Hu Sun Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for CIFI Donut Kindergarten in Landscape Planning and Garden Design

Hu Sun acknowledged for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that CIFI Donut Kindergarten by Hu Sun, designed for Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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.

Regarding CIFI Donut Kindergarten

CIFI Donut Kindergarten is attachedto a residential community. In order to create a preschool education activity place integrating practicability and beauty, it tries to combine the sales space with the education space. Through the ring structure linking the three-dimensional spaces, the building and landscape are harmoniously integrated, forming an activity place full of fun and educational significance.

Award Record

This recognition makes Hu Sun a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award

The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design

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/99232
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/99232
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!99232
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/267243
Further Information from the Laureate: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pYUJ5MXa_9rtE5UQdI0SIw

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: CIFI Donut Kindergarten
Function: Kindergarten
Category: Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Sustainability
Colors: Dark Olive Green, Gray, Dim Gray and Dark Gray
Images: 5
Client: Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD

The Recognition

Laureate: Hu Sun
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #99232

Credits

Team: Xiaochen Ma, Yu Wang, Huidi Wang, Zixuan Cheng and Zhi Li
Image Credits: Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Bird Veiw; Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Slide; Songkai Liu,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Terrace; Xi Rao,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Solid Space; Xi Rao,CIFI Donut Kindergarten Huge Sculpture

Design Details

Unique Properties: CIFI Donut Kindergarten is attached to a residential community. As one third of the outdoor space is on the roof of the building, the relationship between landscape and architecture is particularly closer. In accordance with the ring structure of outdoor space, we enrich the fun of this ring space by connecting various levels. Multi-level outdoor play tour not only helps integrating the interior and the outdoor spaces, but also stimulating the three-dimensional activity of the landscape space.
Inspiration: "Donut" is the core concept of our design. Children are encouraged to run freely through the interesting circular space, as they are supposed to release their nature and enhance physical exercise.In the main space, there is a tree aiming to carry child's natural memory of childhood. Combining with the three-dimensional flow, children enjoy the joy of flying around the tree like sparrows. The funnies part is roof space. Feeling like playing on the air gives them more pleasure to take off at ease.
Research: Through the actual big data research of network questionnaire survey conducted by WeChat (APP in mobile phone), three groups (children, parents and teachers) as research objects, were set up to implant corresponding functional modules. The results of this research further improve the spatial function.
Challenge: The project has a high degree of integration between architecture and landscape, which also brings difficulties in the combination of multiple specialties. In order to solve the contradiction between the structure, kindergarten design specification and space creativity, the designer conducted more frequent inter-professional communication through network meeting and other more convenient ways. In the future, the network will be more and more developed, so that there will be a closer connection between different majors. Making good use of this will bring more inter-professional integration to projects.
Realization and Technology: By using the tapered beam of the entrance roof, the thick structural parts are hidden out of the eyesight, which makes the roof lighter from people’s view. The number of columns, which are required for stabilizing the slide, could be reduced by a decorative ring, using the mutual force. And finally, the slide space with a more spiral visual sense is presented, which is overlapped with the traffic system of the flying Gallery, forming a unique visual feeling.
Operation and Interaction: The architecture design and landscape elements are fully integrated in three dimensions, for it ensuring the accessibility among multi-level roofs, easily and interestingly. It makes the kindergarten a paradise for children to stay.
Project Duration and Location: Project duration: May 2019 to October 2019 Location: Hefei, China
Specifications: Landscape design area: 6,773 square meters the building covers an area of 4,172 square meters
Keywords: Kindergarten, children space ,three-dimensional space, ring structure