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Ann Yu Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Tic Art Exhibition Center in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Ann Yu honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Tic Art Exhibition Center by Ann Yu, designed for Times China Holdings Limited. The recognition forms part of the 2022 - 2023 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Golden A' Design Award
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.
More About Tic Art Exhibition Center
Tic Art is an exhibition center designed as a public urban landmark. The design covers landscape, architecture, interior and products, and offers a comprehensive yet rhythmic spatial experience. Red bricks formed with 25 sets of molds are used across the building and the landscape, following the local clay brick tradition and lowering the construction cost. A double layer curtain wall combines ceramic bricks with a modern structural system, filters direct sunlight and reduces heat conduction. The building area is 8000 square meters and the landscape area is 16000 square meters.
About Ann Yu
Ann Yu is the founding partner and creative director of DOMANI. She is a representative young architectural/interior designer in China, dedicated to the integration of architectural landscape and interior, spatial somatosensory and experimental space design. She is good at achieving a high premium image of commercial space for many enterprises through high creativity and strong commercial balance. Since 2008, the team has won more than 100 top international design awards.
Award Record
This recognition makes Ann Yu a winner of 12 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2015 - 2016 and the 2022 - 2023 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. It 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. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/149026
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149026
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149026
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/161426
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.hkdomani.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Tic Art Exhibition Center
- Function
- Exhibition Center
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Sienna, Rosy Brown and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Times China Holdings Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ann Yu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #149026
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- TIC Art Center is a public urban landmark project.The overall design scope of covered landscape, architecture, interior, and products, bringing together the innovation of structure , aiming to provide a comprehensive yet rhythmic spatial experience .This project Influence as a micro urban landscape.It also Impact re-active the product trend of hand-made brick industry that makes a successful practice of environmental-friendly architecture.The project has become a destination for numerous visitors, while contributing to the brand value of the client as well as the land value in the area.
- Inspiration
- From north to south in China, the color of claybricks usedinfolkhousesgenerallychanges from dark to light. From the traditional use of humus to make clay bricks, which resulted in great losses of arable land and woods, to today's large-scale industrialized production of clayand terracotta bricks, the genes of ‘brick’ and ‘masonry’ in Chinese folk architecture continue to be passed on. Of these, red bricks are particularly widely used in folk buildings for their low cost. With the developmentof urban construction criteria, however, traditional bricks and masonry techniques no longer meet the requirements of large-scale public buildings.
- Research
- Since 2020, Chinese government has tightened macro control of the real estate sector, and the policy of rating real estate firms into four classes based on three key indicators signifies that the period of demographic, land and financial dividend is coming to the end. This has caused anxiety in the land market, and real estate developers in the private sector are taking a wait-and-see attitude. The game rules in the real estate market are evolving. In September 2021,TIC, alandmark urban maker town developed byTimes China, was unveiled to the public.
- Challenge
- The overall passive design of the building minimizes energy consumption through the double-layer curtain wall system (clay brick grid + cavity + insulated low-e tempered glass) on the east, south and west facades. Compared with conventional curtain walls, the system reduces the heat conduction of the building by about 30% and estimated cooling energy consumption by 30%, effectively improving its insulation performance. At the same time, the 240mm-thick side openwork brick curtain wall system forms a sunlight filter, preventing glares caused by direct sunlight while enhancing the softness of the light through refraction. An arch with a maximum span of 29 meters is created on the facade wall.
- Realization and Technology
- The red bricks used through out architecture and landscape werecreated by 25 sets of molds,resulting in a continuous ambience in the project. The unify material selection was based on the local clay brick production tradition, and achieved a lower overall construction cost, as well as efficiency. The red bricks used in TIC Art Center were created by 25 sets of molds, resulting in rich specifications and trimming systems. The scale and proportion of the bricks were modernized in relation to the specifications of ‘hand-holdable bricks’, through iterative research on the six indicators, i.e.
- Operation and Interaction
- The viewing platform stretching to the middle of the pool provides a panorama of the main facade of the building. The mesh-like double-layer curtain wall system is both the visual highlight and the technical focus of the project. A unique grid masonry effect is achieved by combining traditional ‘ceramic bricks’ with modern curtain wall structural design. Equilateral triangular modules are assembled to form the mesh-pattern facade. Thanks to the concealed anti-dropping nodes of the curtain wall, the unique aesthetics of the openwork masonry is ensured, and meanwhile, damage and falling of the ceramic panels are avoided.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in October 2019 in Foshan and finished in October 2021 in Foshan, and was exhibited in October 2021.
- Specifications
- Landscape area：16000㎡，Building area：8000㎡
- Keywords
- Art Center,Integrated Design,Exhibition Center,Handmade Bricks
