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Banboo Windows Sales Office by Kris Lin Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design

Kris Lin acknowledged for hospitality, recreation, travel and tourism design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Banboo Windows Sales Office by Kris Lin, designed for Yango, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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.

More About Banboo Windows Sales Office

Banboo Windows is a sales office interior in Xiamen, China. The 1200 square metre space draws on Yuanye, the first Chinese monograph explaining the principles of garden building. Bamboo is used as the main landscape reference, and wooden grids let light and shadow interweave, recalling sunlight passing through a bamboo forest. Marble in the reception hall is balanced by the warmth of wood. The plan includes a reception area, a display area, a conversation area, a semi-open reading area, a children's area and a private room.

About Kris Lin

2001 came to Shanghai and built “KLID Design Office” to work on the interior design for architecture.

Award Record

This recognition makes Kris Lin a winner of 61 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2011 - 2012 to 2019 - 2020 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Award

The A' Hospitality Design Award is an international hospitality design competition recognizing good hospitality designs by best hospitality designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to hospitality designers, architects, hospitality brands and hotel chains from all countries. Entries typically include hotels, restaurants, resorts, cafes, bars and cruise ships. Awarded hospitality designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/hospitality

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Banboo Windows Sales Office
Function
Sales Office
Category
Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
Discipline
Service Design
Industry
Food & Hospitality and Sports
Colors
Dim Gray, Dark Olive Green, Gray, Black and Dark Slate Gray
Images
5
Client
Yango

The Recognition

Laureate
Kris Lin
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#103242

Credits

Team
Jiayu Yang
Image Credits
Image #1,2,3,4,5: Photographer KLID 2019

Design Details

Unique Properties
The designers extracts the important landscape elements bamboo, combined with the traditional Chinese court etiquette and lyrical scenery and created a modern mansion with literary elegance and oriental courtyard order. This project has set up a variety of functional spaces such as the reception area, display area, conversation area, reading area, children's area, etc. It builds a modern humane and cultural space with oriental spirit and atmosphere.
Inspiration
Yuanye is the first monograph in China to comprehensively explain the principles of gardening,The designers translate the scenes in the book into modern space and extracts the important landscape elements bamboo, which could bend but not frack. And even if it fracks, it won t break. In Chinese culture, it represents a literati style with strength in gentleness, combined with the traditional Chinese court etiquette and lyrical scenery and created a modern mansion with literary elegance and orient
Research
Yuanye (art of garden-building) has vivid description of the building of Chinese gardens and presents the far-reaching artistic conception of Chinese gardens. As decribed in the book, Mood and Scenery, Meaning and Realm are inextricably linked with each other. Yuanye is the first monograph in China to comprehensively explain the principles of gardening, which is inseparable from China's long tradition of gardening, and reflects the highest state of human-nature relations.
Challenge
Chinese gardens emphasize the progressive court etiquette of layers and the extensive use of wooden grids. It has an orderly arrangement of grids density, revolving access and secluded winding paths, creating abundant sensory feelings in the dimension of time and space. From the perspective of denseness, transition to opposite scenery, it treats each functional space as a courtyard, and cleverly use the bridge as the connection between the courtyards (functional spaces).
Realization and Technology
The light and shadow gaps of the grid penetrate and interweave with each other. The grid is like a bamboo, as if sunlight dapples through the bamboo forest. The reception hall uses marble to highlight the calm temperament of the space and enriches the levels of the space. The warmth of wood and the coolness of marble material are balanced, and the scenery is landscaped, which blends nature and humanity.
Operation and Interaction
The reading area is presented in a semi-open style. The bookcase surrounded by three sides provides a peaceful and comfortable atmosphere for the reading. The traditional Chinese furniture has a thick oriental background. The VIP room guarantees privacy and gives the space a more diversified functionality. Elegant furniture exudes the East Classical feeling, embellished with gray-blue soft decoration fabric, creating a modern and diversified space with a timeless and elegant oriental feeling.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in March 2019 in Xiamen,China and finished in November 2019 in Xiamen,China, and was exhibited in Xiamen,China in November 2009.
Keywords
bamboo, Yuanye, Chinese culture, grid, Chinese gardens

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