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Ufia Hotel by Xiaobing Yao Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Xiaobing Yao for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ufia Hotel by Xiaobing Yao, designed for Yao Xiaobing Design Studio, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The recognition forms part of 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.
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.
Regarding Ufia Hotel
Ufia is a hotel interior design located in Chongqing. The project covers 1200 square meters and remodels the existing interior. In the elevator lobby, layers of gypsum board form peak shapes finished with black artistic paint, recalling rolling hills. A mirror stainless steel sculpture hangs in the center like a wave, and silver water drops appear to splash on the black rubber floor. Carpet, dark gray artistic coating, rust-like coating and white latex paint are used in the public areas. The design brings the landscape of Chongqing into the hotel.
About Xiaobing Yao
Xiaobing Yao, a famous independent designer, is the founder and design director of Yao Xiaobing Design Studio. In his opinion, design is an applied art rather than a pure art. He pursues the lasting vitality of space, and believes that even the best design works also need exquisite details of the craft to reflect. His design concept does not limited to a certain design style, with the precise positioning of the customer's target demand, he combines design sense, humanization and intellectualization, and achieves high-quality and efficient spatial solutions through artistic expression.
Award Record
Xiaobing Yao is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 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/95747
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/95747
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!95747
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/230854
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://c7.gg/fSzbd
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ufia Hotel
- Function
- Hotel
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Yao Xiaobing Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaobing Yao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #95747
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Guang Ji, The Reception Hall, 2018.; Photographer Guang Ji, Guest Room, 2018.; Photographer Guang Ji, Guest Room 2, 2018.; Photographer Guang Ji, Corridor, 2018.; Photographer Guang Ji, Details, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In this case, designers mainly want to reflect a peak shape made of plasterboard with black artistic paint finishes protruding from the top surface, forming the peaks of the rolling hills. Now many designs focus on the materials of the wall, floor and rooftop, but the designers want to elaborate feelings from a spatial perspective. They hope to be able to portray the landscape of Chongqing into the hotel, and giving travelers an artistic conception of one rainy autumn night.
- Inspiration
- Chongqing faces the water on three sides and leans against the mountain on the other, cascading buildings and circling roads create the unique night view to the mountain city. Therefore, designers use water and water drop as creative elements of sudden inspiration in the whole hotel, combining with Chongqing symbols.
- Research
- The decoration combines Chongqing's landscape elements, and each room has a different theme. In addition to being an excellent place to stay for tourists, the hotel's characteristic decoration itself has made it become a tourist destination, especially famous among young people. In addition to convenient transportation, close to the major attractions, and easy for exploration, the hotel's public areas and guest room design are worth taking pictures of those who come here.
- Challenge
- This project has a lot of curved surfaces and it is difficult to put out the line. For the ceiling of the elevator hall, the drawings use three points and one line respectively according to the ceiling levels of different heights, that is, mark the starting point, end point and quadrant point, and the elevation of each point. After receiving the renderings, the workers did not know how to carry out the construction process. So the designers rushed to the scene immediately to guide the workers.
- Realization and Technology
- In the elevator lobby, reception hall and hotel corridor of the Ufia Hotel, the materials designers have used are floor carpet, dark gray artistic coating, black high-gloss latex paint, rust-like artistic coating, mirror stainless steel, white latex paint and black rubber.
- Operation and Interaction
- For this project, in order to realize the design as soon as possible, when the project team is at the construction site, many surface layers and curves are staked out according to the model made by the model group in the computer. To ensure the degree of visual rendition from the rendering to the real-scene map can basically reach 95% and above.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2019 in Chongqing and finished in September 2019 in Chongqing.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 1200 square meters. It mainly remodeled the interior decoration. On the top surface of the elevator room, and the layers made of gypsum board run through the space like a hanging river. In the middle, the stainless steel sculpture hangs down, which is like a wave. The small amount of silver water drops splashing on the black rubber ground look very prominent.
- Keywords
- Interior, Hotel, Modern, Simple, Art, Water Drop, Chongqing Characteristics
