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Structural Beauty Office by Zhongliang Xiang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Zhongliang Xiang recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Structural Beauty Office by Zhongliang Xiang, designed for Narration Space, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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 Bronze A' Design Award
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 Structural Beauty Office
Structural Beauty is an office interior designed for daily work and client reception. The design emphasises the influence of the spatial structure itself on people, and seeks a relaxed and natural comfort through calm and restraint. Simple and smooth lines appear carefully cut. The colour scheme combines clear white with firm grey. Terrazzo, panDOMO, gypsum board, wood and paint form almost all of the surfaces. A raised platform to the north divides the space and opens the views outwards. Natural light from north and south meets in the centre of the hall.
About Zhongliang Xiang
Zhongliang Xiangis the design director of Narration Space. Focusing on interior design for more than 15 years, he has led many large-scale and high-complexity design projects, and won the unanimous praise of the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. His design concept emerges from the interaction between human and the world, explores the ultimate significance of human in the world, and expresses the essence of human with space.
Award Record
With this recognition, Zhongliang Xiang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/90537
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/90537
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!90537
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/257059
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Structural Beauty Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Narration Space
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhongliang Xiang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #90537
Credits
- Team
- Yang Chen
- Image Credits
- Photographer Nifengxiao, Corridor, 2019.; Photographer Nifengxiao, Reading Area, 2019.; Photographer Nifengxiao, Water Bar, 2019.; Photographer Nifengxiao, Bookshelf, 2019.; Photographer Nifengxiao, Audio-visual Area, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This space contains the designers' understanding of people and space, which emphasizes the influence of space structure itself on people, and pursues the relaxed and natural comfort of people in space in calm and restraint. The simple and smooth lines are like being carefully cut, perfectly releasing the charm and temperament of spatial structure.
- Inspiration
- This case is an office space for daily work and customer reception. Its design concept emerges from the interaction between human and the world, explores the ultimate significance of human in the world, and expresses the essence of human with space. The overall atmosphere is as cool, rational and introverted as Yamamoto's clothing design. Minimalist and Wabi-sabi are the theme throughout the space design.
- Research
- The pursuit of social material and information resources is a natural instinct of human beings. Instant information and rich material world bring us a sense of security. With the development of society, people pay more attention to the conformity with their own self-spirit besides their own practicality in exploring the structure of office space.
- Challenge
- Walking into the interior of the office is like entering a Wabisabi dream. The designer's skillful mastery of natural light makes the interior space seem full of vitality. The light pouring into the north and south converged in the center of the hall, making the whole space quiet and bright. The atmosphere of the whole hall has changed brightly and darkly, and the demeanor is more vivid.
- Realization and Technology
- In the collocation of colours, the concise and clear white is added with the calm and firm gray. The contrast between gray and white forms a mild but obvious impact. In the use of materials, it is also very symbolic. Like its minimalist concept, terrazzo, panDOMO, gypsum board, wood, paint, these basic building materials make up almost all of it.
- Operation and Interaction
- In the functional design, considering the exquisite feeling of every guest who comes to negotiate, the south window of the original house is relatively low, and the top is higher, after design, the top is pulled down and made into a sharp top, pull low effect to reduce the sense of hollowness which lives among them, the design of the pinnacle makes the whole space more smart and warm.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2018 in Shanghai and finished in January 2019 in Shanghai.
- Specifications
- With the elevation of the ground in the north is raised, the views interact more smoothly with the outside world. The addition of the platform makes the whole space visually coherent, which will give people more pleasant experience. The wooden floor is covered with traces of time, which gives the depth of history in this brand new space. The platform is the concrete expression of spatial segmentation.
- Keywords
- Interior, Minimalist, Modern, Simple, Art, Office, Wabisabi
