Press Release
He Zhou Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Resort in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes He Zhou for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Resort by He Zhou, designed for Zhou He, has been granted the Golden 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 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.
Regarding Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Resort
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a resort interior located in Suichang, a county with a long cultural history. The design covers 483 square meters and places artwork and time-honored objects within the interior decoration, keeping a simple character alongside modern comfort. Local bamboo and green plants decorate the guest rooms and echo the scenery outside the windows. Old elm, celadon and old brick are used, and the furniture is made of locally recycled aged wood that is re-cut and polished by hand. The resort offers city residents a calm and natural place to stay.
Award Record
He Zhou is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
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/103330
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/103330
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!103330
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/275050
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://rrd.me/gpEem
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Resort
- Function
- Resort
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhou He
The Recognition
- Laureate
- He Zhou
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #103330
Credits
- Team
- HLD Wanjing Design and Zhou He
- Image Credits
- N/A
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The overall design integrates artwork and time-honored objects into the interior decorations, retaining the primitive simplicity as well as the functionality and modern style. Local bamboo and green plants are used as natural decorations of the guest room, echoing with the scenery outside the window. The past is carved into every old beam and column, brick wall, earth wall, and every hand-polished furniture, which, together with idyllic outdoor scenes, manifests an ideal lifestyle.
- Inspiration
- The project lies in Suichang, a county with thousands of years of cultural connotations, where Tang Xianzu, a dramatist of the Ming Dynasty who is known as Oriental Shakespeare, wrote the world-renowned "Peony Pavilion". The village is hidden in the mountains and isolated from the world. The project aims to vitalize the village by art and culture. The designers sought inspiration from history and traditional culture and combined modern design ideas to create a natural and easeful living state.
- Research
- The village where the project is located has always been relatively isolated from the outside and is regarded as an "epitome" of the traditional Chinese rural society. As researches on the history and culture of the village continue, many things can be unveiled, including the utmost caring between the natives, architecture and food. The design is significant as it involves what kind of relationship between future travelers and the inhabitants will be built!
- Challenge
- The project is defined as a resort manor for urban residents to escape from the hustle and bustle of city life and enjoy the natural one. The designers encountered an array of difficulties and challenges in the process of project design on how to integrate the manor with the local ecology and environment while ensuring a comfortable lifestyle, and how to overcome the difficulties brought by the natural geographical barriers and rugged mountainous terrain to the implementation of the project.
- Realization and Technology
- Materials: old elm, bamboo, celadon, old brick. The furniture is made of locally recycled aged wood. Those time-tested materials are reborn after re-cutting and fine polishing, engraving signs of age into the design. Learning from the nature, those local natural materials, the featured bamboo and celadon, are applied to interpreting the subtleties of the furnishings. It serves not only as a presentation of local culture but also as a collision of the classic and the modern.
- Operation and Interaction
- The project site boasts the distinctive Haochuan Culture and Black Pottery Culture, and is the cradle of the Celadon Culture-one of the world's intangible cultural heritage and the world-renowned "Tang Xianzu Culture". Many stories with profound civilization, cultural strength and pedigree connections are worth exploring. Through an in-depth exploration of the local culture, the design team utilized space as the carrier, and abstracted the stories into every detail though technology and design.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project duration: from May 2018 to May 2019
- Specifications
- Project Area: 483 square meter
- Keywords
- The vitalization of village, traditional culture, old elm, handicraft art, Peony Pavilion, celadon, bamboo craft, time-tested materials
