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Yijie Chen Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Zero Pet Club in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Yijie Chen 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 Zero Pet Club by Yijie Chen, designed for Nayun 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 evaluated 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.
More About Zero Pet Club
Zero is a pet club interior located in Nanjing. The 487 square meter space brings together pet care, behavior training and related services, along with a social area for owners. White surfaces and wood finishes replace the crowded look of a common pet shop. The main materials are PanDomo, terrazzo, stainless steel plate and wood finish. The hall is wide and open, with soft lighting and calm colors. Pet rest rooms are divided by wood and glass and marked with numbers. Movable sofas and benches allow owners to sit by the glass and interact with their pets.
About Yijie Chen
Yijie Chen, young interior designer, designdirector of Nayun Design. I n 2010, he graduated from the interior design majorof Nanjing Forestry University, and has been engaged in the design industry for nearly ten years. He has completed many high complexity design projects, and won unanimous praise in the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. At the same time, he has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions.
Award Record
This recognition makes Yijie Chen a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/95742
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/95742
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!95742
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/264447
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://c7.gg/fSwxc
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zero Pet Club
- Function
- Pet Club
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Nayun Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yijie Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #95742
Credits
- Team
- Mingxing Ma and Jiawei Ni
- Image Credits
- Photographer Ning Pei, The Hall, 2018.; Photographer Ning Pei, Art Installation, 2018.; Photographer Ning Pei, Entrance, 2018.; Photographer Ning Pei, Cat Playing Area, 2018.; Photographer Ning Pei, Pet Rest Rooms, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Compared with the common pet shop, this project is more like a social life club. At a glance, people may recognize it as a book store or coffee bar. In this 460-square meter area, the behavior of pets will be corrected and pet related products will be sold such as travel, insurance, portrait and so on. Through selling these series of services, Zero Pet Club hopes to make human and their pets closer and communication further.
- Inspiration
- From the very beginning, the designer's orientation for this project is "exquisite and beautiful", white as keynote, breaking form of the common pet shop where inner space is crowd and has bad ventilation, through minimalism design techniques, suiting logs, glasses, rolled steel, and bare pipe such kinds of original elements to build a pet world with compound beautiful in this city that full of tall buildings and towers.
- Research
- Zero Pet Club lies at the 39th Tianshan Road, Xuanwu District of Nanjing, whose gate is open and shining just like a silent invitation so that the attention of visitors are all attracted to its inner space naturally. At a glance, we may recognize it as it is a book store or coffee shop, but the light boards hung on the outside wall were designed to a cat pattern had proclaimed the real feature of this space.
- Challenge
- Cat playing area has strong natural style, in which many kinds of air ladders and cat climbs consist a adventure park. Single design not only let cats have fun, but also take up other space of the hall.
- Realization and Technology
- The main materials in this project are PanDomo, terrazzo, stainless steel plate and wood finish. Looking this whole space, designers let Zero Pet Club become a personal style pet shop through take advantage of white and wood to express the worm and exquisite of the band.
- Operation and Interaction
- The hall is a comprehensive area. Wide and open plane layout, appropriate light effect and shades affordable color design that they all possess sense of flow and interest.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2018 in Nanjing and finished in July 2019 in Nanjing.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 487 square meters. Pet rest rooms are separated by logs and glasses and signed at numbers in order to manage. Small sofa and bench can be mobile anywhere so that owners can sit at the front of the glasses to communicate with their pets, at the same time, they also wouldn't disturb guests in other rooms.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Pet Club, Modern, Natural, Retail, Simple,
