Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to The Next 40 Years Office by Szu Hsin Cheng
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Szu Hsin Cheng for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ The Next 40 Years Office by Szu Hsin Cheng, designed for Sd Haus, has been granted the Bronze 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 assessed 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.
Regarding The Next 40 Years Office
The Next 40 Years is an office interior created inside a renovated building in Taichung, Taiwan. The design preserves the existing vegetation of the site and the original building frame. Materials are used efficiently to reduce waste. Granite from the site was recycled for the outdoor pavement, and recycled tiles form a stair platform. Local Taiwan incense cedar was applied as indoor decoration. Old enclosing walls were removed and replaced with grilles, opening the courtyard and the layered planting to the neighborhood.
Award Record
With this recognition, Szu Hsin Cheng 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/93300
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/93300
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!93300
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/260111
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Next 40 Years Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Black, Dark Gray, Dim Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Sd Haus
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Szu Hsin Cheng
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #93300
Credits
- Team
- Ting Che Kao, Ruei Jeng Wei, Ruei Hong Yuan and Cheng-Ta Hsieh
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In this building, all the design and renovation was kicked off with the premise of preservation of existing site vegetation, with the material efficiency rendering minimum waste reflecting the sustainable initiatives of this project, such as recycling granite materials for outdoor pavement, and recycled tiles were used as stair platform. Furthermore, the second-floor conference room also preserves the original building frame, incorporated with the cabinet volume to form a wall of books, along with the onsite Taiwan incense cedar was utilized as indoor office decor with memory, culture, and history.
- Inspiration
- It is located in the community corner, the building with large pieces of natural stone material for the base model impact in the face of the corner road, the designer to convert implications on the appearance of the facade, with stones, trees and flowers, and plants for urban street corner space becomes more natural and friendly, to reinterpret the past memory and life, to construct the urban old community residence, giving a new life and appearance, as well as the urban corner space to express the concept of open sharing.
- Research
- Situating in the old US military dorm zone in Taichung, Taiwan, this 40-plus-year-old building was renovated and transformed itself into a studio space of architectural practice. The design team leveraged on its corner position, along with broken-down fence, expanded balcony and embedded masonry staircase, to open up the courtyard, while layered vegetation was able to be shared by its neighbors.
- Challenge
- Under the existing spatial structure, the building has a new function. How to balance the old and the new by retracting, releasing, pumping and stacking, thus achieving the integration of the old and the new, and creating a charming architectural appearance and comfortable internal space became one of the challenges of this project.
- Realization and Technology
- The designer removed the old walls that had been enclosed and cut off so that the architectural appearance and natural landscape could interact with the neighborhood through the grilles in a multi-layered and dialysis manner. Meanwhile, the stair steps cut from the original stone were used to place natural elements in the city, so that visitors could change their mind through the pavement as they ascended the stairs.
- Operation and Interaction
- In order to keep the trees planted in the original site and to meet the needs of the new space, the designers carefully considered the addition and blank space of the building to facilitate the interaction of internal and external space. In addition, a large outdoor terrace that outside of second-floor entrance, which is led up by a staircase, gives a new cognitive feeling and environmental perspective to the neighborhood space, and controls the facade expression of the building below the original building roof, avoiding the destruction of the skyline at the intimate scale of the original community.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2017 in Taiwan Taichung
- Specifications
- The actual indoor flat is about 207 square meters
- Keywords
- Environmental protection, sustainable development, renovation of the old house, stone steps, grille fence, sun terrace
