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Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel by Kevin Hu Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Kevin Hu 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/ Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel by Kevin Hu, designed for HOTEL MoMc, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. 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 Golden A' Design Award
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel
Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Mountain is a resort hotel interior located in the Jiuhua Mountain scenic area of Chizhou City, China. The interior supports meditation, meeting, learning and rest. A reception hall, a meditation room, a leisure and discussion area and a tea room are arranged around a lotus pond, which forms a buffer zone and a viewing distance. Local materials such as brick, tile, wood and stone are used with modern building techniques. Courtyard corridors follow the direction of the mountains. The guest rooms follow themes drawn from local Hui culture and Buddhist thought.
About Kevin Hu
an interior designer who has more than ten years of experience in the top brand hotel and high-end interior design service. As principal designer of many well-known brand hotels in first-tier cities in China, Kevin has formed mature and sensitive perspective of design and he has always been based on a theory of pure design:harmony, balanced, rhythm.He think design is not only creation work, but also should deal with the relationship between people and space, space and elements to make the whole balanced in the process of potential dynamic development, and finally to achieve design reliability, which he think is the basis of design, and also his inspiration and original intention when...
Award Record
This recognition makes Kevin Hu a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/91828
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/91828
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!91828
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/218304
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel
- Function
- Hotel
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Linen, Gainsboro, Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- HOTEL MoMc
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kevin Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #91828
Credits
- Team
- Kevin Hu, Vivi Zhang
- Image Credits
- Zhang Qilin
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Lotus Zen tourism town is located in the core of the south side of the Dayuan Cultural Park in Jiuhua Mountain scenic area, Chizhou City, Anhui Province,China. It was built on the background of Jiuhua Mountain history and the Tibetan culture. The project is a Zen house of this town integrating various functions such as heart-building, self-cultivation, meeting and learning. It can also be used as a rest and living space for people coming here to experience.
- Inspiration
- Inside this project, reception hall, meditation room, leisure negotiation area, tea room and Chinese Circle are all arranged with the six senses of Eye, Nose, Ear, Body, Tongue and Meaning as the clues, representing what people see and hear, and even the whole spatial perception, blending natural landscape and cultural atmosphere to sublimate the space experience to the spiritual level.
- Research
- This project compromised the landscape of Jiuhua Mountain and the local Buddhist culture, highlighted the core of tourism and leisure resort functions, with a harmonious blend of people and space, space and architecture, architecture and nature, created such a traditional and tasteful yet equally modern building-a landscape of mountains and rivers with great oriental connotation.
- Challenge
- It also reflects the designer's design thinking about the fusion of Jiuhua's local cultural history and contemporary space design.
- Realization and Technology
- Situated in an open site surrounded by the mountains, the exterior of the building is covered with a wide layer of water, while the interior functional space is distributed around the lotus pond to create a buffer zone and viewing distance among the pedestrians. The architecture uses modern techniques that incorporate large amounts of local materials like brick, tile, wood and stone, and it was constructed to combine with the courtyard corridor in an undulation form, referred to general extension direction of the mountains, building a natural and peaceful world finally.
- Operation and Interaction
- Zen Hall is deliberately drawn from the century old buildings in Anhui province, such as the lotus styling and the lighting ornaments, paintings are fully integrated into the overall space, increasing the sense of fit with the local natural and cultural environment. And the guest room area is built according to the different themes from local Hui culture and Buddhist thoughts, not least for the town, it is also a powerful attempt to integrate into the Jiuhua Mountain and the international tourism and culture demonstration zone of southern Anhui province.
- Project Duration and Location
- 2019.5, Chizhou City, China
- Specifications
- Each area of this project is filled with Chinese traditions and local characteristics, for instance, the lighting installation of the entrance reception hall is decorated with unique bamboo shape, which originally created by one of Taiwanese artists. This space is commonly used for lecture, Zen meditation, tea or flower ceremony and other public activities related to Buddhism.
- Keywords
- Jiuhua Mountain, Buddhist culture, Zen house, H DESIGN
