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Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Dragon Bay Exhibition Center by Qidi Design Group

Qidi Design Group recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category for Dragon Bay Exhibition Center by Qidi Design Group. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 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 scored 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 Dragon Bay Exhibition Center

The Dragon Bay seeks the harmony between architecture and site. The principle is to focus on the potential of site transformation, seek the integration of artificial and natural transition. Pure and concise landscape techniques and the minimalism strategy, the perfect integration of nature. The creative of seven themes, including Initiatory journey, forest in the shuttle, canyon within exploration, green walk, mystery valley, star river, and play in the lost land. Respect the topography and rational use, collect community rainwater, build a community sponge city system.

About Qidi Design Group

QIDI Design is an international brand company focusing on landscape planing design and research. Founded in 2010 and has now established offices in Hangzhou, Xiamen and Wuhan. Its business scope covers high-quality residential,commercial,cultural tourism industries.The professional elite team of more than 260 people insists on continuous innovation, exploring the high added value of the project, and providing customers with full solutions across landscape fields. It is an innovative and dynamic design company.

Award Record

With this recognition, Qidi Design Group is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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. The competition 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. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture

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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Dragon Bay Exhibition Center
Function
Exhibition Center
Category
Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture
Colors
Cornflower Blue, Steel Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Dark Slate Gray and Black
Images
5

The Recognition

Laureate
Qidi Design Group
Country
China
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#133944

Credits

Team
Fengbin Guo, Guangjian Dai, Yadong Tian, Yujie Yin, Aizuan Zheng, Menghui Li, Ying Luo, Yihan Yan, Yu Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yumao Li and Jingyi Li and others
Image Credits
Image #1, ShanXi Architectural Photography Studio,2021 Image #2, ShanXi Architectural Photography Studio,2021 Image #3, ShanXi Architectural Photography Studio,2021 Image #4, ShanXi Architectural Photography Studio,2021 Image #5, ShanXi Architectural Photography Studio,2021

Design Details

Unique Properties
The purpose of project is to explore the boundary between human and nature, lighten the sense of alienation .Meanwhile, communal space experience is heighten, while a deeper experience space is created . Pure,concise and the Minimalism of the art strategy, the perfect integration into nature. The project creates seven highlights of themes, including entry, forest in the shuttle, canyon within exploration, green walk, mystery valley , star river in the spark, and water county in meditation .
Inspiration
The architectural form takes the diamond cutting shape to build the architecture into a contemporary experiential art space. In the meanwhile, the landscape strategy is designed to carried out by using a unified landscape language. Deconstruct and reconstruct, to seek the harmony balance relationship between architecture and site, and construct artistic living scene at the boundary of architecture and nature. The design principle is to focus on the potential of site transformation.
Research
Sandbox simulates the topography of the site, considers the future use of the site, and repeatedly deduces and studies the spatial scale and natural perception of the site. Simultaneously, the change of light and shadow is simulated artificially, and the panoramic projection product of the building in the waterscape is tested repeatedly, so as to reduce the disturbance to nature as much as possible and realize mutually beneficial integration.
Challenge
Considering the future potential and display properties of the site, the design is under several deduction recording to the site repeatedly. Through the investigate if the spatial scale and natural feeling of each place, so as to minimize artificial disturbance to nature and achieve mutual benefit. Although restricted by municipal planning, the height and slope of the site, moving lines and paths have been deduced and adjusted several times, so as a result to finalize the community to stimulate the vision of community life in the future.
Realization and Technology
Respect the height difference of the terrain and make rational use of it, collect the community Rain Water, and create a sponge city system of the community, so that a large area of trees and plants in the project can be well preserved. Skillfully use the shape slope of the central building to collect the mutual infiltration and recycling of natural Rain Water and artificial waterscape, resulting in the sustainability of self-iteration, and realize the illusion that the architectural hologram is mapped on the water surface visually.
Operation and Interaction
Through the immersive experience of multi-dimensional terrain height difference, landscape design blurs the boundary between natural and artificial, uses different design techniques to realize the space-time transformation, and shows the interweaving of art and humanities.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in January 2021 in Zengcheng,Guangzhou and finished in June 2021.
Specifications
The landscape area is 11,823 square meters.
Keywords
Garden design, Sculpture, Nature, Modern, Visiting experience, Transparency, Landscape, Light, Shadow

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