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Sooyou Beauty Salon by Peihe Xie Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Peihe Xie honored 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Sooyou Beauty Salon by Peihe Xie, designed for AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen). The result belongs to 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 evaluated 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.
About Sooyou Beauty Salon
Sooyou is a beauty salon in Harbin, China, designed mainly for female customers. The interior draws on the constant fission of cells in the human body, which is translated into spatial structures through geometric shapes and simple lines. Straight lines and curves are combined to outline large geometric blocks, and the fission of these structures creates varied experiences along the circulation routes while also providing privacy. Dark gray and black tones are enlivened by a red hue. The 450 square meter space uses cement paint, felt, wall finishes and stone panels.
About Peihe Xie
AD ARCHITECTURE Founded in 2015, AD ARCHITECTURE takes win-win, coexistence, and consensus as its concept. AD ARCHITECTURE intends to gather designers of common ideas to form a collaborative design team to develop local design. Its main practice includes architectural design, interior design, and soft decoration. Focusing on design of villas, sales office, offices, clubs, and public spaces, AD ARCHITECTURE is committed to provide high-level architectural and interior designs with its professional position and innovative design concept. Its goal is to create more creative designs.
Award Record
With this recognition, Peihe Xie is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 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/110998
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/110998
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!110998
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/216757
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://reurl.cc/Xe62vg
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sooyou Beauty Salon
- Function
- Beauty Salon
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dim Gray, Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen)
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Peihe Xie
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #110998
Credits
- Team
- Xie Peihe and AD ARCHITECTURE
- Image Credits
- Ouyang Yun
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- As the largest organ of human body, skin is the interface between the physical body and the outside world. Cells are constantly dying, and new ones are being made simultaneously, to maintain the healthy state of the body. The design firm drew inspiration from the constant fission of cells in human body, and translated it into spatial structures via geometric shapes and basic lines. The "fission" of structures creates rich experiences along the circulations while also providing privacy.
- Inspiration
- Situated at Qunli New District, Harbin, China, the project is a beauty salon that mainly targets female consumers. The entrance wall echoes the arcs of the architecture with its curved shape, creates a unique perspective to look inside, and indicates a sense of mystery in the space. The spatial design is aimed at evoking certain underlying body memories of people.
- Research
- The project is a pioneering experiment that AD ARCHITECTURE carried out in commercial space design. It breaks conventional order, and injects mysterious and fun characters into the space. The designers drew on the fission and motion of cells to conceive this differentiated space, and finally produced abstract bionic aesthetic.
- Challenge
- Due to the limited budget, the designers chose to use wooden splints to realize the complex spatial form and structures, which required high degree of accuracy of size, positions and proportions. Moreover, because of COVID-19, the design team was not able to instruct the construction work on site, but simply communicated with workers through video to control the whole construction process, which posed a big challenge to the execution of design solutions.
- Realization and Technology
- The overall space is dominated by dark hues, with the areas illuminated as spatial highlights. Shadows extend along the edges of light, leaving infinite room for imagination. The shift of brightness and darkness at different layers stimulates emotional liberation, and offers calming and free experiences throughout the space. Gray and black shades set the overall tone of the space, which is highlighted and enlivened by a red hue.
- Operation and Interaction
- This is a beauty salon, in the space, straight lines and curves are combined to outline large geometric blocks, and the cool concrete generates dramatic visual effects. Lines stretch and interweave, indicating the fluidity of human cells. As the customers slowly move within the space, the contrast of the static and dynamic will become more apparent.
- Project Duration and Location
- Start time: January 2020 Completion time: July 2020 Location: Harbin, China
- Specifications
- Area: 450 sqm Main materials: cement paint, felt, wall finishes, stone panels
- Keywords
- Beauty salon, AD ARCHITECTURE, Dark, Cell, Xie Peihe, Art
