Press Release
Crystal Opera House Art Installations by Wei Zhang Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Event and Happening Design
Wei Zhang acknowledged for event and happening design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Event and Happening Design category for Crystal Opera House Art Installations by Wei Zhang. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding Crystal Opera House Art Installations
The Crystal Opera House is the designer's tribute to classical architecture and art. The giant crystal hoisting device is a structural whole, using millions of crystal, re-engraving the visual features of the classical enclosed box with crystal, a very modern material. The device has tried many impossible shapes and arrangements, done a lot of research and development and 3D models, and explored more breakthroughs in the shape and limitations of the crystal suspension device. To convey the strong artistic atmosphere of the traditional classical opera house to the public.
Award Record
This recognition makes Wei Zhang a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2021 - 2022 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Event and Happening Design Award
The A' Event Design Award is an international event design competition recognizing good event designs by leading event designers and organizers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to event designers, corporate event planners, wedding planners and festival organizers from all countries. Typical entries include trade fairs, award ceremonies, festivals, conferences, exhibitions and concerts. The awarded event designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/event
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://desingers.org/140507
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/140507
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!140507
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/303120
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/3wRBh8k
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Crystal Opera House Art Installations
- Function
- Art Installations
- Category
- Event and Happening Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Light Slate Gray, Silver and Black
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Wei Zhang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #140507
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer MOZI VISION; Photographer MOZI VISION Image#4：Photographer MOZI VISION; Photographer MOZI VISION Video：Videographer Genhouse Film
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is an all-crystal giant hanging crystal art installation. In the 1,600-square-meter giant banquet hall, a steel frame TRUSS frame is used to build a hoisting load-bearing structure for suspending millions of K9 crystal particles. Millions of crystal particles are not simply arranged, but use curves and shapes of different lengths to shape layers of "Opera House boxes", creating a giant "Crystal Opera House" in the air.
- Inspiration
- The designer has always had a unique yearning for a classical opera house. The Opera House is a gem of architecture and the highest palace of art. The traditional opera house adopts a horseshoe-shaped enclosure design, which not only effectively utilizes natural sound energy, but also creates an atmosphere for the audience to enjoy traditional opera. In the designer's mind, this horseshoe-shaped box almost represents a traditional opera house, so the "box" design is used as the main visual form.
- Research
- Using a giant crystal installation with breathing lights, it explores how crystal, a granular material, has more room to play. Whether there are more possibilities for the shapes and patterns that the point-like material can form. In addition, crystal strips are easy to knot and entangle. Before the completion of this work, we are not even sure whether a single crystal length of 3500mm can be successfully completed. This should also be an attempt at the structure of a giant crystal installation. For such a large volume of crystal particles and projects, the overall load weight and construction details need to be considered.
- Challenge
- Crystal grains are usually dotted, almost mosaic, but we have developed many unusual shapes. For example, crystals can only be used to make neat arrays, and the shapes are neat. For the sake of drape, crystal pendants are needed to finish. However, the three French crystal gates need to use crystal dot arrays to create European-style complicated decorative lines. We spend a lot of time doing research and development with models. It is also a brand-new attempt to use crystal strips of different lengths to shape the "boxes" of the opera house. The letter logo is made of crystal strips in the prologue hall.
- Realization and Technology
- The giant installation is composed of millions of K9 crystal particles, mainly transparent and custom blue crystal particles and ice blue silk curtains. The specially customized arc-shaped enclosed "box" structure is used to shape the hanging crystal, and the crystal lengths of different lengths and two different colors are customized to create "boxes" with different positions. The longest hanging crystal bar is 3.5 meters and the shortest is 1.5 meters. The crystal size of each crystal bar is a specially calculated match.
- Operation and Interaction
- A special interactive design, three crystal gates are specially designed and customized with crystal at the entrance, which symbolizes that the curtain of the opera is about to open, and the lifting tool is used for partial lifting. The characteristics of crystal are light transmission and refraction. The installation focuses on the design of point lighting, one lamp and one crystal, and the crystal is brightened in a breathing rhythm. On that day, a 12-member mini symphony orchestra was arranged to perform live, with the intention of restoring the atmosphere of the opera house from the auditory perspective.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started planning and design in March 2021, and completed the detailed design and model design in mid-April 2021. After nearly 3 weeks of pre-processing, the construction was completed for two days and one night from May 13th to 15th, 2021. It was exhibited and released for the first time in the Grand Ballroom of Shangri-La Hotel, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
- Specifications
- The total height of the giant device is nearly 4000mm, the length is 36000mm, and the width is 20000mm. The longest single crystal bar is 3500mm, and the shortest is 1500mm. There are about 100,000 crystal bars in total. A single crystal bar has an average of 1 crystal pendant and 30 crystal particles. The interval is about 100mm. Each crystal particle is artificially connected one by one, and the machine cannot be used.
- Keywords
- Art installations, Exhibition, Handicrafts, Public art, Event decoration, Decoration
