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DesignNewswire · COMO, Italy ·

Chin-Shu Chen Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Play Around The Light Residential Space in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Chin-Shu Chen for interior space and exhibition design

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Play Around The Light Residential Space by Chin-Shu Chen, designed for Fe Design Company. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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 evaluated 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 Play Around The Light Residential Space

Play Around The Light is a residential interior design for a duplex apartment. The living room has a height of six meters, and its main wall of stone and wood extends upward to draw attention. The stairway connecting the two floors is placed under the dining room, and its base displays sculptures collected by the owner. Suspension and indirect lighting highlight the artworks. The open area between the dining space and the kitchen creates a circular flow. Public and private areas are clearly divided, and concealed storage supports the space.

About Chin-Shu Chen

I'm an interior designer. I like the atmosphere in the space and I love to make it better. Lifestyle is an art. The balance between beauty and functional create a comfortable house. The modest communication manner, observation analysis and careful logical thinking can place your experiences, sensation and aesthetic concept into a space. A happy home life will be create naturally, and then step-by-step penetrate into human to human or between human and space. The reductions of chaos create a place suitable for cultivate body and mind.

Award Record

Chin-Shu Chen is a winner of 8 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2016 - 2017 to 2019 - 2020 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Play Around The Light Residential Space
Function
Residential Space
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Black, Dark Olive Green and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
Fe Design Company

The Recognition

Laureate
Chin-Shu Chen
Country
Taiwan (China)
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#88472

Design Details

Unique Properties
The overall unit is injected with artistic syntax, using the design of natural stone and wood to extend the main wall design of the living room with 6-meter height. The stairways connecting the upper and lower floors are located under the dining room, where the bottom is decorated with the sculpture artworks collected by the owner. The entire stairway shapes the artistic and exciting artworks through suspension and indirect lighting.
Inspiration
In this duplex apartment of 6-meter elevated structure is designed start with consideration for residence, and care the needs of whole family. The nodes of architecture exist in the materials, ratios, lighting and chrome, as well as in the subtle relation of exclusion or attraction.
Research
The introduction of lighting through horizontal visions explains the presentation of transparency through different design and practice. The properties of materials or the ceiling design with open lines and dimension extend the space and lighting, function and interaction. The integration of different materials link up the visual rhythm of all areas, providing perfect explanation for the sounds of lighting and layers, as well as the overall circular design.
Challenge
The details inside the mansion become more vivid and colorful under the alteration of daylight and dark night. The combination of different materials, changes of high and lower levels, expression of spacious openness, and extension of lines and dimensions form the natural concept of humanity.
Realization and Technology
The living room with 6-meter height adopts the main wall connected by stone and wood with upward extension to draw the attention in the living room. The open space between the dining and kitchen area provides looping and circular flow to the space, which then becomes the mediator that gathers the relation of the family members and allows the dwellers to perceive the meaning of space existence.
Operation and Interaction
The duplex apartment design starts with consideration for residence. The design divides the public and private areas distinctly, while the concealing storage function also enhances the space. For lighting arrangement, the elevated structure provides the space with adequate atmosphere and lighting to the space through the lighting atmosphere of multiple nodes and projection with just perfection.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in April 2017 and finished in December 2017 in Taiwan.
Specifications
The inside space have 314 square feet.
Keywords
duplex apartment, artworks collection, 6-meter elevated structure, lighting arrangment

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