Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake Resort Hotel by Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang and Minxi Cai Receives the Golden A' Design Award in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design

Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang and Minxi Cai recognized for hospitality, recreation, travel and tourism design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design category for Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake Resort Hotel by Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang and Minxi Cai, designed for The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts & Vantree Design. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Golden A' Design Award Explained

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 Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake Resort Hotel

Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake is a resort hotel created within the former Jiangxi Guild Hall, built in the eighteenth century. The protected historical buildings were conserved and adapted for modern hospitality use. Traditional elements were studied and reinterpreted through new compositions, materials and textures. The hotel has a design area of about 16200 square meters and offers 99 guest rooms with bathrooms, bars, a spa, restaurants and conference rooms. A glass staircase with a grid glass ceiling brings daylight into the lobby and links the indoor and outdoor spaces.

Award Record

With this recognition, Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang and Minxi Cai is a winner of 10 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2017 - 2018 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Award

The A' Hospitality Design Award is an international hospitality design competition recognizing good hospitality designs by best hospitality designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to hospitality designers, architects, hospitality brands and hotel chains from all countries. Typical entries include hotels, restaurants, resorts, cafes, bars and cruise ships. The awarded hospitality designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/hospitality

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/152224
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/152224
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!152224
Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/220045
Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.dhawa.com/hotels/dhawa-jinan-daming-lake

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Dhawa Jinan Daming Lake Resort Hotel
Function: Resort Hotel
Category: Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design
Discipline: Service Design
Industry: Food & Hospitality and Sports
Colors: Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dark Slate Blue and Dim Gray
Images: 5
Client: The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts & Vantree Design

The Recognition

Laureate: Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang and Minxi Cai
Country: China
Recognition: Golden A' Design Award
Edition: 2023 - 2024
Design ID: #152224

Credits

Team: Muchuan Xu, Shangzhao Yang, Minxi Cai, Qijun Lu, Zhongning Zhang, Xiaofeng Li, Lingjing He, Guanbao Ye, Junjie Li, Jiajun Yin, Dejun Li and Yuhong Peng and others
Image Credits: Copyrights belong to Vantree Design, 2023.

Design Details

Unique Properties: The unique feature of DHAWA Jinan Daming Lake is that the building was the Jiangxi Guild Hall (Longevity Palace), which was built in the Qianlong era (the middle and late 18th century), involving historical and cultural protection buildings. As the idea of the design, "new knowledge of hometown" extracts the traditional elements and culture through translation, constructs the design formal framework, and endows the original traditional architecture with new composition, material, and texture.
Inspiration: The location of the DHAWA – Baihua pond, with a lot of traditional green brick and black tile quadrangle dwellings (Siheyuan), weeping willows and spring pools, which are the beautiful picture of old Jinan that inspires the design. The designers hope to show the guests what a young Jiangyou businessman saw and heard when he first arrived at the Jiangxi Guild Hall, and to integrate modern hotel functions into the concept of the scene paths and present them in the renovation.
Research: The renovation of DHAWA needs to study the extraction of design elements from history and functions to cope with the modern life, and integrate them into the historic palace. By utilizing environmentally friendly transparent materials for the lobby ceiling to create a saves energy’s space, the project is equipped with floor heating and sewerage recycling system to minimize energy consumption. Therefore, the sustainable hotel presents the urban cultural characteristics and revitalizes its heritage.
Challenge: Due to the unique historical background of the project, it’s necessary to inherit culture, enter into new era, utilizing innovation and integration capabilities to activate building functions. Transforming traditional buildings requires overcoming the difficulties of tracing back to centuries old humanities, reconstructing cultural elements, and sorting out new and old air and water supply and sewerage systems, creating a modern commerce hospitality space and revitalizing new vitality.
Realization and Technology: Relying on the protection and maintenance of historical elements and mutual assistance in modern hotel interior design to developed. The concept of the lobby and lobby bar originates from the love story between Xia Yuhe and the Emperor Qianlong. Extracted the imagery, arranged with glass umbrellas and mirrored lotus leaves. The all-day dining restaurant is inspired by the luggage of the Jiangyou business gang. Integrating local elements, and reinterpret the lively of the traditional Jinan market.
Operation and Interaction: In concrete forest, it is also important hotel buildings to have the ability to address long-term sustainability and retain the existing original texture in urban regeneration projects as such. In the lobby, there is a glass staircase space with grid glass ceiling, which can bring out well with skylight sustainably. It can also connect the indoor and outdoor into a bright space, allowing guests to experience the upcoming classical and modern collision leisure journey in the light and shadow.
Project Duration and Location: In 2015, the project completed the ancient building renovation project, and immediately began the conservation and reconstruction project until the interior design project began in 2020. The interior design was completed in February 2023, and the resort hotel was opened in March 2023.
Specifications: It is the first resort hotel in Shandong that was transformed from traditional northern classical residential buildings, it covers an area of approximately 9800 square meters, with a design area of approximately 16200 square meters and 99 guest rooms with bathrooms, bars, Spa, restaurants and conference rooms. The verandas are connected to each other, with strong privacy.
Keywords: newknowledgeofhometown, culturalheritagerenovation, activationutilization, resort, chineseculture, Vantreedesign