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Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Starcofree Coworking Office in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Starcofree Coworking Office by Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li, designed for Tenon Interior Design. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding Starcofree Coworking Office
Starcofree Coworking is a coworking space in Taichung City, Taiwan. The design combines offices and conference rooms with a kitchen, a bar counter and a shared dining area. Equipment for lectures and open display areas for merchandise are also provided. Star shaped radial light strips on white walls mark the entrance corridor. Glass partitions, large windows and a diamond shaped grid ceiling keep the interior open and well lit. Polished concrete floors, exposed steel beams and recycled fiber boards give a simple and rustic character. Soundproof walls separate the work and dining zones.
About Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li
With over 10 years experience of designing and constructing, Li had participated in many construction projects design, while having also hundreds of interior design projects in hands.
Award Record
Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/106940
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106940
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106940
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/279565
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Starcofree Coworking Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Silver, Dark Slate Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Tenon Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tenon Interior Design - Yi Cing Li
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106940
Credits
- Team
- YI-CING LI
- Image Credits
- STARCOFREE COWORKING SPACE
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Unlike conventional coworking space, this space includes several functions such as kitchens and bar counters. It not only provides meals for users, but also offers professional equipments for lecture, as well as open commodity display space for startup groups and multi-commercial services corporation. As for business areas such as offices and conference rooms, in addition to maintaining moderate privacy, it also focuses on natural lighting and space transparency to create a humanized and comfortable office environment.
- Inspiration
- The design concept of this case is "parallel integration, vertical sharing", which not only provides convenient dining choice for office workers in the building, but also does not want the space to be idle during non-dining hours so that it has combined office area and food court together. Starting from "where the stars gather", the corridor at the entrance is presented in the form of "starlight corridor", through the white wall and the star-shaped radial extension of the light strip, creating an boundless visual sense.
- Research
- In the spirit of "where the stars gather", the star-shaped radial light strips at the entrance has created an boundless visual sense. The interior contains an open space that combines offices and a shared dining area with a 270-degree window view and a bar which serves light meals. People can find inspiration through changing spots; and there are event exhibition equipments and merchandise display areas which bring more business possibilities.
- Challenge
- Due to the combination of the office and the restaurant, the flow patterns, sound insulation and odor must not interfere with each other, which is relatively rare in the space design. Therefore, the design team has first anchored the restaurant and kitchen area, and then started the movement planning according to this, with a self-developed APP , Scan QR code to separate access control for shared space and business area. In order to avoid sound interference in the business area, the construction specifications of the soundproof wall has raised to the level of the recording studio.
- Realization and Technology
- Based on the spirit of establishing a friendly environment, the interior decoration adopts a subtractive design such as maintaining the original fire-resistant cladding the exposed steel beam structure, and furnishing with exposed grids and a diamond-shaped grids; in addition, making use of lightweight decoration like polished concrete floor and fiber recycled materials such as mud boards and yellow cypress wood composite materials so as to let the whole space show a simple and rustic ambience.
- Operation and Interaction
- The design team introduced the beautiful scenery from high altitude into the room through a large area of windows, giving the space a new definition. In here, people can switch working positions at any time, such as choosing a window-facing area where they can sit and rest and also bath in warm sunlight; they can also move to the corner and enjoy the 270-degree mountain and metropolitan landscape or to the FREE BAR snack area and business gift box area , replenishing energy and browsing a various commodities.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in July 2019 in Taichung City, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- Through the use of flow pattern and the glass compartments, the overall space is spacious and well-lighted whether it has an external window or not; the top lighting frame is matched with the diamond-shaped grid to modify the open pipeline in the ceiling. Moveover, the transparent design stretches the longitudinal axis of the space. Furthermore, the ceiling of the open space is covered with fire retardant coating and spray paint, and the middle layer is matched with slime board til the smooth wall, and the texture shows a gradual process from coarse to fine.
- Keywords
- coworking space, simplicity, sense of technology, office, restaurant with views, indoor greenery, healing, startup
