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Ling Chen Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Hebei Hua Ao Hospital Trauma Treatment Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ling Chen for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Hebei Hua Ao Hospital Trauma Treatment Center by Ling Chen, designed for Wsp Architects. 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 assessed 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.
More About Hebei Hua Ao Hospital Trauma Treatment Center
Hebei Hua Ao Hospital is a trauma treatment center built in Zhangjiakou, China. The design concept is a snow ribbon, expressed as a horizontal facade with window heights that change with orientation and function. The varied windows control sun shading and daylight and reduce the need for air conditioning. Solar collector panels on the roof save electric energy. Waiting seats are arranged in enclosed groups to encourage communication, and artworks and landscape features are placed indoors to help patients feel calm. The hospital combines treatment, rehabilitation and education functions.
About Ling Chen
Chen Ling is the co-founder and chief designer of WSP ARCHITECTS. He was elected as the top 10 new Chinese architect in 2005, one of the initiators of the international Chinese American architect club, a member of Chinese housing security expert group of the housing security and public housing policy committee, a member of the expert committee of Urban Planning, Land & Resources Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, and the 2015 Committee of the green housing design competition in Henan province; lecturer at the National Federation of industry and Commerce Design Alliance practice business school.
Award Record
Ling Chen is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/139125
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/139125
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!139125
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/213144
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.wsparch.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hebei Hua Ao Hospital Trauma Treatment Center
- Function
- Trauma Treatment Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Light Steel Blue, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Wsp Architects
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ling Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #139125
Credits
- Team
- Nelson Tam, sun Zhe, Yu Fei.
- Image Credits
- Gao Feng
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As a supporting project for Zhangjiakou competition area of 2022 Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games, Hebei Hua Ao hospital takes "snow ribbon" as the design concept and creates a new benchmark of "the most scientific and technological image" Medical Center for Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic competition area through integrated design of architecture, landscape and interior, showing a diversified Olympic spirit and international standard medical treatment environment in the space.
- Inspiration
- The horizontally shaped "snow ribbon" presents different window height forms according to different orientations and functions, showing the trend of expansion or contraction. It effectively controls the sun shading and daylighting, reduces the demand for air conditioning, and creates a smart and modern hospital image.The interior design applies ice and snow sports elements such as movement track, snow crystal and sports vitality to the space to show the beauty of smooth, clean and dynamic ice.
- Research
- Design pursues eternal value, which is reflected in the endless space life. With the concept of "technology + humanities", the project takes into account the evolving technology and changing community needs. Through high-level cultural concepts, modern design ideas and scientific and reasonable functional layout, the layout style and landscape characteristics of the planning itself are fully reflected. Adhering to the strategy of "adjusting measures to local conditions and skillfully borrowing from others", the overall planning is arranged along the narrow and long land, and the medical units are arranged in turn from north to south.
- Challenge
- In the challenges of global health system upgrading in recent years, it is not difficult to find that the traditional medical design needs to be redefined and have new standards. This design is the integration of professional experience in various fields, such as health care design, science and technology office headquarters design and so on. As a weisiping integrated design project, architects, landscape architects and interior designers work together to refresh the cognition of medical facility design from a more diverse perspective, and finally present a new benchmark of medical center with the most scientific and technological image.
- Realization and Technology
- Diversified, scientific and technological passive energy-saving and effective energy solutions make this building one of the most sustainable buildings; The facade design is stable, concise, full of sense of the times, and closely combined with functional requirements. The roof adopts solar collector plate to save electric energy.The double first floor is used to ease the flow of people, and the second floor of the hall is closed with glass to block the diffusion of noise sources.
- Operation and Interaction
- Hebei Hua’Ao hospital is an international and intelligent medical institution with the characteristics of trauma first aid and integrating the functions of medical treatment, rehabilitation and science and education. It will be put into use as a guarantee project for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The hospital takes "Everything for people's health" as its service purpose. During the Winter Olympics, it mainly provides medical and transit services focusing on trauma first aid and critical care for athletes and tourists.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2019 in Zhangjiakou and finished in December 2021 in Rimini, and was used in January 2022.
- Specifications
- Land area: 45.26 Mu Building area: 133000 M2 (phase I: 68500 m2) Service area of trauma treatment center for Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games: 15000 M2
- Keywords
- Hospital, Technology, Low-carbon, Olympic
