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Zmake Office by Xiaobo Ye Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Xiaobo Ye acknowledged 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 Zmake Office by Xiaobo Ye, designed for Zmake. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored 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 Zmake Office
Zmake is an office interior design covering 1100 square meters. The layout is organized around a 21 meter T shaped corridor, which serves as an information gallery and an interactive space that every person passes before entering the work area. Bamboo weaving is used as the main decorative element, appearing as twisting forms at the entrance and the bar, as large arrays above the corridor, and as enclosing screens in the reception and incubation center. Bamboo, terrazzo, paint and stainless steel are the main materials. The design focuses on the relationship between people and space.
About Xiaobo Ye
Xiaobo Ye, design director of ZMAKE, born in 1986. In 2009, he graduated from the interior design majorof School of design and art, Henan University of Technology, and has been engaged in the design industry for nearly ten years. He has completed many high complexity design projects, and won unanimous praise in the industry with professional ability and rigorous attitude. At the same time, he has made great achievements in many domestic and foreign design competitions. XiaoBo Ye has been engaged in the work of scheme design since graduation, and has contacted various fields of interior design. For design, he has his own unique design logic and insights.
Award Record
With this recognition, Xiaobo Ye is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2019 - 2020 edition 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. 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://dezigners.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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/102167
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/102167
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!102167
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/274008
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://c7.gg/fVeNA
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zmake Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gray, Dark Olive Green and Maroon
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zmake
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaobo Ye
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #102167
Credits
- Team
- XiaoJing Feng, JingLi Zhao, Zongqi Zhao, Changyuan Su and Peng Wang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Ming Guo, Reception, 2019.; Photographer Ming Guo, Bar, 2019.; Photographer Ming Guo, Corridor, 2019.; Photographer Ming Guo, Open Office, 2019.; Photographer Ming Guo, Entrance, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- "Make a different office space, completely jump out of the past office space thinking, to re-understand the new office model." In this office space project, the designers try to design with a new concept. A 21-metre "T" corridor and turned it into an information promulgation gallery, which is also an interactive space that everyone will pass before entering the office area.
- Inspiration
- The designers launched an artistic, leisure and sharing attempt around people. The artistry is to let the company's personnel think in soul and spirit, the leisure is to let everyone relax physically and enhance freedom of action, and the sharing is to let everyone establish more communication and greatly improve work efficiency.
- Research
- The designers believe that office space should not only solve the relationship between people and things, but also the relationship between people and people, and the relationship between people and space. These are the four relationships that they need to solve in defining office space. However, in the final analysis, the core of office space is still people. Paying attention to people's behavior is still the essence of space.
- Challenge
- As an indispensable element of this scheme, bamboo weaving device is presented in different forms in different spaces. The twisting and revolving extension model circles around the theme entrance of "narrow doors, long distance, low light" and the top of the comprehensive bar, giving space flexibility and vitality. Large-scale arrays are formed at the top of the "T" platform corridor to make the space more hierarchical. Form enclosed space in the incubation and reception center of the program.
- Realization and Technology
- The main materials in this project are bamboo, terrazzo, Dalek paint and stainless steel.
- Operation and Interaction
- Nine bamboo knitters, all of them from Lu'an, Anhui Province, were involved in the bamboo knitting. Five bamboo Knitters from the early stage of cutting to grinding, and four bamboo Knitters from the later stage went to the construction site to knit. The total length of the bamboo strips used for knitting was about 12 kilometers.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2019 in Zhengzhou and finished in April 2019 in Zhengzhou.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 1100 square meters. The bamboo weaving work lasted 35 days. The longest part of the single bamboo weaving was 11 meters, and the width was 17 millimeters and 20 millimeters. The use of bamboo weaving aims at inheriting the spirit of craftsmen and inheriting the traditional bamboo weaving technology and the natural material "bamboo".
- Keywords
- Interior, Office, Modern, Simple, New concept, Design Company, Artistic, Leisure, Sharing
