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Wen Hsuan Tai Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Proto Headquarter Office in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Wen Hsuan Tai acknowledged 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 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Proto Headquarter Office by Wen Hsuan Tai, designed for HSUAN Interior Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to 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 assessed 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.
Regarding Proto Headquarter Office
Proto Headquarter is an office interior created inside an old house of 66 square meters. The design preserves the original building mass and texture, and uses natural wood and bright tones to form a solid and calm working space. Cement and steel elements of coarse texture are combined with fine solid wood veneer, while mirrors spread changing light and shadow. An island was added where the existing beams and columns prevented the removal of partitions. Comfort for staff and guests is the main consideration.
About Wen Hsuan Tai
HSUAN Interior Design is professional to draw up well communication with space via unimpeded flow and illumination layout. Director takes a firm stand on the utilization and quality of the materials that reveals his definition of home. He is good at listening to the needs of the clients, try his best to avoid traditional thinking and dedicate to find the initial dream of the relationship between life and space for the customers.
Award Record
With this recognition, Wen Hsuan Tai 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/91702
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/91702
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!91702
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/258970
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://reurl.cc/W4EgAx
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Proto Headquarter Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- HSUAN Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wen Hsuan Tai
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #91702
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer HSUAN Interior Design, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The old house of 66 square meters transformed into as well as a rustic and sedate office. Take the advantage of the original structure, natural wood and bright hue to re-establish the solidity yet geniality space. Following the natural precedent of functional configuration, preserve the original building mass and texture to present vivid patterns merely through the twist and turn of the main axis. With deep and shallow tinge contrasting materials.
- Inspiration
- Emulating the natural criterion. Peacefully coexist with the primitive feature of the space. The inspiration is sampled from stonewall of Mayan culture. Through chiseling and stacking, construct the layering and intriguing of space. And as much as possible to introduce the sunlight; meantime retain the material original texture, so as each small section achieved the spatial property orderly and properly.
- Research
- According to the space around 66 square meters, reoriented the spatial nodes and illumination routes after repeated deliberation. Construct the space by subtraction, and layout the details by addition, so as to well organized each small section.
- Challenge
- In the early stage of construction, in order to achieve the maximum transparency and spaciousness, attempt to dismantle the compartments, but they were restricted by the original beam-column structure, thereupon set up an island, which not only turned the defect into the highlight, but also made the whole space more amusing.
- Realization and Technology
- How to present the distinct outline of the space, material selection has become the most important issue. There is no need for excessive decoration or disguise, just frankly states the primitive feature of the space. Make use of cement and steel structure of coarse texture and fine and glossy solid wood veneer, by way of the mirror staggered projection, lead to varied changes of light and shadow, accordingly introduce a timeless phenomenon.
- Operation and Interaction
- As people knows, glossy and glamour appearance would never makes people deeply touched, but the pure and firm soul that manifests from the inside out. And the inner quality of space and human is essentially identical. As an office interspace, cozy is the primary consideration, whether for staff or guests, hold high regard to their heart is what we most want them to perceive.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in February 2019 in Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) and finished in March 2019 in Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) , and was exhibited in Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.) in April 2019.
- Specifications
- An area of space is 66.11 square meters.
- Keywords
- natural, sedate, office, human, homespun, unbounded
