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Zhubo Design Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Shenzhen Shangsha Kindergarten in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Zhubo Design honored for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ Shenzhen Shangsha Kindergarten by Zhubo Design has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to 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 scored 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.
Regarding Shenzhen Shangsha Kindergarten
Shenzhen Shangsha is a kindergarten located in an urban village in Shenzhen, China. The building holds 18 classes on four floors, with a total construction area of 7304.38 square metres and a height of 16.7 metres. Classrooms follow a straight line layout, while corridors alternate between the north and south sides to create double height spaces. Three canyon like voids are embedded in the form and enclosed by 300 millimetre reinforced concrete folded walls, so sunlight enters at different times of the day. The design adds public space to a dense neighbourhood.
About Zhubo Design
Founded in 1996, Zhubo Design is mainly engaged in architectural design and relevant design and consulting services ranging from architectural design to urban planning, landscape design, interior design, etc., and is committed to the comprehensive development of the industrial chain of design and architectural technologies. After more than 20 years of development, we have expanded design services including prefabricated architecture, BIM technology, green building, sponge city, intelligent building andrelevant consulting services.
Award Record
This recognition makes Zhubo Design a winner of 8 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2023 - 2024 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/156278
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/156278
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!156278
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/326387
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shenzhen Shangsha Kindergarten
- Function
- Kindergarten
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Gray, Slate Gray, Dark Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhubo Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #156278
Credits
- Team
- Feng Guochuan, Gong Xiaowen, Yin Yipeng and Liu Shaoyi, Haosai, Deng Hua, Li Tong, Wang Jieqiong, Li Yanlong, Qi Xiaohan
- Image Credits
- Guo Hao, ACF
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Urban villages are a special form of urban development. High-density handshake buildings and grid-like street textures naturally form a single spatial pattern. The project is located at the intersection of urban villages and commercial renovations. The collision of the two spatial modes inspires the kindergarten. The creation of its own diverse spatial levels breaks the boring spatial experience of conventional kindergartens and guides children to have a rich visual experience.
- Inspiration
- The project is surrounded by residential buildings. How to form a container for visual and spatial experience became the source of inspiration for this project. The project started from the original and free canyon intention, and embedded three different places in the complete building form. Three different types of activity spaces are designed for children with different shapes and distinctive gaps; the sunlight gradually illuminates at different times, forming a container of light.
- Research
- The project is located in Shangsha Village. Most of the surrounding buildings are residential buildings in Shangsha Village. It serves mainly Shangsha residents. The east, south and west sides of the site are all multi-story residential buildings, and the north side is a new commercial renovation project. There is a relative lack of public space in the surrounding communities and a serious shortage of community cultural facilities. We believe that the construction of new kindergartens may be an opportunity to moderately improve this urban problem.
- Challenge
- The difficulty of the project lies in how to use appropriate construction materials and construction techniques, and use low-tech construction techniques to realize the relatively complex three-dimensional folded image of the project, meet the requirements of on-site construction accuracy and construction progress, and meet the complete expression of the project's own image.
- Realization and Technology
- The project adopts a frame shear wall structure system.The overall stress is borne by straight columns,folded columns and irregular folded walls.The straight columns are located in the standard unit space and provide the main stress support.The irregular folded walls are 300mm thick. Reinforced concrete walls enclose canyon spaces of different shapes;the folding columns are offset in one direction along the irregular folding walls,and the offset angle is basically controlled between 10 and 20 degree.
- Operation and Interaction
- There are 18 classes in the project.The classrooms are distributed in a straight line layout on three floors. The corridors that usually face the same side are designed to be arranged in an alternating north south direction,resulting in a double height corridor space. When children pass through the canyon along the corridor, they can feel the different spatial experiences brought by the three-story canyon space, the two story corridor,and the opposite single-story corridor at the same time.
- Project Duration and Location
- Address: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Completion time: 2023 Start time: 2017
- Specifications
- Total land area: 5525.99 square metre; Total construction area: 7304.38 square metre; Volume rate: 0.89; Building height: 16.7M; Number of floors: 4F
- Keywords
- Container of light, Canyon, Light and shadow space, Sight experience, Scale game, Architecture design
