Press Release
ERC Autumn Village Reception Centre by Wey Duan Luo Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Wey Duan Luo for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that ERC Autumn Village Reception Centre by Wey Duan Luo, designed for Ever Rise Construction Co., Ltd, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The recognition forms part of 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
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.
About ERC Autumn Village Reception Centre
ERC Autumn Village is a reception centre in Taipei, Taiwan. The building combines a bookstore, a cafe and a sales reception area within one space of 926 square metres. A skylight courtyard with a waxberry tree stands at the centre, surrounded by interlacing platforms of different floor heights. The steel structure has wooden floor slabs and an external brick wall fixed with H beams and metal parts. Seats, lighting and cabinets are custom made from recycled wood pallets. Flexible layouts allow exhibitions, lectures and forums to be held.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wey Duan Luo a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. It 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. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
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/92904
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/92904
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!92904
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/259923
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- ERC Autumn Village Reception Centre
- Function
- Reception Centre
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray and Sienna
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ever Rise Construction Co., Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wey Duan Luo
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #92904
Credits
- Team
- Wey-Duan Luo and Chien-Chun Wu, Tzu-Ping Chan, Teng-Wen Yu
- Image Credits
- Wey-Duan Luo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design concept of this project has implicated the current phenomenon - the vanishing of physical bookstore in this digital era. Integrating multiple industries like cafe, bookstore and reception center into one space, it also allows exhibitions, lectures and forums organized simultaneously. It has successfully attracted the public, transformed the concept of development project marketing with various interesting design features like skylight courtyard and flexible design elements.
- Inspiration
- Due to the main facility of the Autumn Village residential apartment which is to be built, is focusing on the reading area, the reception center for this development project has targeted to break through the stereotype of general reception center, using reading activity as the core idea of the whole space to create a unique form of space with innovative integrated marketing model of different industries.
- Research
- The waxberry central courtyard gathers people to sit and interact with one another. The free-flowing circulation indicates the freedom of modern lives. The aroma of coffee accompanies reading activities of the public, form a lively scene. Going upstairs, surrounding the homocentric rectangular circulation space, one will enter a multifunctional space for exhibitions, cultural talks, parent-child events and etc. Visitors are able to conceive a pleasant experience in this vibrant space.
- Challenge
- Merging cafe, bookstore and reception centre for a development project into one space, is the greatest challenge of this project. Letting each of the businesses perform independently without affecting one another have become the design focus. The design team uses bookstore as the main theme, adding cafe as another commercial attraction to realize the spatial design of a grand reception centre for promoting the development project without any sense of conflict.
- Realization and Technology
- The design team has created a unique construction of the external brick wall. It uses H beam and metal parts fixing the inner part of the hollow bricks, creating the facade with modern visual pattern. It is a steel structure building with wooden slabs floors. The custom-made furniture includes lightings, seats and cabinets built of recycled wood pallets. The height of the book displays compliances with consumer usability. The sitting area around the waxberry tree allows people to relax.
- Operation and Interaction
- The circulation is diverged into two main flows. Business consultation area is located behind the courtyard. Merges the real estate promotional event into commercial space softly, it rises the curiosity of the people. Extra-wide staircase allows people to slow down their pace or sit down to read. Theme exhibition area on 2F promotes works of local artists. The forum area, designed as stair-seating, can hold different events. The flexible changes of the layouts suit different functions.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 1 October 2018 and completed in 26 May 2019, in Taipei, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- The area is 926 square metres. With a skylight courtyard at the center, surrounded by interlacing platforms with different floor heights, it forms an open mixed-use space. The arrangement of the metal frames on the glass wall is of note-like sequence. 1F has a courtyard, show house unit, cafe, kitchen and hot food area, bookstore, stair-seating, VR room, administration area, dining area, WC and storage room. Community activities area, exhibitions, seating area, forum space and terrace are on 2F.
- Keywords
- Industrial, Flexibility, Bookstore, Cafe, Courtyard
