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Sialk Multi Patterns Wood Flooring by Sahar Bakhtiari Rad Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Building Materials and Construction Components Design
Sahar Bakhtiari Rad recognized for building materials and construction components design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Sialk Multi Patterns Wood Flooring by Sahar Bakhtiari Rad, designed for Barahas, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Building Materials and Construction Components Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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.
More About Sialk Multi Patterns Wood Flooring
Highlighting the softness and freedom by free forms and lines in a natural context in praise of culture and tradition of ancient. This is the philosophy of this design. Changing the previous mentality to the new vision, imagination and re-thinking on the patterns of wood floors to inter the modern life style. Sialk is a unique eco-friendly, water proof wood flooring which is combines with a completed shape and two pieces of this figure formed along each other and specialized to give the chance to anyone to have four choices for pattern the floors.
About Sahar Bakhtiari Rad
Sahar Bakhtiari Rad is the founder of Barahas, a brand focused on the design and production of a variety of products with a strong emphasis on high production quality and precise standards. Combining aesthetics with usability, her goal is to create products that are both visually appealing and functionally effective. With an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, Sahar brings a fresh perspective to the design and manufacturing process, constantly striving to provide new and efficient solutions. Through Barahas, she contributes to the design industry by participating in international competitions and earning prestigious awards such as the A’ Design Award.
Award Record
This recognition makes Sahar Bakhtiari Rad a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Building Materials and Construction Components Design Award
The A' Building Components Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good building components by best brands and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to building material manufacturers, building material brands, construction product designers and industrial designers from all countries. Entries typically include bricks, beams, windows, doors, insulation materials and roofing materials. Awarded building components designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/building-components
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/163844
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163844
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163844
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/356998
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sialk Multi Patterns Wood Flooring
- Function
- Multi Patterns Wood Flooring
- Category
- Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Manufacturing
- Colors
- Sienna, Peru, Gray, Dark Gray and Silver
- Images
- 4
- Client
- Barahas
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Sahar Bakhtiari Rad
- Country
- Iran
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163844
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A distinctive aspect of this design is that one shape create four patterns which not only does each pattern present its own specific design, but also it is optimized for manufacturing process due to support the different designs by one production pattern. This design is in an effort to preserve the environment without using harmful substances and urea formaldehyde in production.
- Inspiration
- A new face of the wooden patterns which inspired by the heritage and culture the one of the oldest and known civilizations in the world called Sialk situated in Iran; Where that be famous for having several thousand-year-old pottery with geometrics, plants and animals motifs, which are signs of great human civilization.
- Research
- Relying on several years experience, achieving technical knowledge by having the factory of wood products and wood flooring and doing the design projects, paying attention to the weak points of producing and installation, focusing on weakness and strength of the parquets after installation in projects, field research and interview with clients and customers about their expectation of design and spaces of real life; was created a highly distinctive, dynamic, modular and aesthetically pleasing building product and material for interior spaces.
- Challenge
- The challenge of design and manufacturing process was about the dimensions of the shapes, both separately in their plywood sheets and together for installation regarding not to waste the wood. At first, the form was designed in one piece and shape for just having a new pattern. After facing with the problems of producing and woods and considering the dimensions of plywoods sheets, the idea of deviding the form in two pieces was appeared. This idea solved the problem of not used spaces of the sheets, created four new forms, caused designing the new packaging for three pieces which can uses for all patterns.
- Realization and Technology
- Engineered wood flooring is the newest technology in manufacture of wood floors which controls and balances the quality, behavior and sustainable of woods and suitable for underfloor heating system. In order to implementation of curves, angles and radius, wood CNC machines are used and instead of Urea formaldehyde which is harmful for environment, D4 glue is used.
- Operation and Interaction
- With four separated patterns, anyone is able to have a choice for designing their life spaces and floors. The two pieces can be matched together with the main form and create the new pattern or Each of them can be chosen alone. One of the pieces have also in two creative patterns. In addition to these four distinct patterns, each patterns can be installed in different angles which create different final composition in interior design.
- Project Duration and Location
- Design process started in September 2023 and the first prototype was produced in November 2023. Research and development was done in the first six months of year 2024 and it was decided to be launched at the same time of the design award result announcement.
- Specifications
- Featured and remarkable point is that the main form are placed in the standard dimension of plywood sheets with considering wasted spaces on the sheets. It means that there are three shapes place on the plywood sheet. The main form and the two shapes created by separating that in two pieces and these three shapes are layout together considering of the sheets dimensions and regarding no use spaces. For the next patterns, two shapes created of the main form are produced in separate plywood sheets which each sheet has been be layout considering to less wasted wood.
- Keywords
- Wood Flooring, Patterns, Multi-patterns Parquet, Eco-Friendly Parquet, Parquet Patterns
