Press Release
Shih Han Chen Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Study Reading Environment in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Shih Han Chen for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Study Reading Environment by Shih Han Chen, designed for Thinking Design, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 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.
Regarding Study Reading Environment
Study is an interior design for a six floor reading space in Taiwan, covering 496 square feet. The project applies the idea of home to every level, so each floor offers a different feeling. The first floor holds the main reading area, where a stepped platform suits children. A tall book wall emphasizes the high ceiling. The mezzanine combines reading, meeting and dining functions. The second floor is a study with a book wall, a glass display case and a fireplace. Transparent glass connects the levels, while soft gray blue tones and light wood veneer create a calm atmosphere.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shih Han Chen a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
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/161659
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/161659
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!161659
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/284692
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://reurl.cc/KeMXYj
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Study Reading Environment
- Function
- Reading Environment
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gainsboro, Tan, Silver, Peru and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Thinking Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shih Han Chen
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #161659
Credits
- Team
- CHEN SHIH-HAN and CHIOU YI-JIUN
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Hey!Cheese~
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Because it is a multi-storey business space, I hope that each floor will be injected with different spatial expressions so that consumers can have different feelings when using it. The design is centered on the concept of "home", so that people on different floors can feel the warmth brought by home. Warmth. Different floors also combine different business methods.
- Inspiration
- Use curved extensions to create cabinets and raised floors with different functions. Soft gray blue and light wood veneer lead into an ocean-like reading space.
- Research
- In the face of different space requirements, this time it is not only necessary to take into account the flow of people, the relationship between reading and dining areas, but also across the setting of offices and private residences, and check the functions of each aspect, she said, the comfortable and relaxed atmosphere is the main axis of the relationship between floors, so paying attention to light, ventilation, and leaving white space at the right time has become the key to this case.
- Challenge
- The challenge of this case is how to depict the different spatial representations of each floor, and at the same time tie up the coherence of the vertical floors, so as to give a complete and harmonious situational experience.
- Realization and Technology
- The project is as simple as possible, and expresses a variety of design vocabulary through the repeated application of the same material, which is similar to the role played by gray and blue in this case, whether as the main color or as an accent color, the appearance of gray and blue creates a connection, and then leads to the vertical floor relationship.
- Operation and Interaction
- The main business space is mainly on the first floor and the mezzanine, and transparent glass is used to give people in different spaces the opportunity to connect and interact.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in June 2023 in Taiwan and finished in December 2023 in Taiwan.
- Specifications
- Six floors / 496 square feet
- Keywords
- Interior architects, Bookstore, Kitchen, Bedroom, Children, Study
