Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Jing Hong Art Installations by Wei Zhang
The international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Wei Zhang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Jing Hong Art Installations by Wei Zhang, designed for Infront. The award was conferred within 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 Jing Hong Art Installations
Jing Hong is a large art installation created for an art gallery in Beijing, China. The red form reaches 6 meters in height and extends about 100 meters in total length. The streamer shape flows from the outdoor stairs into the gallery and continues to a dining space below. A welded iron frame serves as the internal keel, and matte stretch fabric forms the ribbon surface. Curved landing points carry the load, so no columns or hanging points are used. A wind device sets part of the fabric in motion. Visitors can walk along the installation and feel surrounded by the streamer.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Zhang a winner of 10 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/161534
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/161534
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!161534
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/303120
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/3kHs7r0
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Jing Hong Art Installations
- Function
- Art Installations
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Maroon, Black, Crimson, Firebrick and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Infront
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #161534
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Rayson Wong Studio; Photographer Rayson Wong Studio Image#4：Photographer Rayson Wong Studio; Photographer Rayson Wong Studio Video：Videographer ShimmerFilm
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This is a large art installation exhibition in art gallery. The 5 meter high graceful and elegant red structure floats from the outdoors into the gallery like a flying flowing streamer, and floats in the wind to the far end and disappears in the sunset. Gallery is built in the style of a Gothic church and can accommodate 200 people. This art installation allows visitors here to feel immersed in being surrounded by streamers and moving along the streamers even if they stand at different positions
- Inspiration
- Jinghong means "Elegant as a swan, graceful as a wandering Loong"It comes from Cao Zhi's "Ode to the Goddess of Luo", which is a classic Chinese literature and is known as "a chapter unparalleled by future generations" This ode fictionalizes the author's encounter and love with godness Luo. The fictional image of Luo is extremely beautiful, so Ode of Luo has produced many beautiful poems. The world thinks that she is as graceful as swan and as winding as Loong.Full of dynamic and ethereal beauty
- Research
- Type, How to use ground installations to present the beauty of dynamic flow, achieve immersive design. Method, Focus on the shape of the curve in space. Have enough accurate data. Restore the design to the greatest extent during production, and make it by hand. An oil painter was invited to record paintings. Data, 300 people visited it. Effect: The presentation of this device has received rave reviews. It is a small budget project, uses the most common and low cost materials and has been praised by the administrator, no such design is represented in the gallery.
- Challenge
- 1 Creative linkage of indoor, outdoor and restaurant spaces. The streamers floated from the outdoor stairs into the gallery, meandered into the sunset, then floated to the dinner space downstairs, and finally landed on the table. 2 Add dynamic wind driven devices to the static exhibition. Visitors can also interact with the wind device.3 An in depth study of the mechanical structure was conducted. The 6m high device is only supported by its own curved structure without columns or hanging points.
- Realization and Technology
- 3D iron welding technology, the production of special shaped structures are very difficult. Before production, sufficient warehouse space was set aside, 1:1 modeling was carried out. Key points in the structure were determined and laid out, workers then manually performed the final bending and shaping welding. There is also a dynamic wind device in the installation. A streamer flying in the shape of the sunset. It has no structure, dances with the wind when the wind force is set by the wind device.
- Operation and Interaction
- This device can be used to visit, experience, take photos, hold weddings, etc. Jinghong is not only poem, but also the homophony of red, so the color of the designed streamers is red. Visitor can appreciate the graceful posture of this streamer at different locations, can walk into installation and feel as if streamer is surrounding and leading them towards the sunset, they have become a part of it. Sunset gives people sense of future, the orange red color brings warm power, and flying ribbons make everyone feel healed.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started with site survey and conceptual design and scheme design in February 2023. After nearly five months of preparation and half a month of construction and production, Entered the site to start construction on the evening of July 28, 2023, and completed the scene shooting and acceptance at 8 a.m. on July 29. This project can also be used for tours and wedding photography. The project is located at the China Oil Painting Academy in Beijing, China.
- Specifications
- The installation is in the interior of an art gallery. The height of the gallery is about 25 meters without any hanging points. The maximum height of the installation is 6 meters, the total length is about 100 meters, and the partial width is 50-60 cm. For beauty, the landing point in the curved shape is mainly used as the structural support. No extra columns. The iron special shaped structure is used as the internal keel, and the matte stretch fabric material is used as the ribbon decoration.
- Keywords
- Art installations, Exhibition, Handicrafts, Public art, Event decoration, Decoration
