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Thomas Abraham Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for The Crystal Hall Residential Interior in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Thomas Abraham acknowledged 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 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that The Crystal Hall Residential Interior by Thomas Abraham has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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.
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.
More About The Crystal Hall Residential Interior
Crystal Hall, located at Bangalore, India was designed as a private residence that incorporates the concepts of vernacular architecture with modern materials and technology. Surrounded by orchards, it seeks to establish the connection between man and nature. With white walls and glassy interiors, the focus was keeping the space uncluttered and minimalistic. All materials used were upcycled from the excess during construction, ensuring near-zero wastage. Designed to be environmentally conscious, it provides thermal, visual, and aural insulation, while being faithful to its aesthetic philosophy.
About Thomas Abraham
Thomas Abraham graduated with an Honors Degree in Architecture from IIT Kharagpur. He is the Founder director of a global design studio that specializes in furniture and fashion design. He is an architect with a social and environmental conscience, focusing on sustainability, recycling, reduction of carbon footprint and employing indigenous people of color. He also runs IDeA World Design School in Bangalore which is among the oldest private run design institutes in India, having educated over around 9000 students in the last few decades.
Award Record
Thomas Abraham 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. 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/129709
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/129709
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!129709
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/314170
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Crystal Hall Residential Interior
- Function
- Residential Interior
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Light Gray, Lavender, Slate Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Thomas Abraham
- Country
- India
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #129709
Credits
- Team
- Diana Jacil Prakash and Saad Pasha
- Image Credits
- Sandeep; Rashmi Srinivasan; Dullu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Crystal Hall integrates sustainability, reuses material, and uses disadvantaged local talent. Glass is a modern material that can be recycled endlessly without loss of quality or clarity, recreating bioclimatic conditions that tackle climate change. It follows a minimalistic modern approach while taking inspiration from classicism and yet being culturally, emotionally and ecologically conscious. The building follows a zero-waste policy and is an example of socially responsible design
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the state of the Earths climate and the status of its poorest this is design as an instrument for social and environmental change. It is not just an aesthetic adventure but a tool to recycle and reuse modern materials in sustainable and affordable ways. He made it his mission to hire the so called unemployable from Indias oppressed people of color. This is a building of universal human values that is yet culturally specific being inspired by vernacular Indian design.
- Research
- The Crystal Hall a big but small home is an essay on light nature and history. Apart from integrating sustainability along reusing materials and using disadvantaged local talent the architect ensured every space of the project was curated to reflect what has been religiously culturally and geographically experienced by the client. It has the worlds first residential windmill towers proprietary use of two layers of high performance recycled glass with noninvasive vegetation species within thermal insulation technology and rainwater utilization thus creating a glocal (global and local) building.
- Challenge
- Glass is often considered inappropriate for a tropical climate. But the architect used a double-layered glass - one layer reflecting the longwave radiation and the other reflecting the sun's shortwave radiation, providing thermal insulation to the building. As the project is in the outskirts where the power situation is erratic, the architect used wind power generating towers to provide backup power during windy days. The power is stored in batteries, and the excess is fed back to the city grid.
- Realization and Technology
- The structure consists an eclectic mix of glass, MS columns and cast in situ concrete. Contrary to general opinion, glass is among the most eco-friendly materials, more than compared to mud or stone, as it can be recycled endlessly without loss of quality or clarity and is made of sand, which is among the most plentiful resources available. Glass recreates bioclimatic conditions that tackle climate change while using modern materials that are culturally, emotionally, and ecologically conscious.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Crystal Hall is an example of paleomodern design, paleo meaning first. This is to take design beyond form follows function to form follows feeling, to reintroduce beauty and pleasure in art, things which were once universal but now is seen as sentimental and commercial. Things like Square proportions, Golden mean proportions, rhythm, scale, harmony and the accommodation of local and climatological aspects makes this a traditional design with a modern outlook using Avant Grande technology and materials.
- Project Duration and Location
- Located in Bangalore, India, The Crystal Hall was constructed over a span of five years, from 2014 to 2019.
- Specifications
- Site area - 2322 meter square Building area - 835 square meter Gross - 418 sqm
- Keywords
- Sustainable design, Sustainable Interior, Residential Interior, Ecofriendly Design, Innovative Design, Green Design, Interior design, White Interior, Modern Interiors, Minimalistic Interiors
