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Joey Chang Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Crazy and Cozy Residential in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Joey Chang recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Crazy and Cozy Residential by Joey Chang, designed for 5491 Atelier. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Silver A' Design Award

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 Crazy and Cozy Residential

Crazy and Cozy is a residential interior design completed in Taipei City, Taiwan. The Memphis style guides the project, with aqua blue and light pink as the main colors, balanced by gray shades and indigo. Wooden flooring adds warmth to the saturated tones. Curved forms, hand-painted stripes and large painted storage cabinets shape the interior. A television cabinet with transparent glass acts as a partition between the public and private areas and lets natural light pass through. The open plan joins living and working needs in a limited space.

Award Record

With this recognition, Joey Chang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior

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
Crazy and Cozy Residential
Function
Residential
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Silver, Black, Dark Slate Gray, Cadet Blue and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
5491 Atelier

The Recognition

Laureate
Joey Chang
Country
Taiwan (China)
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#115629

Credits

Image Credits
5491 atelier

Design Details

Unique Properties
With the Memphis style as the main direction, the changing aqua blue and light pink echo each other, emphasize the uniqueness of the light and shadow changes in the space and harmonize the most suitable colors for each space. Even the two-color collocation can show delicate layers of feeling. In addition, bigger storage cabinets are used, which not only provides perfect functional placement, but also brings consistency to the overall style of the painted cabinet, and use the groove line technique between the cabinet and the wall to make a single space have more levels of feeling.
Inspiration
Breaking the conventional appearance of residential design, the Memphis movement is added as the preference of the client. Under the integration of bright colors, bringing out inspiration for the space users, and with strong and saturated color collision, it shows rich and varied color changes. Especially under the design team color selections, the rebellious, diverse, and full of character space features are not restricted, therefore harmoniously presents an extraordinary housing imagination.
Research
The overall design of the space will take this as the main direction to evaluate the advantages of the space and the best flow planning. The TV cabinet is used as an area division and uses transparent glass material to introduce natural light. Under the adjustment of the main color of aqua blue and light pink and its shades. In addition, the design team deliberately used a couch with a long table in the workspace and matched it with a movable Memphis style single chair to show a comfortable and lively space experience, allowing creative workers to freely get inspiration through the comfortable and creative living space.
Challenge
Although the design is based on rich colors diverse feelings, yet it also considers the harmony to the overall space. Evaluate the possible color changes of the space after being projected by different lights, and consider the conformity of the functional use and color of each space, so that the design team can think about the use of paint and color. After considering the influence of light and shadow changes, the main tone extension or darker or lighter color is modulated so that the overall space shows a richer level of change under the main color.
Realization and Technology
The inspiration starts from the clients who want to escape from the conventional home design, which means there will be no monotonous and serious design configuration in all spaces. Therefore, during the planning process, the aqua blue and light pink colors are integrated. As well as the suitable curvy shape modification, the Memphis style furnishings, and the details, showing the richness of diversity. And with the hand-painted stripes, showing a harmonious and symmetrical spatial design with multiple changes.
Operation and Interaction
In a limited space, the re-division of the spatial layout is used to create an expanded spatial experience. After considering the functional living and working requirements, the design team turned the TV cabinet into a partition wall to the private area, not only clearly define the public and private area but also at the same time it also maximizes the use of the public space, combining work and life and showing the unique style of experiencing life.
Project Duration and Location
The project finished in May 2020 in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Specifications
The overall space, aqua blue, and light pink colors are used as the main connotation, and the gray shades and indigo color harmonize it all. The wooden materials are chosen to cover the floors so that the vivid and saturated color tone brings out the warm and comfortable feeling of the home under the harmony of gray tone materials and wood tone. At the same time, the open-plan configuration is used as the concept in the public area, and the long table, couch, and long sofa take the decoration part, so space will have a bigger visual experience.
Keywords
niche booth, cat home, walala style, Memphis movement, crazy and cozy style

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