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Aesthetic Conflict Residential Apartment by Shi Zhe Sun Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Shi Zhe Sun 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 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Aesthetic Conflict Residential Apartment by Shi Zhe Sun, designed for Zewu Interior Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.

Regarding Aesthetic Conflict Residential Apartment

Aesthetic Conflict is a residential interior design for a 108 square meter apartment in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. An open plan links the living room, study and dining area into one shared public area. Titanium-plated metal plates, glass, black metal paint and aluminum give the rooms a modern technical character. Timber veneer, leather, timber flooring and wall fabric add a warm tone. The entrance is finished with tiles, and the storage doors are concealed behind dyed wood veneer and concrete planks. The project was completed in 2019.

Award Record

This recognition makes Shi Zhe Sun 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Aesthetic Conflict Residential Apartment
Function
Residential Apartment
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Black, Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
Zewu Interior Design

The Recognition

Laureate
Shi Zhe Sun
Country
Taiwan (China)
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#92226

Credits

Team
ZEWU DESIGN

Design Details

Unique Properties
As conflict is often used as the underlying tone of creative work for its drama without compromises under any given styling, therefore, the design team ran away from the conventional styling from material and color to the abstract functional and aesthetics discourse. High titanium-plated texture in contrast to the primal and rustic concrete plank, it created a start visual contrast, while the color and line work were installed with posh factor as a conflict to the harmony process.
Inspiration
The unique taste of the client who likes the modern look-and-feel of 3C tech products, and fancies a free lifestyle, the imagination for space was preserved with a naturalist view and the overall exquisite quality. The spirit of Less is More, the design team shaped the interior with a minimalist approach in forming a bi-polar aesthetics of cold and warm, and hard and soft, in order to strike a meticulous balance between technology and culture.
Research
As the conflict has always been opposite side of harmony, and as far as the designer is concerned, only the multi-level thinking can operate beyond the pre-defined styling frame. As the designer anchors on Conflict Aesthetics in forming a genuine aesthetics of synergized visual and tactile experiences, the public domain was treated with low-chroma scheme and refined material texture, while the private domain was treated with veneer, fabric and metal to create a contemporary look-and-feel.
Challenge
In the pursuit of visual consistency, and innovative exquisite exterior, the design team adopted titanium-plated plate as the main TV wall material, of which its strength added to the assembly difficulty in eventually having produced precise and exquisite fitting which was not just an embellished background but a consolidated visual focus.
Realization and Technology
This project utilizes titanium-plated metal plates, glass, black metal paint, and aluminum, etc., to manifest the sense of modern technology, amalgamated with genuine timber veneer, leather, timber flooring and wall fabric to create a warm ambiance. As the entrance was treated with tiles, and TV wall with timber veneer, all of which were of design in detailing for spatial dynamic quality. The open study and its storage adopted concrete plank with the bookshelf behind was treated with natural timber veneer and dark glass for a very posh finishing.
Operation and Interaction
The Transition area as the medium for the spatial transit, the design team has seamlessly integrated the entrance with storage clever detailing of connecting dyed wood veneer to concrete plank concealing the storage door so as to preserve an overall minimalist quality matching materiality and layered spatiality. The space behind the living room was planned as an open study with a central study benchtop as a sofa backdrop that defines the space.
Project Duration and Location
This project was completed in 2019, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Specifications
As this project is situated in a 108 square-meter apartment in Kaohsiung City, the design team honored the thinking and personal attributes of the inhabitants, by adopting an open plan to link the living room, study and dining area to form an open public domain, and in terms of material application, the design team, through precise logical thinking, has adopted two main themes which were interwoven with one another to manifest a sense of beauty with layers and hidden order.
Keywords
Aesthetic, Minimalist, Contemporary, Modern,

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