Press Release
Xiang Li Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Fab Cinema in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Xiang Li acknowledged 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 announced that Fab Cinema by Xiang Li, designed for X+Living, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
About Fab Cinema
Fab is a cinema interior located in Xi'an, China, covering a floor area of 1150 square meters. The design moves a film shooting scene into the main hall, so visitors become both an audience in reality and an imagined participant in a movie production. Custom furniture supports the theme, including a bathtub sofa, director style rest seats and a ticket counter shaped like a set box. A lounge bar and entertainment features such as a claw machine are combined with four viewing halls. Acoustic requirements and seating comfort were considered throughout.
About Xiang Li
Li Xiang, who founded X+Living Architecture and Interior Design in 2011, has created representative and outstanding design works across diverse business formats such as commercial real estate, culture, retail, family entertainment and hospitality. She leverages her distinctive insights into art and culture to construct commercial spaces teeming with emotional tension, crafting sensory escape points for the general public and infusing the brands she serves with design creativity that confers a competitive edge.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiang Li a winner of 10 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2020 - 2021 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/111752
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111752
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111752
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/229886
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://xxxxxx.design/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Fab Cinema
- Function
- Cinema
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- X+Living
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiang Li
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111752
Credits
- Team
- Li Xiang, Ren Lijiao and Wu Feng
- Image Credits
- Photographer Shao Feng, FAB Cinema, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design of the theater is different from traditional theaters. The project is not only rendering the film sense with different forms, but also giving the audiences dual identities, both an audience in the reality and a participant of the movie-shooting in the imagination. They are connected and laid down to enter the film world step by step. And instead of waiting boringly, they will enter an active participation sparticipation state through the mobilization of the atmosphere.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for the project comes from the movie itself. We moved the shooting scene of film production to the main hall of the theater. We hope that the audience will be immediately impressed by the dramatic scene the moment they enter the theater. At the same time, through the integration of different entertainment facilities, the interaction between the audience and the cinema is not limited to watching the movie itself, which increases the possiblity of their consumption.
- Research
- Traditional theaters pay more attention on panoramic sound effects and the viewing experience on the screen while they lack creativity. The single business model of selling tickets and snacks, it weakens the experience and expectations that the venue can give the audienceThrough the design of this project, we have found a possibility that may be able to answer the problem of the future development of the theater.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge is how to break the trditional pattern. It is easily to be misunderstood that the design ignores functions while completing the aesthetics, but in fact, all the specific requirements of the acoustics environment and the comfort of the audience are all under our consideration at the beginning. We believe that the cinema should undergo a transformation of spatial attributes. It should meet the increasingly vigorous social needs of young people. Simply relying on the sale of movie tickets cannot allow it to maximize the value of a commercial space. So we broke through this situation and completed this design.
- Realization and Technology
- Through some interesting customized furniture, we have taken the theme of the entire space to the extreme. Bathtub sofa, director's rest seat, as well as the ticket counter that imitates the set box, etc, all satisfy the function while cooperating with the creation of the theme, allowing consumers to experience the charm of the movie in an immersive atmosphere.
- Operation and Interaction
- According to the original plane, we can only build four relatively square video halls. Since this space pattern is difficult to provide rich viewing, instead of focusing on decoration, we integrated the space with other formats with similar entertainment attributes to build an avant-garde new cinema space. We moved the lounge bar into the theater space. It is not only an independently operable space, but also symbiotic and mutually beneficial with the cinema. The experiential claw machine and other entertainments also stimulates consumers to extend their stay in the theater, maximizes the value of the space.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in January 2020 in Xi'an, China.
- Specifications
- The floor area of this project is 1150 sqm.
- Keywords
- Li Xiang, retail, cinema, interior design, xliving, China
