Press Release
Baoshan U World Mixed Use by Aico Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Aico for construction and real estate projects design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Baoshan U World Mixed Use by Aico, designed for CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Construction and Real Estate Projects Design category. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 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.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Baoshan U World Mixed Use
Baoshan U World is a mixed use development in a suburban district of Shanghai. The layout uses a permeable perimeter block. Continuous facades along the city roads define an active public sidewalk, while several paths and small plazas lead into a central courtyard. The porous plan improves visual links to the nearby riverfront greenery. Community facilities and entertainment venues occupy the ground floor to keep the streets lively. Creative offices and apartments sit along the sides and surround a community service building that serves as a social and fitness hub.
Award Record
Aico is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Award
The A' Real Estate Design Award is an international architecture competition recognizing good real estate projects by architects and enterprises worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to real estate designers, architectural firms, interior designers and construction companies from all countries. Typical entries include residential complexes, commercial buildings, industrial properties, mixed-use developments, hospitality establishments and educational facilities. The awarded real estate designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/real-estate
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/106890
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106890
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106890
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/278712
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.aico-design.com/project/info/35
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Baoshan U World Mixed Use
- Function
- Mixed Use
- Category
- Construction and Real Estate Projects Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Cornflower Blue, Light Steel Blue, Sienna and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
- Client
- CIFI Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Aico
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106890
Credits
- Team
- Rudan Ye, Jing Zhang, Hucheng Yuan and Yue Huang
- Image Credits
- Xiu Huo
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The team adopt a penetrable perimeter block for the site. Continuous building facades along city roads defines an active public sidewalk, while multiple paths and small plazas invite people to the site’s heart, an energetic courtyard. This porous layout enhances visual linkage and optimize surrounding riverfront greens. The main functions of the ground floor are community facilities and entertainments to maintain streets alive. Creative office and apartments are located along the side, embracing a community service building at the center of the courtyard, as the social and fitness hub.
- Inspiration
- This project has been developed from the design team critical thinking about the relations among traditional communities, commercial buildings, its users and the nature. It has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, it have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
- Challenge
- The Baoshan U-World project is located in Luodian, Baoshan – a sprawling outer suburb of Shanghai. Although there are many residential neighborhoods nearby, the overall urban planning is the typical suburban model which emphasis automobile efficiency rather than pedestrian convenience. Very wide road red lines and large building setbacks overpower human scale and discourage pedestrian activities. How can a new development generate positive impact to change the status quo from the urban scale? How can the design team give the local community their much needed vibrant public space in this suburban context?
- Realization and Technology
- Structurally speaking, this project selects steel to apply to the whole construction in order to satisfy the proposing purpose. However, the main designing difficulty and innovation point is the combination of steel and window-wall system, especially the protruding window. Another feature of this project is the speeding process, it only takes 4 months to start from planning idea to out-facade material selection, which can be regarded as a more challenging requirement for design and all the specialized teams.
- Operation and Interaction
- The Baoshan U-World has become a successful experiment on infilling mixed-use development in suburban location. With urbanism design approach, the design team have brought more dense, dynamic and quality experiences and helped to reshape the identity of the community.
- Project Duration and Location
- Completion: 2017 Location: Luodian, Baoshan, Shanghai
- Specifications
- Total Construction Area: 30511 sqm Land Area: 14555 sqm Retail Area: 7060 sqm Office Area: 8400 sqm Apartment Area: 5590 sqm Office Building Height: 24m
- Keywords
- Architecture, Office, Facade, Vibrant Community Center, Construction Techniques, Suburb, Shanghai
