
- Office and Cultural Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Gray and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Funs Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gaofeng Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #91638
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Dou Qiang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Based on the elegant colors, this interior design project is presented in the state of quiescence and calmness that manifesting a number of natural, plain and courtyard elements. The designer presenting the design concept of "elegant and plain home", which is developed by the one-of-a-kind design logic and life aesthetics, has been making the all-out effort to design the office with the interdependent relationship between human homes and nature.
- Inspiration
- An old tree has inspired the infinite creativities of coexistence between human and nature. The designer, furthermore, establishes the landscape of courtyard in the enclosed space, in which the atmospheres of the undisturbed quiescence from the modern technology and of the changes of seasons create the mild flow of indoor air and the comfy experience of temperature.
- Research
- The halls are decorated with the tall wood grille walls, which are expanded to the grille adornments in other areas, thus grille design showing the individual but continuous, various and intriguing indoor scenes, which are willingly embraced by the people with different moods, thus every scene can bring about distinguishing and constant characteristics of space.
- Challenge
- For the hardest part of this project is to bring something unique that no one has ever done before into the indoor space. To accomplish this task, the designer creates a courtyard view in a closed space for the owner to experience the four seasons and to feel gentle indoor air flow and comfortable temperature without even leaving the indoor space and the disturbance of modern technology.
- Realization and Technology
- The design plan considering the people senses to the spatial elements of shapes, materials, colors and textures lead people to encounter their own emotions, essences, true selves and moods, thus people will aware of the importance of natural protections, and furthermore establishing the interdependent relationship between human and nature.
- Operation and Interaction
- The office is not specifically designed by functions that is, however, constructed into the open and private, the plain and exquisite, the invigorating and serenity, etc. The designer simplifies the design plan that, by means of controlling the temperature and humidity, delicately divides the limited indoor space into the three halls with distinct sizes and functions, which are accordingly wide and bright, flowing and enlivening, and natural and interactive. The floors elevated in different heights, corresponding to the other spatial elements, manifest the flexible relationships enhancing the smooth air flow.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished on the 10th of July 2019 in Suzhou, China.
- Specifications
- The project is 160 square meters.
- Keywords
- interior, space, office, cultural, oriental
