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Himalaya Designer Office Workplace by Roy Hu Is Granted the A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Roy Hu honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 16, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Himalaya Designer Office Workplace by Roy Hu, designed for Himalaya Design. The award was conferred within the 2023 - 2024 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.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Himalaya Designer Office Workplace
Himalaya Designer Office is an office interior in Xiamen, China, covering 950 square meters. The design uses a three-way joint motif that extends from the spatial framework to the furniture, lighting and signage. Dark grays and blacks are combined with orange elements. Vertical metal rods support the front desk, which stands as a sculptural focal point at the entrance. Frosted galvanized sheets line the material room, while perforated galvanized steel wave plates separate the public corridor from the open office area. Sloping walls widen the sense of spatial depth.
About Roy Hu
Since the founding of Himalaya Design in 1998, it has always adhered to the awareness of innovation, focused on the field of space design, based on humanities, and achieved a balance between function and vision, richness and restraint, order and change, tradition and contemporary.
Award Record
Roy Hu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/154627
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/154627
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!154627
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/348784
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Himalaya Designer Office Workplace
- Function
- Workplace
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Himalaya Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Roy Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #154627
Credits
- Team
- Host Designer｜Roy Hu and Design Team｜Xiaoling Cheng，Shuyang Tsu，LK Lee，Yujia Zhu，Bare Tsai
- Image Credits
- Photographer Rongkun Chen, 2023; Photographer SEHN-PHOTO, 2023; Photographer Rongkun Chen, 2023 Video Director: SHEN-PHOTO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The design of the office area attempts to deliver the flow in a modern space with diverse materials in a vague atmosphere, meanwhile strengthening the connections in the space in texture contrasts and collisions. Dark tone pervades the space, complemented by unique textures and lighting reminiscent of commercial spaces. This design rebels against the traditional conception of an office that features brightness in broad daylight and simple interiors.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the three-dimensionality of space that coordinates our daily lives, this design concretizes the concept into the structure of the Himalaya Designer Office. Three-way joints as the motif extends to furniture, lighting, and signage, dissolving the linear dimensionality in polyphonic interpretations and thus transforming it into a multi-dimensional information guide, creating a complex chronotope of overlapping time and space.
- Research
- Spatial movements stretch in the extensive use of grays and blacks enriched by orange elements. The unified motif and its thematic application flow consistently through the spatial design, featuring light-hearted interludes to highlight the spatial layers while maintaining the juxtaposing sense of light and dark. Brand-new dialogues await in rich, deep silence, enabling a multidimensional space that nourishes abundant innovative thoughts.
- Challenge
- In modern designs that uphold the principle “Less is More”, elaborate designs seemingly ebb away, yet not at the sacrifice of intricate details and comprehensive effect. In the same vein, this design adheres to that "complexity foregrounds simplicity" by using richly complex materials and techniques to showcase to clients a diverse range of selections in subtle ways. The overall design still maintains a simple appearance, while transcending everyday experiences to explore diverse experiences and innovation by revealing the order underneath complexity.
- Realization and Technology
- Vertical metal rods at the front desk float in an air of lightness, as independent supports for the horizontal structure. The front desk stands alone as an artistic installation and visually connects spatial elements as a focal point at the entrance. The sloping walls intensify people's experience and imagination of spatial dimensions, presenting a one-dimensional space as a two-dimensional aspect without completely separating it. The material room continues the industrial texture with frosted galvanized sheets, featuring tidiness and order.
- Operation and Interaction
- The design department extends the three-dimensionality motif. Office desks are organized interconnectedly yet independently, conveying a sense of order while also exhibiting a flowing and continuous sensation like a murmuring stream. Gadgets for daily uses such as track sockets, mainframe racks, and side cabinets seamlessly integrate into the office desks in a modernist style: zigzag perforated bookshelves play visual rhythms with appropriate contrasting colors.
- Project Duration and Location
- Project Location｜Xiamen, Fujian, China Start Time｜2023.02 Completion Time｜2023.06
- Keywords
- Office, Creative Rationality, Artistic Rigor, Fuzzy Boundaries, Spatial Framework
