Hanyangling Museum by Biwei Zhu Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design

The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Biwei Zhu for cultural heritage and culture industry design

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category for Hanyangling Museum by Biwei Zhu, designed for Wilbur Design Studio. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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 evaluated 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 Hanyangling Museum

Hanyangling is a museum exhibition design dedicated to the Han Dynasty in Xi'an City. The museum covers 1600 square meters on two floors, one of which is underground. Han Dynasty pottery figurines unearthed by archaeological excavation are displayed in cabinets made in three sizes. Spotlights are added in different numbers according to the density of the relics on show. Stone is used on the walls and grey plastic on the floor to create a calm atmosphere. Multimedia interactive areas and a reproduction of an archaeological site explain the culture of the period.

Award Record

Biwei Zhu is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award

The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Typical entries include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. The awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/cultural-heritage

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/89585
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/89585
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!89585
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/174456
Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.hylae.com/

Media Contact

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+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Hanyangling Museum
Function: Museum
Category: Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Arts and Social Impact
Colors: Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Olive Green and Black
Images: 5
Client: Wilbur Design Studio

The Recognition

Laureate: Biwei Zhu
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #89585

Credits

Team: Construction Unit：Shaanxi Daqin Expo Co., Ltd., Wilbur Studio, Chao Zhang and Jin He
Image Credits: Wilbur Images

Design Details

Unique Properties: The theme of the exhibition is clear. It is based on the first golden age created by Emperor Hanjing in the Han Dynasty in Chinese history - "the rule of Wen and jing". There are various cultural relics of Han Dynasty terracotta figures unearthed from archaeological excavation on display here. These cultural relics have exquisite shapes. Through the exhibition design of this space, we can get a proper visual presentation.
Inspiration: Like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
Research: Varieties of exquisite pottery relics are displayed by distinctively visualizing techniques and using powerful technical means, like multi-media interactive areas and reproduction of archaeological sites, which provides the ancient art heritages with new vitality, thus fully reflect the material culture, political systems and spiritual features of the Han Dynasty. The new exhibition aims to bring new visual experience to visitors and to help them realize more stories behind those relics.
Challenge: This exhibition project displays thousands of exquisite exhibits, all of which are national cultural relics. While considering the space layout design, how to classify the exhibits according to the information of these exhibits and create the corresponding visual atmosphere is a serious challenge. Because it takes a long time and is very complicated. At the same time, the exhibition requires a high quality of technology, to meet the safety protection performance of cultural relics, and to control the light reflection of glass to avoid the visual interference during the exhibition.
Realization and Technology: In the space environment, stone materials are mainly used on the wall and grey plastic materials are used on the ground to create a quiet and peaceful atmosphere as a whole. According to the cultural relics to be exhibited, the exhibition cabinet has been designed into three sizes, and different numbers of professional spotlights are installed according to the density of the cultural relics on display, so as to highlight the exquisite shape of the pottery figurines of the Han Dynasty on display.
Operation and Interaction: It receives a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every day, and has professional museum commentators. Here, is full of the strong Han Dynasty traditional culture atmosphere, is helpful for people to study deeply the Chinese culture. In the space, unique visual effects and strong technical backstage support, such as multimedia VR roaming, archaeological site restoration, etc., display a variety of exquisite ceramic relics, making the ancient Chinese art heritage glow with new vitality.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in August 2018 and finished in July 2019 in Xi'an City.
Specifications: The project area is 1600sqm2 in total. It is a museum with two floors, one of which is underground.
Keywords: Archaeological, Museum, Exhibition, Han, Historic