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Gad Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Training Base in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Gad for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Training Base by Gad, designed for Zhejiang Province Airport Group, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 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.
About Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Training Base
Zhejiang Jiande Aviation is an aviation training base located in the aviation town of Jiande, China. The campus brings together teaching, catering, office and hotel functions. Three groups of buildings enclose courtyards of different sizes, linked by a raised green mound in the centre. Overhead corridors run through the park and connect the functional areas, giving shelter from sun and rain. Aluminium sheets and elastic coatings form the facades, and permeable concrete paves the outdoor paths. The natural terrain is retained rather than flattened.
About Gad
As an atypical design studio born in the transformation of rapid development of Chinese architecture design revolution, gad now is one of the most influential design companies countrywide. Instead of mass production, gad would rather choose to slow down and search for the existing significance of every space. A group of energetic and thoughtful young people gather together here to give rise to tons of interesting and fresh ideas. Now gad cooperates with insightful proprietors from diverse fields like hotel design, housing design, theater design and so on to boost new ideas for architecture, which at the same time, encourages itself to step into a better design world.
Award Record
With this recognition, Gad is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award
The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture
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/113599
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/113599
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!113599
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/290867
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.gad.com.cn/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zhejiang Jiande Aviation Training Base
- Function
- Training Base
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Steel Blue, Dark Gray and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang Province Airport Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gad
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #113599
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer gad
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in the Aviation Town of Jiande. Zhejiang Airport Group plans to build an aviation teaching-oriented park here, with the functions of teaching, catering, office, hotel and so on. The site shows strong natural properties. Through the organic integration of the building and the natural landform, this campus will be endowed with more natural properties and memories of the site, thereby contributing to the organic symbiosis between building and environment, human and nature.
- Inspiration
- According to the terrain, the three groups of buildings enclose courtyards of different sizes, which are connected by the raised green mound in the middle. Different types of overhead corridors are built at the ground floor of the building, running through the entire park and connecting different functional areas. The upper part of the building has a clear main interface while the ground floor interacts with the external environment, generating fuzziness and showing diversified spatial attributes.
- Research
- It is hot in summer and warm in winter and rainy all year round. The design of overhead corridors is an effective spatial strategy to deal with the local climate. Verandas provide continuous shadows, so that people can avoid sunlight and rain while walking in the park, and enjoy the cool breeze blowing from the green hill. The corridor system conforms to the terrain, with different elevations and space retractions. Combined with the landscape design, green plants and pools are integrated, thus generating various spaces for rest and communication.
- Challenge
- In the face of unconventional site conditions, the site is not flattened to design a conventional and unchallenging campus. An attempt is made to persuade Party A to respect and retain the natural conditions of the site, in order to create a park with a strong sense of place and rich spatial experience that blends architecture with nature. In this process, despite of the relatively large resistance in construction and cost, the owner and the design team still strive to stick to the original intention of the design, so that the original idea can be retained to the greatest extent.
- Realization and Technology
- Aluminum sheets and elastic coatings are adopted as the main materials for the building facade, and the building floor is made of terrazzo, with virtually no non-renewable materials (such as natural stone). Permeable concrete is used for the outdoor landscape road to increase the water seepage and storage function of the ground. The varied terrain makes it possible to design a rainwater garden system in the park. From the perspective of passive energy saving and local climate, the teaching building in the park is designed like a porous container.
- Operation and Interaction
- As the core activity space, the teaching building in the center of the park connects the hotel on one side (which also serves as a temporary dormitory for training students) and the office meeting room on the other side. Public spaces such as the lobby, cafe, lecture hall, exhibition hall, restaurant, gym are connected in series like pearls on the long corridor. When walking in the park, people can walk along the corridor or stroll on the hill, enjoying different views and comfort.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2018 and finished in June 2020 in Zhejiang, China.
- Specifications
- Total floor area 36124.23 square meters Ground floor total area 32798.83 square meters Unground floor total area 3325.4 square meters
- Keywords
- Natural integration, organic symbiosis, clear and fuzzy, porous container, passive energy saving
