Press Release
Kevin Chu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Return to the Mountain Woods Apartment in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Kevin Chu for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Return to the Mountain Woods Apartment by Kevin Chu, designed for Kevin Chu Interior Design Studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 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.
About Return to the Mountain Woods Apartment
Return to the Mountain Woods is a residential interior design for an apartment of 350 square meters in Taichung. The home is planned as both a club and a residence, connected as one continuous space for gatherings with family and friends. The living room, the dining room and the central island bar counter form the reception area. The foyer uses dark wood and a marble screen that suggests flowing water. Marble, stone, veneer, titanium plating and steel panels are applied throughout. Earth colors give the private rooms a calm character.
About Kevin Chu
A home is more than a place to live; it is a way of life that requires cultivation. It tells a story we all yearn for, one that makes daily living more engaging. Interior design extends beyond circulation and function; it is about meeting human needs and emotions, creating a space where family members feel inspired to return and connect. A home reflects the soul and represents the art of living, embodying sincerity and emotion while revealing both the essence of life and the unique character of each space. Free from rigid stylistic boundaries, the design builds subtle layers between the tangible and the intangible.
Award Record
This recognition makes Kevin Chu a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2019 - 2020 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/92007
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/92007
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!92007
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/217613
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.keidesign.com.tw/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Return to the Mountain Woods Apartment
- Function
- Apartment
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Light Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Kevin Chu Interior Design Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kevin Chu
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #92007
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer Li De Kai, Return to the Mountain Woods, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The proprietor of this residential spatial planning design project is returning to Taiwan after spending a long time residing overseas, and hopes this residence will also become a gathering venue for family and friends. Therefore, the area of over 330m2 is designed into a club and residence, planning using the concept of connecting the entire space.
- Inspiration
- The foyer covers the cloakroom with dark wood color, offering a calming ambience. Spilled ink marble is used to design the screen, creating the image of flowing water. The club space uses the living room, the dining room and the central island bar counter to structure the reception area, where the appropriate spatial dimensions demonstrate a majestic manner of large areas.
- Research
- This is done using double-square circulation and iron piece sliding door to enhance the visual transparency, making it the most interesting part with versatile applications in the space. The originality fuses the two styles of majestic manner with cozy elegance in one space.
- Challenge
- The private space uses earth colors to construct dignified tranquility, while the dressing room and storage functions are concealed behind the cabinet in the master bedroom, presenting a modern simple quality differing to the style vocabulary of the public area. The semi-open study uses stone with cloud and mist colored wallpaper to demonstrate the cultural sentiment. Planned on the other side is the living space for the family, which is decorated with artworks based on the theme of cozy culture, and ingeniously planned the most non-ideal part of the indoor space into the workshop.
- Realization and Technology
- The design applied several materials including marble, stone, veneer, titanium plating and steel panel to demonstrate the modern generosity, allowing the proprietor with the feeling of entering the mountain woods when coming home with the theme of returning to the nature, fusing nature into life, extracting various elements to reproduce indoor natural landscapes.
- Operation and Interaction
- The television wall uses coarse grey Andesite to accentuate the natural solidness of stone material, while the proportioned segmentation highlights the exquisiteness and corresponds to the imposing manner of mountains and waters. The dining room uses a penetrative light fixture that resembles starlight, where a dark grey background is presented to accentuate the light spots that resemble the image of the night sky.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in 2018, locates in Taichung.
- Specifications
- The property is 350 square meters.
- Keywords
- Interior Design, Residential, House, Space, Home
