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Posto P10 Fuel Sales by Balko Argentina Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Balko Argentina for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Posto P10 Fuel Sales by Balko Argentina, designed for Balko Argentina Sa, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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 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.
About Posto P10 Fuel Sales
Posto P10 is a gas station located in Manaus, Brazil. The project is the remodeling of an existing station, carried out to apply a unified brand image. The canopy spans 40 meters in the longitudinal direction and 11 meters in the transversal direction, with no intermediate supports. Two eccentric legs made of metal and reinforced concrete carry the main structure. A translucent ceiling admits daylight from above, and artificial lighting is used at night. The open layout allows a smooth flow of vehicles and pedestrians across the site.
About Balko Argentina
BALKO is formed by a group of interdisciplinary professionals and employees whose main objective is to satisfy the clients' needs. In order to accomplish this goal the company honours its slogan: "we get involved", as they firmly believe in teamworking. For BALKO, their employees are their main resource; they are the ones who translate the projects of their clients into realities. The company has been working for 20 years in corporate architecture, retail stores and gas station sites, creativity and graphic design and organizing shows and events.
Award Record
With this recognition, Balko Argentina is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2020 - 2021 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/108920
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/108920
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!108920
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/239376
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.balko.com.ar/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Posto P10 Fuel Sales
- Function
- Fuel Sales
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Rosy Brown, Dark Salmon and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Balko Argentina Sa
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Balko Argentina
- Country
- Argentina
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #108920
Credits
- Team
- Enrique Chardon, Beatriz Cruz, Ernesto Sister, Hernan Gelis and Juan Mallo
- Image Credits
- All images were provided by our client and approved for beeing used on the application for this award.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project is part of the transformation that the brand "Equador energia" suffered as a result of the visual identity unification with "Dislub energia". It was based on the remodeling of one of the most important and chosen gas stations in the area of Manaus, transforming it into an (incredible) improved Flagship for the brand. This design is materialized by a Startingate model with 40.00m of free light in the longitudinal direction and 11.00m in the transversal direction of full development that allow the flow of natural light throughout the property and a smooth flow of vehicles and pedestrians that enjoy the station.
- Inspiration
- Together with our client, we sought to have the design of this gas station radically transform the fuel sales market in Brazil. Inspired by concepts of monumentalism, which we associate with terms like: Aethereo, Futurist and Technology, and ECO - friendly desing, since it is located in the Amazon region, which is considered the lungs of the world.
- Research
- For this particular project we did not carry out any specific creative process, because those processes had already been done when designing the new image of the company. Our work consisted mainly in optimizing and correctly use ofthe design choosen to be able to apply it in that specific gas station that needed to be remodeled with the new premises of the brand image.
- Challenge
- the market for gas stations in Brazil is gigantic. And the level of design that we observed, at least in the city of Manaus, left a lot to be desired. Our biggest challenge was to design a gas station that was on par with those that are present in the bigest cities of the world, with a limited budget, and in a place where users are guided to buy more by the price of their fuel than by the design and comfort of the station.
- Realization and Technology
- For this project, we first carried out an extensive market research. Gas stations in Brazil are very different from what we are used to. Once we had a clear idea of the situation, we investigated what was outstanding in Mananos, how its people were, what customs they had, how they spent their time, etc. In addition, we were able to found creative paths that help us to identify design concepts. We presented three to our client, and they choose the "monumental" path, and the rest is history.
- Operation and Interaction
- This iconic gas station in the city of Manaus has positively and radically changed the landscape of the city in which it is developed. It has helped to give more lighting and status to the area, not to mention that it has also encouraged the movement of both vehicles and pedestrians. In the future it will also encourage the development of new shops in the area, as this is a flagship station and has a large influx of customers.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project is located in the city of Manaus, in Brazil. We started to work with our client on November 2017, and once the renovation process started we were abble to see the see the re-oppening on July 2020.
- Specifications
- The design has 40.00m x 11,00 m of free light, united by two eccentric legs made with metal and reinforced concrete. They are responsible for linking the main estructure. The aesthetics of the canopy transmits lightness and modernity. On the roof there is a translucent ceiling, that creates the effect of being always illuminated, by day thanks to zenithal lighting and by night by artificial lighting. On the front and back we find themain identification through the Brand Panel.
- Keywords
- gas station, flagship, fuel sales, gas & oil,
