Press Release
Seal Building by Peng Xiao Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Peng Xiao for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Seal Building by Peng Xiao, designed for Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Seal Building
Seal is an archive building located in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The building has a gross floor area of 57,487 square meters and a height of 66 meters. The form combines a tower and a podium, which frees shared space on the lower floors and places the archive storage on the upper floors. Public and professional circulation routes are separated. The facade is inspired by the Chinese seal and presents timelines of historic events in the city. Local materials and low carbon technologies are applied. A multipurpose hall and a large meeting room are open to the public.
About Peng Xiao
I am an architect and I am interested in my job. I feel very pleasant when my design make people's life becomes better. I provide services to varies of organization for 20 years, such as gorvernment, educational institute, company... It is an enjoyable thing to provide them design product, at the same time I also got many prices and honor by various of institutes, they encourage me to fouces on my work and provide better design products.
Award Record
This recognition makes Peng Xiao a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://designers.org/design-category/architecture
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/137117
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137117
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137117
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/328135
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://en.csadi.com.cn
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Seal Building
- Function
- Building
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Light Blue, Lavender, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Peng Xiao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137117
Credits
- Team
- Director:, Xiao peng, Zhang songmin, Team members: and Li li, Liu fengqi, Li hongsheng, Shu xiaoling, Ge xiang, Li dongmei, Peng yiqi, Ye xin, Chen junyu, Wu jiangtao, Zhen mengdi, Zhang di, Xiong xiaoping
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Wuhan is an old city with long history, the architect take advantage of reginal cultural inheritance and innovation by design inspiration, facade components and building details. They put people first by placing emphasis on the user experience. This is not a boring place of storing and accessing the archives, but rather a place of open, comfortable, sharing space for communication. Sustainable and Low carbon. Multiple Proactive and inactive technologies have been applied in the building ensuring the sustainable and low carbon characters of the building.
- Inspiration
- Seal, special Chinese methods of keeping record, which are being embedded in the building appearance, indicating the building witnessing the leaps and bound of the city development, and the transformation from old-fashion into modern. Once the four elevations are being displayed together on the same page, a big W will be formed which is the first letter of City Wuhan, where this building situates. Specific timelines of big historic event is being presented on the building facade, recording the history development of the city and ushering a new page of the future.
- Research
- Design by the need of government and use digital design method to improve the project.
- Challenge
- Due to the shortage of land, two forms in the design: I-shaped plate layout and high-rise tower layout. Through analyzing relationship of the city, the form of tower and podium is optimal. Hence, continuing the urban space, and using convenience of vertical transportation to leave more shared space on the lower floors. The relatively private archives warehouse is on the high-rise floor, ensuring the safety and easy management of the archives warehouse, also facilitating the accessibility.
- Realization and Technology
- City and Building: the design focuses on the relationship between building and city. Function and Flow: Clear space division based on the function difference. Flow of public user and professional user separated clearly. Space and Environment: Mixture of Building and environment, infiltration of inside and outside space during design. Materials and Details: Materials based on the local material accessibility. Modern technique to display long and memorable history. Low-Carbon and Sustainability: Technologies been applied to achieve low carbon.
- Operation and Interaction
- The project combines the requirement of the client and public users by applying smart retrieve and search, smart accessing system, smart archives storage and accessing system. Multiple purpose hall and big meeting room in the Archives opens to the public for commercial purposes, releasing government financial burden. Both current urban layout and center square layout makes the building in line with the relationship with the city.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project design and construction started in April 2014 and finished in August 2017 and located in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
- Specifications
- Total Land Area: 13291 square meters Gross Floor Area: 57487 square meters Height：66 meters
- Keywords
- culture sharing space ecologic
