Press Release
Rock Jewelry Store by Qingfan Zhang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Qingfan Zhang recognized 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Rock Jewelry Store by Qingfan Zhang, designed for Atelier ZZ. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
Regarding Rock Jewelry Store
Rock Jewelry is a jewelry store interior covering 57 square meters. The design is guided by architectural space and material logic. A path leads in from the outside and gradually extends, so visitors experience the natural force of rough stone walls. Horizontal long windows set in wooden grille walls rise and narrow along the route, ending at a treasure room entered through a weathering steel sliding door. Wood veneer laminates form the cabinets to meet fire safety requirements. Perforated aluminum panels and fiber optic lights shape the ceiling.
About Qingfan Zhang
Qingfan Zhang, well-known architect and interior designer, founder of Atelier ZZ. She has won many awards for interior design at home and abroad in recent years. And she is good at using modern concise aesthetic spirit to develop multi-dimensional description of space, and expresses rich and pure design essence by means of restraint and balance, representation and internal contradiction and unity. She likes to use design vocabulary to deconstruct the spatial connotation, and persists in deducing the design to the extreme, creating wonderful design works repeatedly.
Award Record
With this recognition, Qingfan Zhang is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2019 - 2020 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
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/98375
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/98375
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!98375
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/224830
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Rock Jewelry Store
- Function
- Store
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Saddle Brown, Dark Olive Green and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Atelier ZZ
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Qingfan Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #98375
Credits
- Team
- Bo Zhang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Haiting Sun, Negotiation Area, 2019.; Photographer Haiting Sun, Negotiation Area 2, 2019.; Photographer Haiting Sun, Corridor, 2019.; Photographer Haiting Sun, Corridor 2, 2019.; Photographer Haiting Sun, Display Area, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In this case, the treasure trove of private negotiation and jewelry is at the heart of space and concept. Corresponding to the treasure house, designers designed a path that entered from the outside and slowly extended. The guests who walked in will experience the natural power of the rock stone walls, and circumnavigate the boulders and visit the horizontal long window display cabinets in the wooden grille walls.
- Inspiration
- Gemstones are naturally mined and very valuable. In the process of human exploration and utilization of nature, there are hardships, accidents, and opportunities everywhere. There are two design concepts, one based on business strategy and the other based on architectural space and material logic. Designers' focus is on how to make decorative interiors the language of architectural spaces and materials from an architect's perspective.
- Research
- Under the influence of large industry, modern mining is not the concept of human mining in the past. Generally, the whole mining, cutting and polishing the smooth surface in the factory, has lost the initial rough trace and impression when people contact with nature. Designers hope to restore this rough and original feeling in the store space.
- Challenge
- Due to the uneven thickness of the original customized stone, there is a great risk for the bearing of the shopping mall floor. After some discussion, the designers learned that there is another method, which can cut many knives intensively behind it, and then knock off the pieces on the back that are cut into the grate shape to reduce the thickness.
- Realization and Technology
- Due to the fire protection requirements of the mall, designers use wood veneer laminates to make cabinets. The ceiling uses perforated aluminum panels to solve the problem of air conditioning return air. The ceiling is shaped by splicing, and the fiber optic lights are used at the holes, and the stars are dotted to set off the stone wall effect.
- Operation and Interaction
- In order to meet the needs of external guests, the stone house opened two gaps to the entrance and two cracks on the wall. At night, the outside lights dimmed, and the slits cut out sharp light.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2019 in Beijing and finished in July 2019 in Beijing.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 57 square meters. The long windows gradually climb and narrow. The guest finally bypassed the sharp corner of the stone house, walked through the tea room, opened the weathering steel sliding door, entered the treasure house and watched the jewelry.
- Keywords
- Interior, Commercial, Jewelry Store, Rock, Modern, Elegant, Simple, Stable, Rough, Original
