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Awakening Dental Clinic by Lieh-Wei Liu Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design

Lieh-Wei Liu honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Awakening Dental Clinic by Lieh-Wei Liu, designed for Chang Gu Interior Design Center, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.

What the Bronze A' Design Award Means

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 Awakening Dental Clinic

Awakening is a dental clinic in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The interior covers three floors and includes reception, rest and consulting areas, treatment rooms, a sterilization room and an office area. Metal, stone, wood and a large number of indoor plants form the main materials. Wide marble sections and rough rock surfaces contrast with warm wood, recalling the slow growth of early plant life on Earth. Patient and staff routes are separated to protect privacy and reduce cross infection. The design replaces the cold white medical space with a calm natural environment.

About Lieh-Wei Liu

Medical institution opening transfer All-round integration planning assistance Interior design. Image advertising Websiteconstruction. Knowledge platform. Years of in-depth understanding of the key requirements for the opening of medical institutions, gathering precise vision, accumulating rich experience, focusing on all-round planning and integrated design thinking such as clinic opening, transfer, modification, marketing, etc. A medical professional design company with clinic space design, engineering implementation, advertising marketing and online information application, one-stop integrated planning, and practical capabilities.

Award Record

This recognition makes Lieh-Wei Liu a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2021 - 2022 to 2022 - 2023 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Awakening Dental Clinic
Function
Dental Clinic
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray and Light Gray
Images
5
Client
Chang Gu Interior Design Center

The Recognition

Laureate
Lieh-Wei Liu
Country
Taiwan (China)
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2022 - 2023
Design ID
#145511

Credits

Team
LIU LIEH-WEI, LIN YI-CHIA and LIOU YEU-YANN
Image Credits
Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Rhythm, 2018.; Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Life, 2018.; Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Silence, 2018.; Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, Healing, 2018.; Photographer Liang Yen Hsiung, TGrowth, 2018.

Design Details

Unique Properties
Metal, stone, wood and a large number of indoor plants are used as the basic materials of landscaping to shape. The large-section marble and irregular rough rock surface are the main focus of the space of the whole area to symbolize that the Creator has exerted the magnificent power to create space since ancient times. The use of a large number of green plants and hard mottled boulders. The base of the warm and gentle texture of wood is a metaphor for the progress of time and the circle of life.
Inspiration
3.4 billion years ago. This first green plant to appear on earth fell into the methane-full ocean and kept reproducing. The atmosphere slowly formed on the ground. Over the next billions of years, fungus, algae, ferns, Lycopodiopsida and Equisetum bogotense. The plants that reproduced through spores were as tall as modern trees. Soon, forests of seed plants occupied and dominated the entire earth, providing the necessary growing conditions and protection for the planet. All from that first Cyanobacteria.
Research
This project attempts to use the space to express a flexible appeal. As if writing the softest haiku despite strong rational repression, it neither adheres to the formal aesthetics of architecture nor overly relies on decorative techniques. The project uses spatial vocabulary to encourage the owner accept the theme and metaphors like those in stories, thus paving a way for a future full of possibilities for medical spaces and creating a medical experience completely unlike those of the past.
Challenge
Currently, the pandemic is a global issue and infection control has become a primary design point for medical spaces. We incorporated the patients consultation flow and the medical personnels work flow into the early stage of the design. We selected the antibacterial strength of various materials to prevent the cross infection of viruses, studied equipment disinfection and the transportation path of infected waste and strictly separated the access space to comply with infection control regulations.
Realization and Technology
Medicine is a part of humanity. The design of a medical space should avoid the old framework and be transformed from a cold white space into one with splendid colors, from an emphasis on practical functions to a diverse cultural space, moving from a field where people can only feel sickness and pain to a positive and optimistic environment. Such a re-envisioning takes imagination and enthusiasm, but also the ability to integrate all the advanced equipment rationally and professionally.
Operation and Interaction
The clinic design must respect the patients medical care procedures and the medical personnels work flow. Regarding patients medical treatment, any overlapping flow with others has to be minimized to respect privacy and reduce cross infection. From entering the clinic to check in, waiting, consultation, seeing a doctor, relief after treatment and medical personnels advice to leaving the clinic, patients will complete all steps of the medical procedure in the most comfortable, independent, and relaxed state.
Project Duration and Location
Design: 2017.10 Construction: 2017.11-2018.10 in Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Specifications
The first floor has a total construction area of 300 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, restreading room, consulting room, gaming room and Dental space. Second floor has a total construction area of 200 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, rest,consulting room, Dental space sterization room and operation room. Third floor has a total construction area of 200 square meters. Has areas for guest reception, rest,consulting room, photo Room, Dental space and office Area.
Keywords
Dental Clinic, Dentisit, Courtyard, Fungus, Algae, Ferns

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