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Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Blue Bay Residential Townhouse by Likun Shen
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Likun Shen for architecture, building and structure design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Blue Bay Residential Townhouse by Likun Shen, designed for Gad. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
More About Blue Bay Residential Townhouse
Blue Bay Residential is a housing complex located in Lingshui, Hainan. The project covers a land area of 52,000 square meters, with a construction area of 25,000 square meters and 122 households. The layout follows the local tradition of scattered and porous dwellings arranged around courtyards. A space sequence of lobby, courtyard, hall and corridor forms a north-south air passage for natural ventilation. Prefabricated sloped roofs with eaves of 600 and 1800 millimeters provide shading and privacy. Horizontal lines connect the buildings with the surrounding landscape.
About Likun Shen
As one of the partners and design directors of the gad Xiamen branch, as well as a national first class registered architect and a first-line architect, Likun Shen has focused on urban planning and architecture design topics such as urban organic renewal, Chinese architecture construction and featured town (or ideal town) for many years and has made remarkable achievements in the research of the modernity and regionalism of modern residences.
Award Record
With this recognition, Likun Shen 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/131574
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/131574
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!131574
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/317685
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.gad.com.cn/
Media Contact
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Blue Bay Residential Townhouse
- Function
- Townhouse
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Olive Drab, Lavender and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Gad
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Likun Shen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #131574
Credits
- Team
- Shen Likun, Liang Yanwei and Cheng Lingyan
- Image Credits
- gad
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The local hot and rainy climate has formed conventional architectural methods like courtyard, cold alley and deep eave, which inspire the design to break through the blocking up of traditional architectures and to integrate architecture with nature. The overall composition of the building dominated by horizontal lines and strips, is stretchy and stable, forming a romantic rural style, an environmental coincidence and a metaphor with the spacious golf course and the unfolded South China Sea.
- Inspiration
- Derived from blurred boundaries in traditional Hainan residential pattern known as living scattered and porous and adjacent to the yard, the plane organization is combined in the shape of Hui (a Chinese character with an enclosing shape), the living rooms are arranged around the courtyard, and the scattered porous layout is in line with the hot and windy climate. Meanwhile the double first floor concept breaks the spatial certainty between the inside and the outside at different elevations.
- Research
- The conceptual origin and the underlying design logic is drawn from the investigation and study of the local traditional residences: in the macroscopic layout of villages, there are often large-scale squares; in the mesoscopic organization of groups, they are often staggered with each other, leaving out the front and back field space and air channels; in the microscopic architectural distribution, functional blocks are scattered and connected through the corridors.
- Challenge
- Against the regular residential determinant texture and homogenized architectural style promoted by urbanization development, this project responds to nature in a form of continuous and porous space and stretchy and futuristic formal language, so as to create a new living experience that responds to the local climate and traditional living habits, strives to explore a new architectural model at the junction of city and nature, and seeks the possibility of life different from urban experience.
- Realization and Technology
- The tropical monsoon climate and long sunshine duration require better shading and ventilation conditions. In the project, the eaves of the same house are 600mm and the different houses are 1800mm, the prefabricated slope roof system is thus formed not only ensures the shading needs but also the privacy needs between the upper and lower units. A space sequence composed of lobby-courtyard-hall-corridor creates a complete north-south air passage to adjust the overall wind environment.
- Operation and Interaction
- This case tries to combine the living pattern in the traditional folk houses with the modern green architecture design methods, and finally to explore a new dialogue between the city and the countryside in the regional and contemporary context.
- Project Duration and Location
- The design of the project began in September 2020, the construction began in June 2021 in Lingshui, Hainan and is expected to be completed in December 2023.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total land area of 52,000 sqm and a total construction area of 25,000 sqm, with 122 designed households. By the combination strategy of horizontal growth and mutual overlap has cleverly solved the two problems of land capacity and the interface between architecture and nature.
- Keywords
- Overlapping Courtyard, Blurred Boundaries, Inside and Outside, Architecture and Nature, City and Countryside
