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Textile Art Center by Kris Lin Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
Kris Lin recognized for cultural heritage and culture industry design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Textile Art Center by Kris Lin, designed for Cfld, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 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.
More About Textile Art Center
Textile is an urban art center created within a former blanket factory in Deqing County, an area with a long silk weaving history. The renovation retains historical elements of the old building and follows its original architectural structure. Broken lines integrate the building form into the interior. LED light strips recall yarn and weaving machines. The 2000 square meter space holds a historical exhibition hall and a community art center with a library for young people. Cultural memory is joined with new public functions.
About Kris Lin
2001 came to Shanghai and built “KLID Design Office” to work on the interior design for architecture.
Award Record
This recognition makes Kris Lin a winner of 59 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2011 - 2012 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award
The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Entries typically include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. Awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/cultural-heritage
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/103068
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/103068
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!103068
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/111535
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Textile Art Center
- Function
- Art Center
- Category
- Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Gray, Dim Gray and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Cfld
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kris Lin
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #103068
Credits
- Team
- Kris Lin, Jiayu Yang
- Image Credits
- Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer KLID 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This case is an urban renewal and renovation project. Under the background of urban renewal, the designer has carried out a comprehensive study on the history and geographical features of the textile industry in Deqing County. Under the premise of respecting history, the original cultural style is retained and used. Modern design techniques reinterpret regional elements to create a modern urban art center that spans the boundaries of time and space.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the Textile.Deqing has thousands of years of textile history and is an important silk weaving industry region in China. Under the background of urban renewal, the designer has carried out a comprehensive study on the history and geographical features of the textile industry. Under the premise of respecting history, the original cultural style is retained and used. Modern design techniques reinterpret regional elements to create a modern urban art center that spans the boundaries of time and space.
- Research
- As a city that started in the textile industry, Deqing County has a large number of textile factories. This case is the site of a long-established blanket factory. It has witnessed the development of the prosperous Jiangnan textile industry. However, in the development of the times, after all, it is impossible to keep up with the pace of urban development and gradually disintegrate, and the spatial memory of the old factory has always been deeply mapped in people's hearts.
- Challenge
- Preservation of historic buildings.In the design of the project, the designer integrates the city's compatibility and continuation, respects the original culture and residual status of the space, retains the historical elements, and equips it with modern diversified functional spaces to inject new vitality into this space.
- Realization and Technology
- LED lights represent yarn.The main body of the space follows the architectural structure of the old factory building,and uses the architectural symbols of the broken lines to integrate the building into the interior to form an organic unity.It is like an art gallery that exists in a box. The line-shaped roof makes the space more visually malleable. The light strips above the reception desk follow the roof,as if a huge textile machine and let the space cross through history and lead people to regain the memory of history.
- Operation and Interaction
- The case can be divided into two major areas: the historical exhibition hall and the community art center.The Community Art Center is a youth art activity center for young people. It also has the function of a library. It integrates learning, reading and communication. The historical exhibition hall is mainly used for display and promote the history and culture development of Leidian textile industry. This space can also be used as the venue for various artistic activities in the later use.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Feb 2019 in Deqing and finished in December 2019 in Deqing, and was exhibited in Deqing in December 2009.
- Keywords
- Textile, Urban renewal, Blanket factory, Art gallery, New vitality
