Press Release
Ye Liren Receives the Platinum A' Design Award for Skyline Bay Community Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Ye Liren recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Skyline Bay Community Center by Ye Liren, designed for Zhoyu, has been granted the Platinum A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Platinum A' Design Award
The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.
About Skyline Bay Community Center
Skyline Bay is a community center built in Chengdu, China. The building has a construction area of 920 square meters and a two-story double-height layout that forms a semi-enclosed space with partitions but no full separation. The facade is clad in silver-white aluminum plate and champagne gold perforated aluminum plate, shaped into flowing curves that recall butterfly wings. Curved lines continue inside, creating quiet corners for reflection. The design draws on the nearby Shaxi waterway and wetland park and follows a waterfront island concept.
About Ye Liren
FTA entered China in 2003 and has design institutes in Berlin, Germany, and Shanghai, Shenzhen, China. As a design firm specializing in office and industrial real estate, FTA provides integrated services which include urban planning, architectural design, interior design, landscape design, consulting planning, and park operation. We aim to integrate global resources, technology, and teams and create influential industrial innovation zones. Regarding the Chinese Industrial Park, FTA is one of the design institutions with the maximum number of design works. At the end of 2021, FTA had accumulated more than 900 design experiences and completed more than 30,000,000 square meters.
Award Record
Ye Liren is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2023 - 2024 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/155403
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/155403
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!155403
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/292642
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YePlFewwkSvxoQBKxvF7Gg
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Skyline Bay Community Center
- Function
- Community Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Sky Blue and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhoyu
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ye Liren
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Platinum A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #155403
Credits
- Team
- Gao Ming, Zhu Yongsheng, Chen Zhanbo, Liang Weichao, Zhou Shuanglong, Zhang Yutong, Li Han, Huang Wenfeng, Fu Changjian and Yu Shangjie
- Image Credits
- 5: Photographer Shrimp Studio, 2023
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- SkylineBay traces its roots to the new modern luxury residence architecture art and surpasses the imagination of traditional residence, creating a neo-modernism innovative luxury residence with a fearless spirit of subversion and breakthrough. It extracts the meandering and streamlined elements of Shaxi to the north side of the plot, integrates the inspiration of time and light, and uses the flowing lines as the main frame of the exhibition area.
- Inspiration
- This project echoes Shaxi and the Wetland Park, builds the concept of ‘Water Island’, and creates a high-end dynamic intelligent community, the Waterfront Ecological Island: the melodious melody and romantic rhythm of Shaxi located to the north of the plot are extracted to create an amazing trend of science and technology life together with science and technology art, and trigger customers' beautiful imagination of waterfront charm and science and technology life style.
- Research
- Modern material techniques bring new expressions to traditional elements, and numerous curves flow around the facade, breaking the stereotype of a square house. The arc curve can create visual beauty, and leave a corner for quiet reflection, creating a sense of solitude and forming an independent semi-enclosed island space, thus satisfying the customers' personality and noble experience demands.
- Challenge
- Modern material techniques bring new expressions to traditional elements, and numerous curves flow around the facade, breaking the stereotype of a square house. SkylineBay is eager to break free and pursue freedom, and its architectural form with a sense of design and extreme aesthetics updates the current modern architectural style. The future-oriented superfluid curve facade can bring a soft and friendly feeling to people to fully show its difference from the surrounding similar products and bring different sensory effects.
- Realization and Technology
- Silver-white aluminum plate and champagne gold perforated aluminum plate are used to simulate the flexible curve lines of the butterfly wings, so that the shadow level of the architectural lines can be strengthened, giving people a "gilding and silvering" and amazing stylish visual impact. Silver, champagne gold and light blue create visual enjoyment in an orderly manner, presenting a sense of rhythm, showing the level and texture of light and shadow in the sunshine.
- Operation and Interaction
- The entrance uses the front space to present the initial image of the project and create a sense of belonging and anticipation. While the internal space has an independent and complete flow line, its core function is always actively interwoven with the flow line through the space volume. The interior design adopts circular curves, creating visual beauty while leaving a corner for people to meditate, creating a sense of solitude. Moreover, it forms an independent and semi-enclosed island space, catering to customers' personal and noble experience demands.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2021 in Chengdu and finished in July 2022 in Chengdu
- Specifications
- The construction area of the project is 920 square meters. The two-story double-height design forms a semi-wrapped space with partitions but no separation, bringing enormous charm. Its unique design make people cannot help but want to stop to explore its mystery, leaving endless reverie. It is indeed a platinum social place where the elites gather.
- Keywords
- Water island, Streamline, Superfluid, Flexible curve, Champagne gold perforated aluminum plate
