Press Release
Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center by Arch-Age Design
Arch-Age Design recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center by Arch-Age Design, designed for Arch-Age-Design (AAD). 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center
Yinchuan Sunac City is a sales center built on the bank of Gedi Lake in Yinchuan, China. The building follows a minimalist approach, with a ring shaped volume and curved lines that follow the shoreline. The half-moon shaped roof tilts toward the lake and connects to a bridge. Slender perforated columns support the two wings of the roof. Built-in light strips glow in the evening. Perforated panels carry holes shaped after the Malan flower, the city flower of Yinchuan. A transparent glass curtain wall faces the lake. The project area is 450 square meters.
About Arch-Age Design
Arch-Age-Design (AAD) has assembled more than 1,800 excellent designers, holds a Class-A Certificate of Qualification for Architectural Engineering Design. We focus on main services including architectural design, research and development and consulting and provide a whole-process design service ranging from planning, plan and preliminary design to construction drawing.
Award Record
This recognition makes Arch-Age Design a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/111512
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111512
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111512
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/287836
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://r6d.cn/XKV2
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Yinchuan Sunac City Sales Center
- Function
- Sales Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray, Gainsboro and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Arch-Age-Design (AAD)
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Arch-Age Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111512
Credits
- Team
- Hu Zhiying and Cai Jinxian, Zhang Hongguo, Huang Mengting，Zhao Zhihui
- Image Credits
- 3: ArchiTranslator; 5: SHRIMP STUDIO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project goes for a minimalistic design approach. The circular blocks and soft and neat curved elements are integrated into the field design, resembling a strand of silk floating on the lake to embrace Gedi Lake in a natural and elegant way. The half-moon shaped roof tilts to and extends toward the Lake. The perforated slender columns are orderly scattered under the two wings of the roof. The built-in light strips glow in the evening, making the roof look like lifted up and suspended in the sky.
- Inspiration
- The project is located on the bank of Gedi Lake, in the eastern area of Yinchuan city. The construction of the park is gradually becoming the city's iconic exhibition hall and the landmark. It functions as a sales center but later as a civil cultural center open to the city. The design should create a landmark while respecting nature. It integrates Yinchuan's profound culture and history with regional characteristics, making it one of the city's iconic buildings.
- Research
- The project makes full use of the resources of the surrounding natural environment, and uses contemporary techniques to connect man and nature, integrating the present environment with time, space and light as the link. In such context, the architecture becomes one part of the park's landscape.
- Challenge
- The slanting half-moon-shaped rooftop caused the variation of structural beams, and the two large overhangs needed to be independent from the main rooftop structure. So how to ensure the integrity and lightness of the rooftop became the biggest challenge. The architects used curtain walls as envelope to weaken the splicing relationship between the two wings and main rooftop structure, and adopted slim perforated pillars to support the wings, thereby making the rooftop "float" above water.
- Realization and Technology
- The artificial stone wall corresponds to the perforated panel curtain wall. The shape of holes on the perforated panel is customized according to Malan flowers, Yinchuan's city flower. The panel splice forms two curved lines, echoing the ripples of the Lake and increasing the layers of light and shadows. The facade facing the lake adopts the transparent tempered hollow glass curtain wall, matched with pear white roofing aluminum panels, looking crystal and lightweight.
- Operation and Interaction
- The building floats on the lakeside in a ring shape, perfectly blending into the overall planning of the park. The roof is slanted towards the water surface of the lake, and connects to the bridge. It blurs the boundary between the building space and the lake, making people closer to nature. The transparent tempered hollow glass curtain wall is used on the facade facing the lake, which is light and transparent, and embraces the outdoor scenes. Visitors can sit around the lake and enjoy the view.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in November 2019 and finished in July 2020 in Yinchuan, China
- Specifications
- The project area is 450 square meter.
- Keywords
- Yinchuan, minimalistic, sales center, Gedi Lake, Malan flowers, leaving blanks, civil cultural center
