Lego Activity Center Retail by Donny Fan Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Donny Fan acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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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 Lego Activity Center Retail by Donny Fan, designed for Wenzhou Chengshijian Architecture Design Consultants Co., Ltd.. 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 Silver A' Design Award Means

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.

About Lego Activity Center Retail

Lego Activity Center is an interior design for a children's educational space located next to Yangfushan Park. The concept is play while learning, learn while playing. Modules of Lego blocks inspire the arcs, circles and woven elements of the interior. A curved wooden amphitheater cabinet stores books and forms an area for rest and interaction. A spiral staircase with solid wood handrails connects the two levels. The hall is finished with non-toxic and odorless paint, and the floor is paved with materials refined from linseed oil.

Award Record

Donny Fan 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/104555
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/104555
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!104555
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/276328

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Lego Activity Center Retail
Function: Retail
Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors: Silver, Dark Gray, Brown, Gainsboro and Gray
Images: 5
Client: Wenzhou Chengshijian Architecture Design Consultants Co., Ltd.

The Recognition

Laureate: Donny Fan
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #104555

Credits

Team: Donney Fan, Young Chen, Ting Ting Fan
Image Credits: Wenzhou Chengshijian Architecture Design Consultants Co., Ltd.

Design Details

Unique Properties: This project located in a beautiful place next to Yangfushan Park in Wenling city, forming a dynamic and energetic and inspiring society within the education, culture, and business sectors neighborhood. The design team chose to play while learning, learn while playing to be the concept of the design. Borrowed the Lego blocks to create an interesting business space that is comfortable and peaceful.
Inspiration: The design team cleverly disassembles the module of Lego, uses the abstract concept of transcending shape, brings woven elements into space, and combines fun and lively lighting to create a learning space for children. Whether the curved woven amphitheater cabinet or the round curvy window on the second floor, both show the lovely and lively space atmosphere, making people feel like stepping into a Lego dream castle.
Research: This project is located in a thriving Yangfushan Park area, education purpose-oriented and supported by brand management and curriculum sales. The overall design is inspired by the module of Lego and enriches the interior space with arcs, circles and brick materials. The design team makes the space wider by using elegant white color and bringing an intellectual experience through different types of wooden materials. Natural structure, dynamic lines, functions, and feelings are seamlessly built in to achieve the ideal space situation for Legos play while learning, learn while playing an inspirational education course.
Challenge: To solve the disadvantages of the original position of the structure, the design team combined the atrium function as the main interaction and rest space function, and placed a curved wooden cabinet amphitheater which not only has a function to store books but also to link with the circular basket. A playful design, whether the parents or the children, both can be immersed in this natural open space, and the pressure from the beam has also been subtly transformed to be an advantage of the design.
Realization and Technology: Considering that this Lego Activity Center is a children-oriented educational activity space, the design team paid special attention to the material selections. The hall uses non-toxic, non-scent, and environmentally friendly paint; and the floor is also paved with environmentally friendly materials that have been refined from linseed oil. So, a healthy environment can be enjoyed by children.
Operation and Interaction: This double-height project is like a newborn universe, the design team ingeniously created it from scratch. The design divides the facade of the second floor to enrich the hierarchy and increase the space for activities. The center column and the arc-shaped staircase stand up to the sky, open up the world. The solid wood handrails that spread from the bottom of the stairs with the structural outline, in a unified space, make a boundless school and set a benchmark for creative educational space.
Project Duration and Location: This project was completed in July 2019 in Yangfushan Park, Lucheng District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China.
Specifications: This project was originally a double-height one-story building, which the beam and the column stood in the middle of the space and the layout was unfavorable. Through reverse planning, the design team reversing the disadvantages and rotate the column of the staircase to become straight. The second floor also uses a white, warm, and solid closed wall and wooden handrails to connect the spiral stairs to the visual scale, and build a single volume within the space.
Keywords: Educational space, Lego education, Interactive design, Modernism, Stylization