Press Release
Mastech Dongguan Office by Li-Yu Cheng Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Li-Yu Cheng acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Mastech Dongguan Office by Li-Yu Cheng, designed for Studio X4, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
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 Mastech Dongguan Office
To consider high density of users, multiple business relations, and unknown meeting typologies, this workplace aims to be open-plan and non-standard paradigm, to support any type of group talks. At the 1st floor, the reception area is compartmentalized by flooring plans. Each area faces to different orientation, bringing a little contrast, but maintaining more privacy during business talks. On 4th floor, considerable office desks are installed in the core area, surrounded by a loop of artificial turf running track, connecting every division and uniting working forces among peers.
About Li-Yu Cheng
The architect, Li-Yu Cheng, is a lecturer of Interior Design Department in Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan. To fulfill ambitions toward modernist architectures and contemporary spatial design, in 2010, Li-Yu Cheng founded StudioX4 at a multi-cultural city, Taipei, where the teams dedicating to urban languages and interdisciplinary studies toward both exterior and interior spatial design.
Award Record
This recognition makes Li-Yu Cheng 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/88150
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/88150
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!88150
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/253062
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.studiox4.com/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Mastech Dongguan Office
- Function
- Office
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Silver and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Studio X4
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Li-Yu Cheng
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #88150
Credits
- Team
- Yu-Chen Chen
- Image Credits
- Photographer KU PHOTOGRAPHY, MASTECH Dongguan, 2018.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- All kinds of meetings and conferences take place here. The formal conference room is thus divided into different kinds of meeting places, so that discussion would take place around every corner. Clients and employees could talk to each other while walking or exercising in the whole area with ease. This project intends to combine leisure activity, exercising and work, finally making formal office a playground for everyone.
- Inspiration
- Mastech is one of the world’s largest suppliers of electronic measuring instruments. This project, in their franchise office situated in Dongguan city, widely adopts solid industrial loft style materials: steel, glass and marble, to make the corporate image of both profession and precision.
- Research
- In this project we mainly focus on minimal amount of materials like steel, glass and artificial turf. The steel is used in the structure of the mezzanine, its neat straight line makes the corporate image of profession and precision. The curved glass is used to separate the meeting room from workplace but also maintaining transparency of the space. The artificial turf forms the running track and creates a relaxing sense while working hard in the same time.
- Challenge
- Attempt to combine accuracy, precision, reliability and relaxed sense in the same time.
- Realization and Technology
- This project widely adopts solid industrial loft style materials: steel, glass and marble, to make the corporate image of both profession and precision.
- Operation and Interaction
- This franchise office aims to combine leisure activity, exercising and work, finally making formal office a playground for everyone.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2017 and finished in April 2019 The project is located in Dongguan city, Guangdong Province, China.
- Specifications
- Construction area : 2255 square meters
- Keywords
- office, workspace, playground, running track, workout
