SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis by Meng Shenhui

SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis by Meng Shenhui is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Graphica Competition Category.

ArgentumGraphica· 2025

SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis

by Meng Shenhui

Client: Meng Shenhui

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Graphica Category

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The Design

About SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis

Aedificium Docendi SDI est designatio visualis spatialis pro interiore aedificii docendi sex tabulatorum. Parietes magnae amplitudinis cum litteris magnae amplitudinis coniunguntur, ut atmosphaera vacua et rigida creativa reddatur. Typus litterarum classicus Germanicus rationem docendi Germanicam scholae designationis resonat. DIN, typus litterarum normalis signorum viarum Germanicarum, informationes ducentes notat, dum Futura pro ceteris textibus adhibetur. Pigmentum parietale subtile usque ad quinque metra applicatur, coloribus superpositis et litteris cumulatis. Quidam textus ex acrylico facti sunt ut contrarium materiarum creetur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. SDI Teaching Building Designatio Visualis Spatialis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Solving the originally empty, rigid, and lifeless issues of the teaching building with light construction, low cost, and heavy impact methods, the design utilizes large-scale walls combined with large-scale text for spatial visual design. It adopts the classic century-old German font to echo the college's unique German teaching training model. In terms of layout, it uses detailed design such as text stacking, color overlapping.
Dimensions & Packaging: The space has 6 floors, the first floor space is 5 metres high and the building is hollowed out with a very distinctive rotating staircase leading up to the 4th floor.
Tags: Shenzhen Technology University, Space vision, space design
Production Technology: The design breaks the sense of large color block segmentation and the empty, rigid, and lifeless atmosphere within the building by using large-scale walls combined with flat text, font, and creative layout methods.The construction carried out fine wall paint on the wall up to 5 meters, and adopted the way of color overlapping to make the space more vivid and artistic. Some local text used acrylic to form a collision between materials.
Design Challenge: The client wishes to infuse the originally empty space with vitality and approachability while maintaining a minimalist aesthetic, and also to achieve an international visual experience and the creative atmosphere that a design academy should have.
Research: Shenzhen Technology University, established in 2016, is a new applied university in the Greater Bay Area. Its School of Creative Design, with an international educational philosophy, has cultivated many talents. However, the school's spatial atmosphere has not kept up with its swift growth. The large-scale space feels empty and dull, and the high ceilings and massive spiral staircases make the space rigid and lifeless. Additionally, the strong industrial feel and prevalent gray tones create a teaching environment that lacks warmth and feels distant.
Inspiration: The design breaks the sense of large color block segmentation and the empty, rigid, and lifeless atmosphere within the building by using large-scale walls combined with flat text, font, and creative layout methods. It adopts the classic century-old German font to echo the German teaching model of the Creative Design Academy, using the DIN font, the standard font for German road signs, as the guiding functional text font in the space, and Futura font for other uses.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenzhen in April 2023 and will be completed in Shenzhen in August 2023
Operation Flow: This building has 6 floors, we do visual design for the interior space of this building, that is, "help him put on a beautiful dress", so that the children studying here can feel the design atmosphere, and strengthen the logo of each floor, so that he is more distinctive and more visual impact.
In terms of layout, it uses detailed design such as text stacking, color overlapping, and digital projection to create a strong visual impact and greatly enhance the creative design atmosphere.
Patents: Intellectual property rights：孟申晖Meng Shenhui
/Shenzhen Chengmei Culture Communication Co., Ltd
Image Credits: Photographer:Huang Yinghua