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Yong Zhang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Love and Other Fitness Center in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Yong Zhang 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/ Love and Other Fitness Center by Yong Zhang, designed for Touch Design, 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 determined 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.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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 Love and Other Fitness Center
Love and Other is a Pilates studio in Tianjin. The interior covers 300 square meters across two floors. The first floor holds a public training area, a leisure area and a vegetarian beverage area, where the reception desk is combined with the drinks counter to shorten staff movement. The second floor holds the equipment area and the private teaching area. Stainless steel is used as the main material, together with a white painted ceiling and a smooth panDOMO floor. Large mirrors on selected walls make the space feel wider.
About Yong Zhang
Yong Zhang, senior interior designer, the founder and design director of Touch Design. He graduated from the engineering management major of Tianjin University, and received Bachelor's Degree. 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. At the same time, he has achieved good results in many domestic and foreign design competitions. In Yong Zhang's opinion, design should touch the heart, trigger the aesthetic feeling, stimulate the experience and guide the direction.
Award Record
With this recognition, Yong Zhang 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/94489
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/94489
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!94489
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/262501
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.tj-touch.com
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Love and Other Fitness Center
- Function
- Fitness Center
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Light Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Touch Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yong Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #94489
Credits
- Team
- Xin Ma
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yuhua Kou, Resting Area, 2018.; Photographer Yuhua Kou, Leisure area, 2018.; Photographer Yuhua Kou, Public Training Area, 2018.; Photographer Yuhua Kou, Public Training Area 2, 2018.; Photographer Yuhua Kou, Vegetarian Beverage Area, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The first Pilates studio in Tianjin designed by Touch Design, has broken the usual established mindset. Because designers want to distinguish Pilates studio from the ordinary gym, and combine sports and style to design with primitive, natural, exquisite and modern sports elements. Therefore, in the design process, they chose exquisite stainless steel as the main material, with exposed white ceilings, and panDOMO floor, to plan another kind of stretching space for trainers.
- Inspiration
- Most of people try to make themselves better for the people they like, and the process of transformation, perhaps is their best appearance. This Pilates studio is designed to make people stronger and better through sports. Just like the movie "Love and Other Drugs", designers hope that everyone who plays here can get the "Drug" through Pilates, which can change their living conditions and quality of life.
- Research
- There are two layers of space in this case. The first layer is Pilates public training area, leisure area and vegetarian beverage area. Designers combine the check-out and consultation functions of the reception desk with vegetarian beverage area, to make the movement line in the space more reasonable and make the staff more efficient. The second floor is mainly the equipment area and private teaching area.
- Challenge
- As the saying goes, "There are many beautiful skins in the world, but few interesting souls." Touch Design's persistence and exploration of design has never ceased. A super clean-looking Pilates studio has become the carrier of light and brightness with exquisite stainless steel metals, forming a dazzling brilliance in space.
- Realization and Technology
- In the design of the ceiling of the whole space, designers mostly use white latex paint to finish the original top surface, with the exquisite feeling of stainless steel stairs, partition walls and dining tables, plus the neutral and non-textural panDOMO floor, so that the whole space reflects a special strength of beauty, making people look so clean and comfortable.
- Operation and Interaction
- Visual impact is more likely to affect people's psychological feelings, so whether on the first or second floor, designers all have designed super-large mirrors on the necessary walls. Through the reflection of the mirror, the tension of the whole space is enlarged and the sense of space is more intense.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2018 in Tianjin and finished in April 2018 in Tianjin.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 300 square meters. At the beginning of the design, designers considered such necessary areas as rest area, dressing area, storage area, toilet, bathroom and vegetarian beverage area, so that people gathered here for training can enjoy comfortable physical and mental relaxation besides regular exercise.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Fitness Center, Modern, Concise, Fashionable, Pilates Studio, Touch Design, Primitive, Natural, Exquisite
