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Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Songshan Cihui Temple - Ksitigarbha Hall Religious in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Songshan Cihui Temple - Ksitigarbha Hall Religious by Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung, designed for Parn Shyr Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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 Songshan Cihui Temple - Ksitigarbha Hall Religious
Ksitigarbha Hall is a temple interior in the Songshan Cihui Temple in Taipei City, Taiwan. The rectangular hall is 9 meters wide, 12 meters long and 9.5 meters high. A central lightwell with a Bagua diagram brings natural light into the space. White marble is used on the floor and the walls, and the walls are carved in relief with iridescent cloud patterns. A statue three meters tall stands at the center, so it can be seen and worshipped from every side. Twenty-eight carved marble columns support the hall.
About Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung
Founded in 1995, Parn Shyr Design, with its professional design team, spans across architecture, interior design, and landscape design, complemented by installation, floral, landscaping, and culture arts, with touches of poetry and elegance, have been the core design doctrine of Parn Shyr Design, striving to be an all-encompassing design firm.
Award Record
With this recognition, Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2020 - 2021 editions 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/106878
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106878
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106878
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/274361
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Songshan Cihui Temple - Ksitigarbha Hall Religious
- Function
- Religious
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Light Gray, Gainsboro and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Parn Shyr Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Parn Shyr, Yung-Hsi Peng and Pei-Chi Hung
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106878
Credits
- Team
- Yung-Hsi Peng, Pei-Chi Hung and Parn Shyr Design
- Image Credits
- Parn Shyr Design
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The 9.5 meters Bagua diagram lightwell in the center of the overall space, which will bring in a lot of natural light. The philosophic ideology of each thing generating each other and evolution is derived from the Bagua theory. With the crystal white chrysanthemum petals decorated around the top of the lightwell echoing natural daylight. On the high-ceiling oval wall, white marble is carved to mezzo-relieve with the shape of iridescent clouds. It is a unique and iconic Chinese culture figure like the dragon pattern, symbolizing fortune and standing for one of the lively art forms.
- Inspiration
- Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hall worships the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of Great Vows, who is also called the king of the hell realm due to being patient and immovable like the great earth, and his meditation is deep and profound like a secret storehouse; therefore, his name conveys the meaning of earth store. Taking the patience and steadiness of Ksitigarbha as the aim, creates the detailed designs with the inspiration from the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra, also reflecting Yao-chihuahua Chin-mu (Golden Mother of the Jasper Pool), the main goddess that Songshan Cihui Temple is dedicated to.
- Research
- With the 3 meters high Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of Great Vows statue as the main design, the rectangular space plan is different from another conventional temple hall, the oval elements spread with the planar arrangement while the statue is in the center. Marble material is used in the project on the flooring and wall evaluation surfaces. The designer adopts white lightwell to introduce natural lights in order to echo the changing light and shade in the interior. The contents of the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra are used laser cutting 8 mm acrylic carving to present on the wall.
- Challenge
- Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hall is a 9 meters wide, 12 meters long, and 9.5 meters high architecture. Being the new construction on the original site, the host of Songshan Cihui Temple dug the base and placed metal beams and columns one by one with the bare hands 50 years ago. Expect the main temple site, the other 8724 square meters space including the open square, metal built halls, etc. in total 4 buildings are torn down and reconstructed, and the 109 square meters Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hall is one of them.
- Realization and Technology
- In order to create a comfortable, outstanding, and reserved atmosphere, the white lightwell has 9.5 meters high ceiling, introducing massive natural light from the top of it. The wall elevation utilizes relief carving on marble, showing iridescent clouds surrounded the pattern. On the site of the Ksitigarbha statue, applies free and smooth grains of marble to carve lavish and natural lotus seats while the statue is carved with gentle white jade, responding to the earth-like thoughtful image of Ksitigarbha. Ksitigarbha holds in one hand citrine made Cintamani, which is has gold made Khakkhara.
- Operation and Interaction
- It is unlike the other traditional Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva halls, the project is planned to be a rectangular space. The 3 meters tall Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue is the main design of the space, and the oval elements spread with the planar arrangement, allowing each aspect of the area to see and worship the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue. On the other hand, the wall niches share a unique and noble quality and become a tranquil space.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is designed in 2020 in Taipei City, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- In the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hall, the designer applies white marble flooring and wall surface; besides, sandblasting colored glaze wall niche embed by baked painting, indicating dharma breaks all the incorrect and bad ideas and saves every person. There are a total of 28 white carved marble sustaining columns, with 14 of them have a height of 390 cm and the other 14 supporting columns have a height of 150 cm, implying the 28 benefits that the believers will receive by chanting the Original Vows of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra.
- Keywords
- Parn Shyr Design, Pei-Chi Hung, Songshan Cihui Temple - Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hall, Chinese culture
