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Looping Flower Ikebana Cultural Space by Ni Jie Guo Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Ni Jie Guo acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Looping Flower Ikebana Cultural Space by Ni Jie Guo, designed for Blankspace, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 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 Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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 Looping Flower Ikebana Cultural Space
The art of ikebana is a meditation on life in the flow of the four seasons, including the ultimate capture of brief moments in Japanese aesthetics, the reconstruction of flower and branch life, and the innovative collision of structure and aesthetics. The design of the entire space is based on the spirit of Kusatsuki-ryu, extracting elements from traditional Japanese architecture and transforming them into a modern architectural language, exploring the relationship between contemporary construction and aesthetics with abstract Japanese elements.
About Ni Jie Guo
Blankspace was founded in 2016 and is located in Fuzhou, Fujian. Space is the container of flow, in which people and people, people and things, people and fields interact and stories occur, and these latent forces will "echo" in people, from which the name Blankspace is taken. Blankspace is a diversified interior design team, from the perspective of visual, planning, and interior design, dedicated to commercial brand space, public cultural space, and private custom space design, and strives to present the ultimate space experience. We advocate finding different inner genes of projects to bring more creative and fitting design solutions.
Award Record
Ni Jie Guo 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/151842
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151842
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151842
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/345600
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Looping Flower Ikebana Cultural Space
- Function
- Ikebana Cultural Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black and Rosy Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Blankspace
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ni Jie Guo
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #151842
Credits
- Image Credits
- BLANKSPACE
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This art space is located in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, with a total area of about 105 sqm. The owner hopes that this space will be able to hold experimental art exhibitions on a regular basis as a place to focus on outside the flower show classroom and as an exchange.
- Inspiration
- In designing the entire space, we dismantle the design based on the spirit of the flow of grass and moon: extracting elements from traditional Japanese architecture and transforming them into the modern architectural language, and exploring the relationship between structure and contemporary aesthetics with abstract Japanese features. So that it is not necessarily a traditional depiction but has a Japanese temper.
- Research
- The proportion of the door is obtained after the traditional Japanese style house frame has been calculated, in the design deliberately control the height, so that the visual external door is relatively small, but after entering the interior it will be felt that the longitudinal stretching of the space is very strong. This is similar to the traditional Japanese space. In the style of oriental classical architecture, it stands in contrast to the modern material form, highlighting infinitely qualitative spatial narrative techniques.
- Challenge
- Being the space of flower paths, there is a large storage demand, and we must solve these problems in the limited space. In order to create the possibility of acceptance in the space to a greater extent, we use the alley and other space to perform boundary computation, in order to ensure a clean and tidy image in the hall of flower paths.
- Realization and Technology
- In terms of the organization of the plan, the exterior of the building uses semi high stone walls as its front stage and cobbles as its transition point. Our work has opened up a third realm in the external environment and internal space, reinterpreting the traditional material media of Japanese architecture, the edge. Allowing the noisy atmosphere of the street to form a strong contrast to the tranquil atmosphere of the interior. This eliminates the sense of the rigid boundary of the building.
- Operation and Interaction
- To make it more ceremonial to enter the flower room, we will extend the line of movement to enter the room, using internal push processing to create a unique entrance to the space, increasing the time it takes to enter the building, and hoping visitors will change their state from body to mind and become immersed in the ambience. entering the flower path to study. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows enter the room and bring enough natural light into the entire space, and the open and brightly lit lecture area and exhibition area welcomes visitors. Causing visitors to temporarily forget the impetuousness of outer life and find a corner to rest in.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in August 2022 and finished in December 2022 in China .
- Specifications
- Aiming at the disadvantage that the project is located along the river and has high humidity. At the spatial level, we raised the ground at three levels, raising the first level of the ground to reduce moisture infiltration, and then setting a movable dark grid in the hollow position and placing charcoal to reduce humidity, so as to improve the problem of dampness near the river and enrich the space. In addition, the three gradual elevations also indicate the transition of the nature of space from public to private, and enhance the sense of spatial experience.
- Keywords
- Ikebana, Japanese Aesthetics, Natural Features, Relaxed
