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Poro City Exhibition by Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun Wins the A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun 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 Poro City Exhibition by Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun, designed for Architecture for community Los Angeles, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within 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.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Poro City Exhibition
Poro City is an exhibition design built from milk crates. The crates form a brick-like system that is neither transparent nor solid, holding the exhibition without a rigid boundary. Undulating porous walls frame views and recall the breeze block surfaces found in Los Angeles. The modular kit of parts is fast to assemble and can adapt to different indoor and outdoor sites. The installation uses 1100 crates of 33 cm by 33 cm by 28 cm within a 200 square meter gallery. Bright colors transform a familiar utilitarian object into a welcoming space.
About Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun
Chieh-Ting Chuang graduated from UCLA AUD Master of Architecture degree with distinction in June 2020. She grew up in sunny southern Taiwan and finished her Bachelor of Architecture degree at National Taipei University of Technology. Her past working experience ranged from various scales. She worked with Gensler Los Angeles office, Kevin Daly Architects, and the Department of project management at UCLA. She has a deep interest in architecture technology and the environment with her good understanding of various software.
Award Record
With this recognition, Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/133740
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/133740
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!133740
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/322376
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://shorturl.at/juHZ8
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Poro City Exhibition
- Function
- Exhibition
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Chocolate, Gray, Coral, Sienna and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Architecture for community Los Angeles
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chieh-Ting, Yushan Martha and Kyoung Eun
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #133740
Credits
- Team
- Chieh-Ting Chuang, Martha Kriley and Yushan Men.
- Image Credits
- Photo credit: Dylan Corr, Kyoung Eun Park Video Credit: Martha Kriley. Gary Doran Graphic Credit: Nick Imbriale, Christopher Manzano, Philana Kim
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Poro City proposes a dialogue with the many communities of Los Angeles. Milk crates function as a brick system that is neither transparent nor solid, housing the exhibition without imposing a rigid boundary. The milk crate's flexibility allows for various design options that can adapt to different spaces. Moreover, its immediately familiar iconography makes it approachable to a wide range of audiences.
- Inspiration
- Packaging is often a means to an end. We receive a good, unwrap it, and discard the container. However, some forms of packaging, like shipping crates and pallets, are designed for durability and reuse. These sturdy qualities often inspire more robust modes of use than initially intended. The same is true for the milk crate.
- Research
- We were inspired by the project brief, which called for a design that could be distributed at indoor and outdoor sites throughout Los Angeles. We wanted our design to be recognizable regardless of its location, and to create a space while connecting to each unique neighborhood. We settled on a kit-of-parts construction using milk crates as our primary building material due to their adaptability and recognizability. Assembled as undulating porous walls, crates frame views and emphasize the experiential relationship between exhibition and site. The stacked brick pattern recalls the textures of breeze block walls, iconic surfaces of the LA landscape.
- Challenge
- Due to the viral milk-crate challenge from Tik Tok, and to discourage climbing on the walls, we also made the decision to treat seating as a separate element rather than integrating it with the exhibition walls.
- Realization and Technology
- Our modular crate system was designed to be easy and fast to assemble. With the help of volunteers, we were able to construct all of the walls in less than a day. COVID has kept many of us indoors, so it was great to get together at Helms Bakery for the exhibition.
- Operation and Interaction
- Our vision for this exhibition was to exemplify the ability of people to create the extraordinary from the mundane. Showcasing milk crates, which by their nature are utilitarian objects, celebrates this resourcefulness. The bright and unexpected colors further elevate and transform the material and show it in a new way.
- Project Duration and Location
- It is located at Culver City, California. It starts construction on October and stand in the gallery from November to December.
- Specifications
- It is constructed with 1100 counts of 33 cm x 33 cm x 28 cm milk crates and distributed in a 200 square meters gallery.
- Keywords
- exhibition design, reuse, second life,
