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Longfang Bridge Nightscape Lighting Design by Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Architectural Lighting
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd for architectural lighting
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Longfang Bridge Nightscape Lighting Design by Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architectural Lighting category. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 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 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.
Regarding Longfang Bridge Nightscape Lighting Design
Longfang Bridge is a nightscape lighting design for a road and pedestrian bridge in Wenzhou, China. The crossing combines one main bridge with two pedestrian bridges, built from concrete-filled steel tubes painted red. The pedestrian bridges use warm 2200K light to contrast with the red structure, while the main bridge uses 4000K light for traffic. Wall washers and flood lights are hidden inside the structure. Three lighting modes serve weekdays, weekends and festivals. A control system switches lights off at midnight or when daylight is sufficient.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architectural Lighting Design Award
The A' Architectural Lighting Design Award is an international lighting design competition recognizing good lighting designs by lighting designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural lighting designers, lighting consultants, industrial design studios and interior designers from all countries. Entries typically include architectural lighting, architectural illumination, architecture lighting projects, architectural light projections and landscape illumination. Awarded architectural lighting designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architectural-lighting
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/149509
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/149509
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!149509
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/343347
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Longfang Bridge Nightscape Lighting Design
- Function
- Nightscape Lighting Design
- Category
- Architectural Lighting
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Dark Slate Blue, Midnight Blue, Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray and Brown
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #149509
Credits
- Team
- Yao Shi, YiHong Chen, Jing Wang, JunChao Chen, WeiJian Xia, BiXue Liu, ShengHao Huang, XiuYa Zheng, LiFeng Wu, XingFeng Tan and ZiHui Zhang
- Image Credits
- Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd, One Thousand Degree Image
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Located in Nantang Cultural Tourism Zone and Wenruitang River Scenic Belt in Wenzhou, Longfang Bridge is a critical project for integrating vehicle and pedestrian traffic as well as expressing Tanghe Culture. Our lighting design aims to strengthen the spatial hierarchy of the bridge structure and merge the structure into the canal town environment.
- Inspiration
- Our lighting design concept is to light up the bridge to correspond to National Emblem of the People's Republic of China, which has a strong colour contrast and internal culture. Lighting integrates with the structure of bridge and merges the bridge with the quiet, peaceful and romantic atmosphere of Jiangnan canal town, turning Longfang bridge into an iconic local tourist attraction over Wenruitang River.
- Research
- The lighting design of Longfang Bridge is based on both technical and cultural field researches. Designers conducted researches on other bridges along Wenruitang River Scenic Belt to extract the overall design style of bridges in Nantang Cultural Tourism Zone. DIALux has been used to adjust the luminaire type and calculate the overall illumination. Various kinds of lights were brought to the laboratory for testing as well as the construction site and were chosen by their real performance.
- Challenge
- The bridge was designed to have a structure of one main bridge with two pedestrian bridges on both sides and the concrete-filled steel tubes were painted in red. The lighting design needs to strengthen the spatial hierarchy of the bridge structure and merge the red-painted structure into the canal town environment. Our design expresses spatial hierarchy and local culture through the contrast of lighting design colour tones and brightness between main bridge and pedestrian bridges.
- Realization and Technology
- While both pedestrian bridges use 2200K highsaturation lights to enhance contrast between warm yellow lights and red-painted structure, the main bridge uses 4000K low saturation lights to provide functional lighting for traffic and stand out from the yellow lights. Lighting effect is managed by an intelligent control system with timer and sensor to automatically switch off individual lights at midnight or when daylight is sufficient.
- Operation and Interaction
- Three lighting modes are set for weekdays, weekends and general festivals, as well as important events and festivals. Wall washers and flood lights hidden in the structure run in single colour in weekday mode, and lights for handrails will have a single colour dynamic lighting effect on weekends and general festivals. As for important events and festivals, ten theme scenes of dynamiccolour-changinglightingeffect are preset to add to the festive atmosphere.
- Project Duration and Location
- Longfang Bridge nightscape lighting design project was built in Aug. 2021 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
- Specifications
- Longfang Bridge, with a length of 387.08 meters, starts from Longfang Road in the west and ends at the planned branch road in the east.
- Keywords
- Longfang Bridge, Lighting Design, Bridge Lighting, Urban Nightscape, Wenzhou
