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Likun Shen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Tianqingli Residential Townhouse in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Likun Shen recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Tianqingli Residential Townhouse by Likun Shen, designed for Gad, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Tianqingli Residential Townhouse
Tianqingli Residential is a housing cluster located on the north side of the Shangtang River in Hangzhou, China. The design applies Song-style architecture through a simple modern language, keeping traditional forms readable. Thirty-two households are arranged on a site of 17900 square metres. Multiple courtyards and lanes link the homes to the surrounding hills and water, balancing openness with privacy. A curtain wall system combining aluminium alloy and wood supports the traditional appearance while controlling cost and construction time.
About Likun Shen
As one of the partners and design directors of the gad Xiamen branch, as well as a national first class registered architect and a first-line architect, Likun Shen has focused on urban planning and architecture design topics such as urban organic renewal, Chinese architecture construction and featured town (or ideal town) for many years and has made remarkable achievements in the research of the modernity and regionalism of modern residences.
Award Record
This recognition makes Likun Shen a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2022 - 2023 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/145572
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/145572
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!145572
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/317685
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.gad.com.cn/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tianqingli Residential Townhouse
- Function
- Townhouse
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gad
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Likun Shen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #145572
Credits
- Image Credits
- gad
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is located at the north side of Shangtang River, a canal tributary of Hangzhou, as the former capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Relying on the landscape of hills in the east, the project aims at becoming the first Song-style residential cluster with Chinese traditional gardens in China, and tries to explore the possibility of the revival of oriental classical culture from the perspective of the contemporary and sustainable development of traditional architecture.
- Inspiration
- This project creates the spatial pattern of multi-sided landscape and multiple courtyards, forming a direct dialogue between architecture and nature. The courtyard presents a natural openness while giving consideration to privacy. The project classifies the courtyards with the traditional Chinese garden landscape borrowing approach, thus the sequence between the private and public courtyards is more variable, which is closer to be in line with the contemporary aesthetic needs.
- Research
- Since the Song Dynasty, JIE-DRAWING (to draw with a ruler and to obtain the clear boundary) had become a technique of Chinese painting. Compared with other kinds of painting, it requires to accurately and carefully reproduce the painted objects. Therefore, JIE-DRAWING has scientifically recorded the ancient buildings, urban features and living scenes of Song dynasty. Therefore, it is an important way to obtain the basis of design from the Song calligraphy and Song paintings.
- Challenge
- Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project creates a new living experience responds to the local climate and traditional living habits based on the characteristics of traditional residential settlements, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
- Realization and Technology
- Song-style is the most exquisite but not complicated architectural form in Chinese architecture history. The project reduces complexity to simplicity by using modern architectural language while maintaining the readability of architectural symbols, applies the technology of Chinese traditional style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wood structure, which obtains the Chinese Utility Patent, making the contemporary practice of Chinese traditional style buildings more sustainable.
- Operation and Interaction
- This project combines the traditional residential form and the contemporary construction technology. From the perspective of cost and natural resources, the use of traditional Chinese style curtain wall system mixed with aluminum alloy and wooden structure can perfectly present the beautiful form of traditional buildings, ensures the performance of construction, reasonable cost and construction cycle, it can be widely used in the contemporary practice of traditional Chinese style buildings.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2018 and finished in October 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
- Specifications
- The total site area is 17900 sqm, the total building area is 8500 sqm, and 32 households are involved.
- Keywords
- Song-Style Residential, Oriental Tradition, Settlement, Chinese Traditional Garden
