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Zhijun Zhong Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Xiangkai Shangcheng Yu Garden Community Clubhouse in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Zhijun Zhong acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Xiangkai Shangcheng Yu Garden Community Clubhouse by Zhijun Zhong, designed for Herabenna, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within 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 evaluated 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.
Regarding Xiangkai Shangcheng Yu Garden Community Clubhouse
Xiangkai Shangcheng Yu Garden is a community clubhouse located in Kuiwen District, Weifang, China. The interior covers 2000 square metres and was completed in May 2023. Simple circular forms and curved surfaces shape the space. Elements drawn from forests, grasses, seeds and fireflies form a miniature ecosystem. A glowing forest, a plant wall and a biological corridor show the variety of living species. The lower floor holds a fitness centre with a yoga room, a machine training area and a swimming pool. The design links health, nature and daily community life.
About Zhijun Zhong
Zhong is the founder of Guangzhou Herabenna Interior Design Co. He has been in the design business for more than 15 years. He manages the company’s business decisions and sets the strategic guidelines for his team to assure that all his clients are satisfied with the services provided. The company has since its initiation offered design solutions for luxury hotels, high-end apartments such as the White Swan Hotel Qingyuan, Greentown Rose Garden Hotel, Vanke Ten Miles Zephyr, and other famed apartments and hotels. The Westin Zhujiajian Resort in Zhoushan was listed in 《City Traveler》 as the best hotel.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhijun Zhong a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2023 - 2024 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/161329
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/161329
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!161329
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/254188
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Xiangkai Shangcheng Yu Garden Community Clubhouse
- Function
- Community Clubhouse
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Silver and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Herabenna
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhijun Zhong
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #161329
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Xiangkai Uptown Yu Garden is located in the center of Kuiwen District, where you can enjoy the beautiful river, botanical gardens, parks and squares, and the city ecology is excellent.The design of this project continues the direction of urban planning, aiming at creating a new iteration of version 6.0 of "Shangcheng Gang", creating a good community micro-ecosystem, building aspirations for a better life, and integrating health into daily life.
- Inspiration
- After the pandemic, people are prioritizing health, shifting from merely sustaining life to embracing a healthy lifestyle. A project aims to build a vibrant community focused on health, sports, ecology, and safety, emphasizing ecological harmony. Inspired by natural growth principles, the design promotes urban ecological development and offers a serene environment for city dwellers.
- Research
- Born in the post-pandemic era, people have begun to focus on health topics, with increasing emphasis on nature, freedom and exercise. People are eager not only for intimate contact with nature and green environment, but also to a community life that integrates social and entertainment activities. Therefore, ecological health has been designed into the space in an aesthetic way. In a space where architecture and nature are highly integrated, people are nourished by energy and return to the most comfortable state of life, satisfying both physical and psychological needs.
- Challenge
- The design draws inspirational elements from architecture, nature, humanities and regional impressions. With the design language of great architectural sense and artistry, the micro-ecological system with rich connotation and spiritual freedom is constructed for Weifang people by deduction from the dimensions of light, material, shape color and so on.Let nature surround the city, and the city grows in nature.
- Realization and Technology
- It is a metaphor for the shape of the universe to use the contemporary design language to construct the order of space, while using simple circular and surface structures to sculpt space. At the same time, we incorporated elements such as forest, grasses, seeds, fireflies and so on, forming a miniature ecosystem. Its constant exchange of energy expresses to us the idea of symbiosis between architecture and ecology.
- Operation and Interaction
- In exploring the relationship between architecture and nature, the design team considered how to expand the fuller interaction and integration among the city, environment, people and space. It aims at constructing a micro-ecosystem through spatial relations, and depicting the art and connotations of space from the laws and progressive relations of all things. The design of the "glowing forest" , the "plant wall" and the "biological corridor" show the diversity of species. The state of close connection between species symbolizes the harmonious coexistence of nature.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is located at Zhuanjian Road, Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Shandong Province, China ,and was completed in May 2023.
- Keywords
- Post-Pandemic era, Ecology, Sports, Healthy Life, Natural Symbiosis, Seeds, Modern Aesthetics
