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Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives Public Center by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan 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/ Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives Public Center by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan, designed for Vantree Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
Regarding Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives Public Center
Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives is an interior design for a public center in the Lixia district of Jinan. The center brings together archives, sports halls, cultural service facilities and senior care facilities. The atrium acts as a hub that connects the floors and leads visitors to each area. The circulation was reorganized, the escalator positions were adjusted, and unused public areas were turned into shared social spaces. Scattered green platforms on the atrium facade recall the mountains and rivers of Jinan.
Award Record
With this recognition, Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan is a winner of 8 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/129481
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/129481
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!129481
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/220045
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives Public Center
- Function
- Public Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Dim Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Gray and Gainsboro
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Vantree Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #129481
Credits
- Team
- Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai, Xin Yan, Jingyi Zhao, Qijun Lu, Shangzhao Yang, Xiaofeng Li, Zhongning Zhang and Guanbao Ye
- Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Vantree Design.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Through the analysis of the functional blocks and the streamlines, combined with the needs of use, reorganize the relationship of the streamlines, the space is reconstructed, and the atrium blocks are connected as a hub to reconstruct the function of the place, disperse to various spaces. Implanting shared social functions in each space can serve the needs of people of different ages and different interests more widely, and provide people with different scales of communication space.
- Inspiration
- Since the ancient times, there are many famous mountains and rivers in Jinan. We apply Jinan's landscape to the design of the venues to make them more characteristic of Jinan. In the atrium, we combined the landscape elements to create scattered green platforms on the facade to enrich the spatial relationship.
- Research
- The original architectural plan is a gathering place for social and cultural places. The archives, gymnasiums, cultural service facilities and senior care facilities are combined with four major functional blocks, and the atrium block is used as a hub to connect, and the urban public domains gather here from all directions. A major goal of space remodeling is to optimize the use of the atrium. As the hub and facade of the entire cultural and sports center, people can't walk away from the connection of the atrium in the space. We hope to combine the local elements of Jinan to create a place for gathering and rest indoors, linking other spatial relationships.
- Challenge
- The irregular space on the first floor is reorganized to make the space more tidy and comfortable. Cut off the isolated space on the mezzanine, leaving more space for the first-floor atrium to optimize the space experience. From the second to fourth floors, we integrated the overall streamline, adjusted the position of the escalators, pushed and pulled the edge of the atrium without affecting the streamline, and used idle public spaces to implant shared communication spaces to enrich people's spatial experience.
- Realization and Technology
- We analyze the interior space of the building as a whole system, reconstruct the functional place, reorganize the dynamic relationship between the details and the whole. Combining the spiritual, humanistic, and space requirements of different venues to shape space, starting from people’s sense of experience, interactive social function needs, combining elements to shape the spirit of space, shaping the cultural and archives center through split, combination, and implant, shaping functional spaces, create more suitable communication spaces, and shape shared communities that serve local people.
- Operation and Interaction
- In order to provide citizens of different ages with an emerging style of cultural and sports center with diversified human scales, we have built the cultural and sports archives center into a shared space. People can communicate with each other and carry out various activities here to realize the sharing of functions and the sharing of civic culture. The cultural and sports archives center will become a landmark in the community, connecting the future of the city. It will become a carrier for the spread of Jinan culture, inheriting traditions and having distinctive characteristics of the times.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in September 2019 and finished in June 2021 in Jinan, the purpose of the design of Jinan cultural sports and archives center is to provide people with different scales of communication space in Lixia district, Jinan.
- Specifications
- In view of the loopholes in the existing spatial layout, we reconstructed the spatial relationship of the atrium. In view of the flow of people and functional configuration of each layer of space, we reconstructed the original plane. The irregular space on the first floor is organized to make the space more tidy and comfortable. Cut off the isolated space on the mezzanine, leaving more space for the first-floor atrium to optimize the space experience.
- Keywords
- landscape, hierarchical, cultural platform
