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SSS Litter Bin Outdoor Trash Classification by Zhifeng Xu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design
Zhifeng Xu acknowledged for street furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 15, 2018 /DesignNewswire/ SSS Litter Bin Outdoor Trash Classification by Zhifeng Xu, designed for S.h.a.w.architecture & Design Studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Street Furniture Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided 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.
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 SSS Litter Bin Outdoor Trash Classification
This project was initiated at 2017 Urban Design Festival, with theme of “Creating Better City Life Through Design”, a design campaign co-produced by Urban China Magazine and AssBook. Xu Zhifeng was invited as designer to renovate a small part - 20 litter bins on the Yuyuan Road, which enjoys everlasting reputation for its cultural and architecture beauty and value. After interview with the sanitation workers, Xu decided to keep only the same liners and ex-dimensions, create a whole new outlook by minimal material, details, signs and colors, max functions of the bin embed a smoking station.
About Zhifeng Xu
Xu Zhifeng studied architecture at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University between 2003 –2008. Since this time, Xu has moved on to explore the theoretical and social experience of architecture through a series of performance pieces and art exhibitions that intervene with urban spaces, and challenge the observers experience of the built environment. In 2013, Xu established S.H.A.W. Architecture & Design Studio in Shanghai, working range of small scaled projects from book design, furniture design, interior design, stage design, exhibition design and landscape design etc. Recently his studio focuses more on the public space and communities in Shanghai.
Award Record
Zhifeng Xu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Street and City Furniture Design Award
The A' Street Furniture Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good street furniture designs by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to street furniture designers, industrial design studios, street furniture brands and street furniture manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include benches, bollards, bus shelters, bicycle racks, litter bins and planters. The awarded street furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/street-furniture
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/64291
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/64291
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!64291
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/220411
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.shawads.com
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- SSS Litter Bin Outdoor Trash Classification
- Function
- Outdoor Trash Classification
- Category
- Street Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Gray, Silver, Yellow Green, Dark Slate Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- S.h.a.w.architecture & Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Zhifeng Xu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2017 - 2018
- Design ID
- #64291
Credits
- Team
- XU Zhifeng
- Image Credits
- XU Zhifeng
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- A modest unification with bold contrast of maximised functionality and capacity to minimised material and finish, i.e. largest opening for dropping trashes from two sides, painted interior with two vivid colours to indicate recyclable and the others, both user friendly for pedestrians and cyclists. Additionally, the upward design ashtray collector, offer better social smoking stations under Shanghai's restricted indoor banned smoking policy. Optimised conductors also simplified maintenance works.
- Inspiration
- How to use design to change the dirty images of sanitation facilities, turning the ordinary and the functional into a quality design or even a 'luxury' piece, by purifying the information and reducing the details to earn a respect from the users back to the sanitation workers and themselves. However design is not the single solution but to provide a better hardware to the systematic management, perhaps a smart one.
- Research
- Site interviews with sanitation workers, to collect their opinions of how to redesign and make their work easier. Mapping the existing local bins and analyse the extras on visual communication etc. Budget control.
- Challenge
- Budget control, door hinge and T.C.L.
- Realization and Technology
- Full body welding of 304 stainless steel with fine brush finishes. Metallic baking paint and silk printed signs.
- Operation and Interaction
- The sanitation workers felt happier when maintaining the new bins, since less labor is required to keep all corners clean. One shop owner sent a drink gift to the designer at inspection, because the colours told her immediately where to drop the trashes, instead of reading carefully in different languages etc.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project took part of the Urban Design Festival 2017 Shanghai, replacing firstly 20 existing bins on Yuyuan Road, between Dingxi Road and Jiangsu Road, more info click http://www.nnndf.org
- Specifications
- 900mm x 400mm x 1000mm 40L can liner x2 5L removable ashtray
- Keywords
- SSS Municipal Litter Bin, Outdoor Rubbish Can, Smoking Station, Street Furniture