Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike by Zhijun Zhong

Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike by Zhijun Zhong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KalaLoko Hale· 2022

Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike

by Zhijun Zhong

Client: Herabenna

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike

Book Text: ʻO Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown he kikowaena kūʻai a hōʻikeʻike ma ka Moku ʻo Nansha, Guangzhou, Kina. Uhi ka loko o loko i 900 mika huinahā ma ka papa hoʻokahi. Hoʻohālike ka hoʻolālā i ke ʻano nani o ke kūlanakauhale wai Cantonese a me ka moʻomeheu kauhale lawaiʻa o ia wahi, ka mea i emi iho i ka ulu ʻana o ke kūlanakauhale. Hoʻokomo ʻia nā mea i huki ʻia mai ka pena ʻīnika Kina, nā ʻohe, ka silika a me nā kukui i loko o kahi. Hoʻohana ʻia nā mea kūlohelohe e like me ka mabele, ka lāʻau a me nā lālā lāʻau. Mālama nā wahi ākea nui i ka loko me ka maʻalahi a me ka mālie.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Xiao Feng Yin Yue Greentown Primary Function: Kikowaena Kūʻai a Hōʻikeʻike e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project located in Nansha, Guangzhou, there had unique Cantonese water town scenery and fishing village culture, but with the development of the city, this scene has gradually disappeared. The designer extracted the culture from the fishing village, using the simple and natural design philosophy to recreate the old scene of the water town. Many elements such as Chinese ink painting, silk and lantern are integrated into the space for express excellent Chinese culture and advocate a simple, elegant and pure lifestyle.
Dimensions & Packaging: Flat layer, 900 Square Meter
Tags: Interior Design, Nature, Cultural Characteristics, Water Town in Lingnan, Neo-Chinese Style
Production Technology: This project use a lot of natural materials, including marble, wood, tree branches, etc. Through fine processing and blending of art, designer create a space that surrounded by nature but you can still feel the exquisite design, interpreting the relationship between human and nature.
Design Challenge: The difficulty of the project lies in how art design meets the aesthetic and use needs of the times while maintaining harmony with the ecological nature in the process of urban economic development, so as to allow people to feel a peaceful, comfortable and elegant living atmosphere when living in the city, and to precipitate an impetuous soul. The designer left a large proportion of the space blank, removed the complicated things and kept the space simple, introduced the memories of the city, integrated emotions in the design, thus creating the scenery and atmosphere in the design, and arousing the resonance between people and the space.
Research: How to integrate natural environment, local culture and art in this project? The location of the project has its unique cultural background, the designer advocates that design comes from life and based on humanistic care, pursuing the balance between urban development and natural ecology. The designer conducted field investigations, experienced local culture, extracted elements from the natural landscape and ancient Chinese poetry, use those elements to connect nature and design.
Inspiration: Nansha district is the only coastal area of Guangzhou, as known as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. The designer conducted field investigations of the local cultural background, a poetry of the poet Wan Sui from the Ming Dynasty came up in his mind. The designer was inspired by the poetry and integrated elements from Chinese ink painting, fishing village, reed and silk into this project.
Project Duration: The project started in 2019 and completed in September 2020.
Located in Jiangling North Road, Nansha District, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
Operation Flow: At the beginning of the design, the designer hoped to create a space full of humanistic care. He conducted field investigations of the local cultural background so as to understand local customs. After collecting and summarizing, the designer extracted reeds, silks, fishing nets and other classic elements deeply rooted in the city. Through these elements, the design awakens the resonance between human and space, and balances the relationship between development and nature between disappearance and retention.
Team Members: Zhijun Zhong
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yi Qian Du, 1, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Yi Qian Du, 2, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Yi Qian Du, 3, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Yi Qian Du, 4, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Yi Qian Du, 5, 2020.