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Aranya Homes Reception Center by Yiming Zhu Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Yiming Zhu 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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Aranya Homes Reception Center by Yiming Zhu, designed for Y Space Design Consulting Firm. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
About Aranya Homes Reception Center
Aranya is a reception center built beside a wetland park in Qinhuangdao. The building uses white steel frames, geometric boxes and large glass curtain walls, so the natural setting stays visible from inside. The interior takes the calm and solemn character of a church as a reference to create a peaceful atmosphere. The ceiling is covered with wood fiber sound absorbing boards that reduce noise in busy periods. Reception bars in box form stand at the entrances to guide and separate visitor flow. An acrylic display wall presents community activities.
About Yiming Zhu
Y Space Design Consulting Firm was founded in 2016. It is a design consulting firm with "beautiful insight and virtue".The firm is active in residential, commercial, cultural tourism estate industry, office, hotel, cultural and educational projects and other types of practical exploration. The scope of services covers interior design, brand visual identity design (combined with space), soft decoration，furniture design, etc., as well as design consultng and business operation consulting services.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yiming Zhu is 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/128200
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128200
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128200
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/309958
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Aranya Homes Reception Center
- Function
- Homes Reception Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gainsboro and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Y Space Design Consulting Firm
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yiming Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128200
Credits
- Team
- Xiaolu Wei and Mengjie Song
- Image Credits
- Xuguo Tang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The area's architectural plans are made of white steel frames and geometric boxes, as well as alongside a beautiful wetland park, so a large area of the glass curtain walls is also used. The pure and transparent volume of this reception center is designed to highlight the superior natural wetland environment. This project takes church as the reference, hoping that through the interior design to create a peaceful atmosphere so as to influence people's behavior and reduce the chaos in sound.
- Inspiration
- At the beginning, we proposed an assumption as what kind of space would naturally calm people down? We listed and summarized space like bookstore, Buddhist temple, church, classroom, and library, feeling that the solemn and respectful dignity of church greatly matches with the atmosphere and usage of the space. Church is the place to heal the soul of people. This echoes the main concept of aranya that bringing people with spiritual release. We took this as our inspiration and thus, there is a kind of visual hierarchy guidance in current space. It appears as decoration and structure are both queuing, everything is not in rush.
- Research
- Transformative analysis and research the logic of behaviors and demands of people in the reception space. The effect of different color temperature lights on people's moods; The use of sound-absorbing materials in space.
- Challenge
- 1. This project needs to meet multiple functional needs while also taking on the role of visitor services, and hubs. 2. How to effectively solve the indoor environment chaos, noise, and other problems by a large number of people.
- Realization and Technology
- Facing the noisy situation in peak period of people flow, the ceiling of whole space is made of acoustic wooden fiber board. It was a surprise that the rusticity of wooden fiber boards embodied the whole space with a loose sense, softening the space to some extents. Moreover, the brutality of wooden fiber board and the delicateness of hardware and lamps form a contrast between each other.
- Operation and Interaction
- Muti-functional reception bars in box form has been put at various entrances, to integrate functions as well as separate people flow. The display wall made of acrylic was in a clear structure at the entrance of the restaurant, and the content to display could be various by different community activities. In this case, customers can grasp recent community activity arrangements by taking a quick look.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project is located in aranya, Qinhuangdao, which has been formally put into use on the eve of 2021 aranya theater festival.
- Specifications
- Wood silk sound-absorbing cotton board in 1220mm x 2440mm x 15mm
- Keywords
- Reception Center, Transit Distribution, Calm, Respectful, Noise-cancelling
