Thinker 儿童图书馆 by Brendan Cheung is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2023

Thinker 儿童图书馆

by Brendan Cheung

Client: Bi Concept Design Limited

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Thinker 儿童图书馆

宝藏儿童图书馆项目是一个相当大的挑战，因为它面积小但功能多；主要作为图书馆，还会有公共研讨会、儿童工作坊、教师培训、互动课程、故事时间等，因此设计应该有多重照明设置，并通过不同的楼层和洞穴拱门来分隔不同的区域。空间融合了明亮的色彩、形状和超大的装置，如黄色的曲线拱门、巨大的树木和书架，让孩子们仿佛置身于童话世界。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Thinker 儿童图书馆是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Thinker 儿童图书馆将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Thinker 儿童图书馆出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: this project is quite challenge, as in a small area with multi - function in it, mainly is a library, other than that, will have seminar , kids workshop, teacher training, interactive lesson , story time.....
so the design should have multi lighting setting and different floor level and cave arch to separate different zone.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is renovated existing staff office area in a kindergarten , size around 300S.M., which will divided into separate office and kids library
Tags: STEM library, Kids Treasure, Think Centre, Multi Function, Story Time
Production Technology: On this project ,the arch hallway is our focus point , this will represent the passage for kids only. The production difficulties is the scale need to match the existing structure and legal way, the delivery also is a constrain
Design Challenge: As this is a kindergarten library project , all fixtures and materials will concern the safety first, and also this is a Christian background kindergarten , so my research will combine some christian stories, STEM education and some kids fairy tale
Inspiration: this library project design inspired by disney movie, which using bright color matching , streaming shape , and some extra large fixture like curve arch, bookshelf ..... make it like fairly tales
and the design using gardening as background
Project Duration: This project July 2022 to Feb 2023 , locate in HongKong
Operation Flow: This project which planned over a year , because this is an renovated existing kindergarten project, it takes a long time to discuss with principle / teacher / and other user, and the design is need to approved by many parties including government parties.
This design most interesting things is the kids can involved and can give some ideas on it.
And the kids will monitor the processing as their project also, which they will very interested how their ideas to become true