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Wenjiang Shouan Flower Exhibition Center by Yun Lu - MUDA Architects Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design

Yun Lu - MUDA Architects honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Wenjiang Shouan Flower Exhibition Center by Yun Lu - MUDA Architects, designed for Minjiang Village, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

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.

Regarding Wenjiang Shouan Flower Exhibition Center

Wenjiang Shouan is a flower exhibition center built in Minjiang village, Shouan town, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. The building brings together a flower planting exhibition area, a business conference center, a township training center and a sales space for local products. The roof follows the traditional form of Sichuan folk houses and is made of blue tiles and a local timber structure. A free spiral line fills the irregular triangular site and is stretched vertically to shape the interior. Skylights and scattered facade openings bring natural light inside.

About Yun Lu - MUDA Architects

MUDA-Architects was found in Boston, USA. In April 2015, MUDA entered Chinese market and built Beijing office and Chengdu Office. MUDA is composed by creative designers with the background of global diversification, who are forward-looking, experienced, professional and ingenious in the field of architecture and design, and focus on architectural practise. MUDA has realized several award wining projects including Residential Stadium Design Competition in USA, Xinglong Lake Bookstore Architectural Design Competition and was selected as principal designer for Altay Airport.

Award Record

This recognition makes Yun Lu - MUDA Architects a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award

The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Wenjiang Shouan Flower Exhibition Center
Function
Flower Exhibition Center
Category
Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture
Colors
Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dim Gray, Slate Gray and Light Blue
Images
5
Client
Minjiang Village

The Recognition

Laureate
Yun Lu - MUDA Architects
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#101476

Credits

Team
Yun Lu and Yun Lu, Jiandan Xu, Fan He, Yixuan Mei, Dian Rong, Chenyu lv, Dan Ni , Shuaibing Sun
Image Credits
MUDA-Architects

Design Details

Unique Properties
At the end of 2019, MUDA-Architects received the entrustment of the owner to design a osmanthus exhibition hall in Minjiang village around the main urban area of Shouan town to build a diversified natural ecological exhibition space integrating flower planting exhibition center, business conference center, township training center and surrounding product sales.
Inspiration
Inspired by the works of art, the design uses the traditional roof forms and materials of Sichuan folk houses to intervene in modern aesthetic techniques, abstract deformation, and the small exhibition hall is like a sculpture to form a new architectural form with simple image and great tension.
Realization and Technology
Through natural curling and artistic processing, the building creates a multi-functional experience space with open space and continuous wall and roof. At the same time, the roof of the whole building is made of blue tiles and local wood structure, and the external facade is treated with scattered openings. The roof is equipped with skylights to introduce natural light. Based on the local materials, combined with the contemporary breakthrough in conventional methods, to achieve a new expression of modernity and locality.
Operation and Interaction
The project is located in an irregular triangle. It is designed to fill the whole plot with a free spiral line, determine the building plan, and then stretch vertically to form a simple and unique space. People are naturally drawn into the building like water.
Project Duration and Location
The project site is in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Now the design is completed and estimated date of completion in September,2020.
Keywords
Exhibition Center, art, travelling, hospitality

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