Press Release
Shanan Hotel by Eason Zhu Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Eason Zhu honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Shanan Hotel by Eason Zhu, designed for Fununit Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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 Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Shanan Hotel
Inspired by the surrounding bamboo sea and mountain scenery, the design language expresses the yearning and awe for nature. Shanan is like an ideal city, isolated from the world in the green mountains, the song of birds, the air, and the sea of clouds. Halfway up the mountain, 17 guest rooms face the bamboo sea and mountains. Shanan is located deep in the bamboo sea forest on the Shenwang Line in Baofu Town, Anji. As the highest house on this mountain, it has the whole green and undulation of the mountain.
About Eason Zhu
Fununit Design is committed to providing architectural, interior, installation, and product design services to clients in different fields. The international Design team provides a new direction of Design exploration for the commercial market through experimental, narrative, humorous, and other methods. Fun is an expression of pure identity, the most desirable luxury of modern society. We are trying to find the essence, relationship, truth, and simple touching between architecture, space, and every unit of things.
Award Record
This recognition makes Eason Zhu a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2022 - 2023 editions 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. 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/147571
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147571
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147571
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/317069
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.fununitdesign.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shanan Hotel
- Function
- Hotel
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Fununit Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Eason Zhu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147571
Credits
- Team
- Erhuan Chai, Yeqing Feng, Eileen Chen, Jiajun Li, Apple Wu, Yiting Du, Liangliang Weng and Xiaoxian Hu
- Image Credits
- Photographer Aogvision，Shanan，2022.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Shanan" is like an ideal city, isolated from the world in the green mountains, the song of birds, the air, and the sea of clouds. Halfway up the mountain, 17 guest rooms face the bamboo sea and mountains. "Shanan" is located deep in the bamboo sea forest on the Shenwang Line in Baofu Town, Anji. As the highest house on this mountain, it has the whole green and undulation of the mountain.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the surrounding bamboo sea and mountain scenery, the design language expresses the yearning and awe for nature. While enjoying the beautiful scenery, it can trigger deep thinking about life.
- Research
- The meaning of a vacation is not to go to every scenic spot every day or to get lost in a good view. Shan'an" brings a beautiful, healthy and healing way of life. People often miss and feel the power of happiness later in their exhausting daily lives.
- Challenge
- The site was located halfway up the mountain. The biggest challenge was to consider how to present the mountain view in the space without loss of privacy, and it also needed to be designed four independent buildings with the local landscape characteristics.
- Realization and Technology
- Generous use of floor-to-ceiling window design, using Windows to frame the interior, let the hard building mixed with warm and rustic beauty. Major Materials： Art Paint, Wood Floor, Old Wood, Stone, Rock, Metal Hole
- Operation and Interaction
- Here is more like an omnipotent ivory tower, containing all the yearning for a better life, as well as every surprise inadvertently in the corner. Rammed earth colored building walls restore color to nature; Geometric lines scattered, and more people have a sense of substitution into it. Generous in the use of floor-to-ceiling Windows, which frame the interior, bringing warmth and rustic beauty into the hard building.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in December 2021 and was completed in December 2022 in Anji China.
- Specifications
- Main building: 572 square meters; New building: 458 square meters; Auxiliary building 270 square meters; Restaurant: 148 square meters; The main building does not include corridor space area is 458 square meters; The area including aisle space is 680 square meters.
- Keywords
- B&B, Bamboo Sea Forest, Unobstructed Viewing Terrace, Private Soup Hot Spring into the Household, Natural Wilderness,
