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Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Gumgum Garden Restaurant Pub in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Gumgum Garden Restaurant Pub by Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design, designed for HOAH Design Limited, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Gumgum Garden Restaurant Pub
Gumgum Garden is a restaurant and pub set on the basement floor of a building in Taipei, Taiwan. The interior covers 530 square metres and recreates the atmosphere of a tropical beach bar inside a city basement. The space is divided into five zones: lounge in the sand, island beach bar, rock cave dining, garden cafe and jungle seat box. Exotic plants, aged wood and real coral sand are used throughout the interior. Returning guests can experience a different setting on each visit. The design offers a relaxing place to meet, dine and drink after a long day.
About Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design
"HOAH!" this Chinese pronunciation means: Sure! It sounds like an effortless casual resply, is the most sincere promise HOAH Design make to their clients. By exploring the possibility of composition in design and space, each work is a pleasant surprise created by different elements and forms. We want users to be relaxed and find happiness in every space we created, even a little surprise to brighten up their life.
Award Record
This recognition makes Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/127664
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/127664
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!127664
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/305737
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2SvECrE
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Gumgum Garden Restaurant Pub
- Function
- Restaurant Pub
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Dim Gray, Sienna, Black and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- HOAH Design Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Vincent Hsieh - HOAH Design
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #127664
Credits
- Team
- Vincent Hsieh from HOAH Design Limited; and Muria Wu from HOAH Design Limited
- Image Credits
- All images: Photographer Frankie Lin, 2021. Visual Designer Muria Wu, 2021. Video: Gumgum Garden Staffs, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This restaurant design focused on creating an atmosphere that feels like relaxing at an island country beach bar, where guests can experience an exotic outdoor dinning experience in a city basement. The place is divided into five zones: lounge in the sand, island beach bar, rock cave dinning, garden cafe and jungle seat box, which allow returned customers to enjoy different atmosphere every time they dine in.
- Inspiration
- We have been trapped during pandemic and long for a trip. Thus setting a scene of tropical beach in this city centre restaurant is our biggest goal. A restaurant pub is a place to meet friends, drink and dine, to relax after a long day stress. People always feel totally relaxed in a natural environment. Widely-used exotic plants, aged woods and real coral sand, magically bring diners into a vacation experience.
- Research
- Taiwan is an island country, designers are familiar with the creation of a natural environment; however, the biggest challenge is to copy the atmosphere of the natural environment into a concrete house. This requires a lot of imagination and hands on construction experience. The experience of engineering supervision is the reason for the successful transformation.
- Challenge
- There are two big challenges. One of them is to create a relaxing atmosphere under a complex pipe system. The other challenge is a lot of natural materials were used in this indoor space, most of the effort is spent on overcoming various specifications.
- Realization and Technology
- In consideration of pubic safety, a complete fire protection system that meets nowadays' safety requirement was added into the old building's already complex pipe system. Material use is a key issue to this project. To enhance the atmosphere of the space without any help of the best mood creator, sunlight and humid, loads of aged woods were used: weathered, raw wooden blocks that had no additional retouch, even unwanted tree trunks were modified by hand and widely use in the space.
- Operation and Interaction
- This restaurant is children-friendly and pet-friendly, already opened for guests and become very popular in Taiwan. This unique indoor environment is also perfect for commercial events in rainy Taipei, collaborated brands include Prada, LG and LINE TV, etc.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September 2020 and finished in February 2021 in Taipei, and was officially opened in March 2021. The restaurant is located at: Basement, No.18, Sec.5, Xinyi Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110013, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
- Specifications
- This restaurant is located on the basement floor of a 30-year old building next to Taipei 101, in Taipei, capital of Taiwan. It is 530 meter square large, in a reinforced concrete residential building.
- Keywords
- urban jungle, indoor beach bar, indoor garden cafe, basement restaurant, relaxing place, restaurant pub, vacation during pandemic
