Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Goes to Village Hall Public Multifunctional Building by Youpei Hu
Youpei Hu recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Village Hall Public Multifunctional Building by Youpei Hu, designed for Studio Hu, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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 Village Hall Public Multifunctional Building
The building intentionally avoids the vernacular architectural style, and applies modern materials and structure. A big floating roof unifies the formal and informal spaces in a simple way, like a giant open umbrella. In order to achieve the floating and light feeling, the big steel roof not only needs to overcome the large cantilevers and spans, but also needs to keep member as slender as possible. With several structural innovations, a hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers are formed.
About Youpei Hu
作为一名建筑师，我积极回应人类对可持续发展的需求，对资源、文化、城市、住宅、商业和市场等要素进行前瞻性分析。我用智慧和责任感，展现设计的魅力。每一次建筑实践都是一个探索事物本质的机会，从对自身和环境的沉思开始，不断探索整合地形、文化、功能等元素的方法，直到空间和形式以结构化的方式呈现，实现环境、社会、文化和经济效益的最大附加值。这就是不懈追求的目标。
Award Record
Youpei Hu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/163514
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163514
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163514
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/357729
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Village Hall Public Multifunctional Building
- Function
- Public Multifunctional Building
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Studio Hu
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Youpei Hu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #163514
Credits
- Team
- Youpei Hu;Lei Shen;Qi Wang;Shufan Wu;Yuanyuan Rui
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The building intentionally avoids the vernacular architectural style, and applies modern materials and structure. A big floating roof unifies the formal and informal spaces in a simple way, like a giant open umbrella. In order to achieve the floating and light feeling, the big steel roof not only needs to overcome the large cantilevers and spans, but also needs to keep member as slender as possible. With several structural innovations, a hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers are formed.
- Inspiration
- In traditional Chinese housing, the main hall called ‘Ting Tang’ is the most important family space for public activities. It usually has a formal architectural gesture, with tall, dark and semi open space. Inspired by this, the village center is considered as the ‘main hall’ for the whole village. Besides a multifunction hall for formal public activities, the building also provides lots of open spaces to encourage social interaction between villagers and tourists.
- Research
- Based on the Grasshopper plugin extension tool on the Rhino platform, Karamba3D force analysis and form finding technology were used to explore the tools and paths suitable for architects to carry out structural form design in the scheme stage, and successfully completed the structural form design of asymmetric complex roof shapes.
- Challenge
- In order to realise the sense of floating of the big black roof, the building is structurally innovative. The roof, as an overall stress system, not only has to overcome the difficulties of large overhangs and spans, but also has to make each rod as slim as possible to maximise the sense of lightness and composition of the rod structure.
- Realization and Technology
- Weathering steel plate Steel Concrete A hybrid structure mimics umbrella cantilevers
- Operation and Interaction
- This is a public event centre building, capable of meeting the daily needs of meetings, exhibitions, receptions and other meeting, exhibition, reception and other daily needs.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2021 in China and finished in 2023 in China, and the project address is Xiangtang Village, Pukou District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
- Specifications
- The building area is 1370 square metres
- Keywords
- Multi functional, rural social center, flexible space, cantilevered roof, structural innovation
