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Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Haisi Resort by Nan Zheng

The international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Nan Zheng for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Haisi Resort by Nan Zheng, designed for Arm Design Consultants. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.

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.

About Haisi Resort

Haisi is a resort interior design located in a river town in Fujian, China. The project reproduces the style of a century-old water town in Fuzhou and highlights local culture. Several courtyards are staggered to form enclosed and private areas, and each courtyard serves one guest room. The executive room uses a three-entry layout, with a drop-off area, a bedroom facing the courtyard and a garden. Warm wooden tones, brown and gold finishes, lacquer paintings and wood carvings recall traditional southern Fujian houses.

Award Record

This recognition makes Nan Zheng 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Haisi Resort
Function
Resort
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Saddle Brown, Black, Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Olive Green
Images
5
Client
Arm Design Consultants

The Recognition

Laureate
Nan Zheng
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2022 - 2023
Design ID
#145216

Design Details

Unique Properties
Located in the River Town in Fujian, China, Haisi Resort highlights the local culture and reproduces the style of a century-old water town in Fuzhou. As the highest standard administrative room in the entire water town, the project adopts courtyard-style buildings and integrates southern Fujian culture, which is quite gorgeous and stunning.
Inspiration
As a business card and landmark of cultural tourism in Fuzhou, the design is inspired by the ancient heritage of Fujian. The Haisi Resort inherits the architectural characteristics of the southern Fujian house which combines the high-rise roof ridge, carved beams and pillars, and wall brick reliefs to form a unique southern Fujian architectural courtyard.
Research
The furniture in the project echoes the local big house in southern Fujian. The luxurious lacquer paintings are the inheritance of handicrafts, and the exquisite wood carvings highlight the unique charm of southern Fujian furniture. The pattern is intriguing, and the texture is fine and delicate, highlighting the brilliance of Southern Fujian culture.
Challenge
The traditional furniture in southern Fujian is ingenious and gorgeous in decoration, with strong three-dimensional effect and grandeur. The window lattices are engraved with flowers and birds, the lacquer paintings on the screens are luxurious and exquisite. To simulate the ancient local building, the furniture and cabinet doors are painted with the traditional craftsmanship of mother-of-pearl inlay work and lacque. The background painting is used to describe the vicissitudes of life and increase the cultural charm of the guest room.
Realization and Technology
The executive room adopts a three-entry space layout. The first entry space is the drop-off area; the second entry is the bedroom area, using symmetrical arrangement, the bed faces the courtyard, making the scenery the focus of sight, the ceiling height restores the original appearance of the building to the greatest extent, and uses traditional purlins to interpret the antique flavor of southern Fujian buildings; the three entrances are courtyards, making the space full of greenery.
Operation and Interaction
The overall executive room adopts a soft and warm wooden tone, and is decorated with brilliant and gorgeous brown and gold, so that the whole space shows the royal feeling, and the partition and the ceiling are harmonious and unified.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in May 2021 and the design was finished in October 2021.
Specifications
The project is formed by several courtyards which are staggered to form an enclosed and private space. Each courtyard is an independent guest room area with an exclusive courtyard landscape.
Keywords
interior design, resort, wood, hotel, courtyard

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