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Hill Wind Hotel and Resort by Huafang Wang Receives the Platinum A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Huafang Wang recognized for architecture, building and structure design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Hill Wind Hotel and Resort by Huafang Wang, designed for Storm Architectural Design, has been granted the Platinum A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Platinum A' Design Award Explained
The Platinum A' Design Award is recognized for honoring designs that stand at the forefront of creativity and innovation. It is the highest accolade bestowed by the A' Design Awards, acknowledging works that blend remarkable innovation with impactful societal contributions. These designs not only showcase exceptional artistic and technical proficiency but also highlight their creators' commitment to advancing the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Recipients of this award are celebrated for their role in shaping the aesthetics and trends of our time, contributing significantly to the enhancement of quality of life and promoting sustainable development.
More About Hill Wind Hotel and Resort
Hill Wind is a resort hotel located in Anji County, Huzhou. The external form follows modern architectural thinking, with geometric cloud shapes drawn from the origami concept and extended into irregular volumes. A white membrane material is joined to these forms through structural changes. Inside, a narrow entrance passage creates a deep sense of space, and a continuously flowing ceiling is shaped and stitched by craftsmen. Bamboo and wood from the Anji area are used as building materials. The project covers 3500 square meters and echoes the surrounding natural landscape.
About Huafang Wang
Huafang Wang, Registered Interior Architect, Founder and design director of TRUCONST, Partner of STORM DESIGN, President of Huzhou Youth Designers Federation. The accidental opportunity in 1997 made him set foot in the study of interior design specialty, which attracted him deeply, such as the influence of ergonomics and space on people. After years of professional training in orthodox three-dimensional and interior design, he has set foot in the decoration and design industry, and has continuously expanded his self-value-added. He has continued to study and study design-related courses and travels overseas.
Award Record
With this recognition, Huafang Wang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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. The competition 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. Entries typically include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. Awarded architectural projects are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/architecture
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://desingers.org/92668
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/92668
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!92668
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/259821
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.archistorm.com.cn
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Hill Wind Hotel and Resort
- Function
- Hotel and Resort
- Category
- Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture
- Colors
- Cornflower Blue, Sky Blue, Cadet Blue, Black and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Storm Architectural Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Huafang Wang
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Platinum A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #92668
Credits
- Team
- Weizhong Yue and Shuai Huang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance, 2019.; Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance 2, 2019.; Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance 3, 2019.; Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Public Area, 2019.; Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Public Area 2, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This case is a resort hotel design project, the outline of the external form adopts the thinking mode of modern architecture. The designer extracts the image of geometric clouds from the origami concept and extends the irregular shapes. With the same type of white film as the internationally renowned Burj Al Arab, the two elements are integrated through structural changes, which bring out the best in each other.
- Inspiration
- According to the regional characteristics, the designer combines the local culture and historical context in the process of conception. Under the dominant atmosphere of modernism, the designer uses the language of design to create dialogue with space, and then interprets the visual, tactile and spiritual resonance, reproducing the Anji area humanistic landscape pattern of "The cicada noise highlights the silence of the forest, and birdsong sets off the depth of the mountain".
- Research
- Hill Wind is located in the beautiful mountains and lake light of Anji County, Huzhou City. This ancient Longwang Village with over 200 years of ancient paper-making skills is known as the "Three Clean Places" of clean air, clean water and clean soil. It is a secluded quiet dwelling full of artistic flavor and embracing natural scenery.
- Challenge
- The natural raw materials are warm and soft, without any decoration, and they harmoniously dissolve into the infinite greenness. It not only weakens the huge scale of the architectural framework and adds exquisite texture to the rigid concrete, but also echoes the surrounding natural landscape, making the building and nature more closely through this way. In the designer's opinion, a good life or a good design work must be related to nature, which is also the core of the design of this case.
- Realization and Technology
- The fluctuate continuously ceiling is formed and stitched by craftsmen. In the selection of materials, the bamboo and wood abundant in Anji provide us with advantaged construction materials.
- Operation and Interaction
- Seen from the entrance, the narrow and long passage mysteriously carries a deep sense of space aesthetics. Combining the shape of the nest with the uneven stone, it creates a rough and steady visual effect. The quiet interior and the noisy exterior form a pulling feeling in space, which attracts the past customers.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2017 in Huzhou and finished in April 2019 in Huzhou.
- Specifications
- The project covers a total of 3500 square meters. If the appearance of the building is striking to the visitors at first glance, people will be surprised to find that the building is "flowing" after entering the Hill Wind.
- Keywords
- Architecture, Hotel, Resort, Modern, Natural, Elegant, Cultural, Origami concept, Futuristic
