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Whyte Woolf Fitness Club by Arthur Yang Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Arthur Yang honored 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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Whyte Woolf Fitness Club by Arthur Yang, designed for Outerspace Design Firms. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Silver A' Design Award Explained

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

More About Whyte Woolf Fitness Club

Whyte Woolf is a fitness club interior in Chongqing, China, covering 1500 square meters. The design gives attention to spirit rather than shape. Contemporary art is used as decoration throughout the club, including figures wearing gas masks. The intention is to remind members of air pollution and to encourage them to protect the environment while they exercise. Terrazzo, artificial wood, steel plate and recyclable materials are used. The elements are kept simple, so careful workmanship is needed to realize the concept.

Award Record

With this recognition, Arthur Yang 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Whyte Woolf Fitness Club
Function
Fitness Club
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Saddle Brown, Black, Sienna, Maroon and Chocolate
Images
5
Client
Outerspace Design Firms

The Recognition

Laureate
Arthur Yang
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#95555

Credits

Team
Ye Yang、Xinan Zhou
Image Credits
Photographer Kai Zhao, Whytewoolf fitness club, 2019.

Design Details

Unique Properties
It is a fitness club.Almost all of the commercial space designers take notice of the Shape of the design,but he prefers pay attention to the Spirit .In his opinions,in a commercial space with more people,to guidance clients focusing on the present problems such as Environmental problem,Eastern and western cultures collide and so on is important.The purpose of this is to make consumers during the fitness even can enlighten the mind.Main propose idea is from Self salvation of the Spirit Level.
Inspiration
In recent years with China’s accelerating urbanization process.All kind of urban diseases are highlighted.More people like to go morning run but in fact due to the expansion of lung width more harmful substances will inhale because of the bad air. The whole fitness club decorate with the models who wear gas masks is his design motivation.The purpose is to warn fitness people to protect and cherish the current environment from their own ability.
Research
Contemporary art in the field of contemporary art as a decoration in space aim to give people spiritual enlightenment.
Challenge
Because the design elements are relatively simple, so good workmanship is needed to restore the original intention of the design in the actual construction. The difficulty is that the simpler it is the more meticulous it needs to be.
Realization and Technology
Terrazzo ,Artificial wood, Steel plate, Recyclable environment protection materials
Operation and Interaction
Through information research overthrow the program fitness club design of the past, rebuild a whole different space by breakup in conception. He thinks that if designer wants to reach a certain height they must constantly deny and doubt themselves. There is an old saying in China that all good things need to be thoroughly tempered. Denying himself is also a kind of self salvation.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in March 2019 and finish in June 2019 design for three month, and was construction in Chongqing.
Keywords
Fitness, Recycle, Environment protection, gas mask, alcohol.

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