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Shohei Sekiguchi Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Ariake Garden Shopping Complex in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Shohei Sekiguchi honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ariake Garden Shopping Complex by Shohei Sekiguchi, designed for Ariake Garden, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
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 Ariake Garden Shopping Complex
A ground plaza where you can feel the four seasons, and a multi-story terrace with abundant greenery. The "green curtain" is a stack of multi-tree planters, which is a symbol of architecture, and the "green ring" is a ring of laminated planters for planting at the main entrance and a laminated curtain of light. This facility, which is a fusion of planting and architecture, is a huge facility that exceeds 80,000 m2, and you can feel nature wherever you are, providing a place for visitors to relax.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shohei Sekiguchi 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/126936
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/126936
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!126936
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/311469
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ariake Garden Shopping Complex
- Function
- Shopping Complex
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Sky Blue, Light Gray, Light Sky Blue, Dark Slate Gray and Cornflower Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Ariake Garden
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shohei Sekiguchi
- Country
- Japan
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #126936
Credits
- Team
- Hiroyoshi Takakura, Toshiyuki Maeda,Kentarou Minami.
- Image Credits
- Photo Copy rights: S .Inc,Nacasa & Partners Inc.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A ground plaza where you can feel the four seasons, and a multi-story terrace with abundant greenery. The "green curtain" is a stack of multi-tree planters, which is a symbol of architecture, and the "green ring" is a ring of laminated planters for planting at the main entrance and a laminated curtain of light. This facility, which is a fusion of planting and architecture, is a huge facility that exceeds 80,000 m2, and you can feel nature wherever you are, providing a place for visitors to relax.
- Inspiration
- The population of the Ariake area in Koto Ward continues to grow rapidly, and it is expected that the population will increase by about 30,000 over the next 15 years. On the other hand, in the bay area where skyscrapers are lined up, there are few green plazas where you can relax in the city, and there are not enough bases to support the lives of local residents. In contrast to the surrounding buildings that are lined up vertically, this facility has a large lawn square that spreads out in a plane, and by constructing terraces of various sizes in multiple layers, we plan a variety of relaxing places.
- Research
- By adopting various greening methods in the right place in a well-balanced manner, such as original laminated planters, pot-type wall greening, lawn plazas, and wire-type greening, in one facility, we plan the construction centering on the planting plan. We proposed a commercial facility where you can feel nature wherever you are in a huge facility.
- Challenge
- We examined in detail the mechanism that does not hinder the growth of planting in the architectural design, and realized a facility that combines architecture and planting. Wastewater treatment of plants that does not spoil the aesthetics of the building, verification of the required soil thickness that differs depending on the tree species, selection of plants suitable for the environment by mockup experiments, securing of planting maintenance space for maintenance, We are considering details that take planting into consideration in various places so that we can create a sense of unity with the architectural design, such as the automatic irrigation system.
- Operation and Interaction
- Development zone "national Strategic Special Zone" for Olympics game 2020 Tokyo.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project Duration: year2017-year2020 Jan. Location: Ariake,Tokyo,Japan
- Specifications
- 5 stories, Steel Structural Building. Commercial Use. Total floor area:above 80,000sqm.
- Keywords
- Greenery, Facade Design, Commercial,
