Call for Submissions / A’ Design Award & Competition 2021

A’Design Award and Competitions’

The A’ Design Awards & Competition 2021-2022 is currently open for submissions! Until September 30, participants can submit their designs for regular submissions. Winners will be announced on May 1st, 2022, and we will make sure to share our favorites on ArchEyes.

The A’ Design Award & Competition has a philanthropic goal to advance society by pushing the frontiers of science, design, creativity, and technology forward by creating incentives for innovators to come up with better ideas. Besides, the award has immense benefits for participants in terms of fame, prestige, recognition, credibility, publicity and international awareness. Upon entering the competition, designers receive a preliminary evaluation of their work, letting them know how the design will rank.

All entries are peer-reviewed and juried by an international panel of academics, design professionals, and press members. There are over a hundred categories to choose from, including specialized design awards such as the Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award, Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award, Good Service Design Award, or the Good Fashion Design Award among other categories

On today´s article, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite designs from the previous year’s competition to help kick-start your submission!

The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Renovation by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara

Designers: Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara
Winner Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2020 – 2021
Inspiration: As a show of respect to the abundant natural surroundings, rock and wood take center stage in this sacred space imbued with a traditional Japanese aesthetic. we utilized as much of the existing framework as possible while also incorporating elements of traditional shrine and temple architecture, adding a wooden ceiling lattice interwoven with indirect lighting that evokes sunlight pouring through the branches of trees and highlights the beauty of the shadows and gradations that are created as light falls through the multi-layered lattice.

House in Repino Residential by Shamsudin Kerimov

Designers: Shamsudin Kerimov and Ekaterina Kudinova
Winner Category: Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The main source of inspiration was the unique natural environment of the region. For the project, the natural materials were chosen: stone characteristic to the local environment, wood, and metal. All of them will change in time for architecture to fuse with the natural environment.

Wandering in the Woods Kindergarten by L and M Design Lab

Designers: Wandering in the Woods
Winner Category: Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The original structure resembled a liner with limited space and poor sunlight. Out of considerations of structural stability and costs, the design keeps the entire structure and create an atrium running vertically through three stories. The design guarantees that all classrooms receive natural light from both sides. Columns become trees and beams become bridges to form abundant spatial effects. Taking advantage of the original structure, the atrium transforms the “liner” into a “woodland.”;

Be Water Lamp by Fernando Correa

Designer: Fernando Correa
Winner Category: Lighting Products and Lighting Projects Design Category, 2020 – 2021
Inspiration: The design is inspired by the continuous, soothing and hypnotic effect the sunlight reflected on the moving surface of water makes against vertical walls, under bridges and boats’ hulls. Other chromatic possible variants emitted as the lamp’s water original effect are: Fire with the ardour of its flames, Air represented by the phenomenon of the northern lights (aurora borealis) and finally Earth inspired by lavender fields in Provence transforming and characterizing the surrounding environment.

Samaranch Memorial Museum by Archiland

Circular Courtyard in the Olympic Games Headquarters

Designer: Archiland, HAO design（New York）, COWI, Kragh & Berglund and TADI
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Gold A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
Inspiration: The original intention is to build a green building that commemorates Mr. Samaranch and inherits the Olympic spirit. It was transformed through the five Olympic rings: the main building presents two intersecting circles, and the other three circles transform into a sunken courtyard. The “8” shape commemorates the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The “S” shape stands for “Samaranch”; the third is that the shape symbolizes Infinity and eternity.

Piks Construction Toy by Oppi

Designers: Hansel Schloupt (CEO & Product designer), Bastien Schloupt (COO), Dr. M.B. (Child Psychiatrist specialized in ADHD) and Chrystelle Payet (Child Teacher & Educational Consultant Specialist)
Winner Category: Toy, Games and Hobby Products Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: Piks has been designed thanks of two sources of inspiration: the collaboration with educational specialists and the need to provide kids new open-ended way to play. Because of our commitment to offer a toy that develops concentration skills, we decided to seek inspiration from the field of education, more precisely from kids’ concentration disorders ADHD. By making design research – consulting child psychiatrists or occupational therapists – we were able to identity a list of the most important children’s cognitive needs to increase.

Interpretation Centre of Romanesque Exhibition Centre by spaceworkers

Designers: Henrique Marques, Rui Dinis, Rui Rodrigues, Rui Miguel, Sérgio Rocha
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Gold A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
Inspiration: Based on the concepts of Romanesque architecture in Portugal, the building aims to be a transitional element between the present and the distant past. In a simple way, the volumetric proposed contains the principals of unity within diversity, appearing under the form of several volumes with different heights and dimensions, demonstrating the diversity that Romanesque buildings have left us. Therefore, each volume ceilings reinterprets one of the roof types used in Romanesque architecture.

Evd Office by Yang Bing and Hao Liyun

Designers: Yang Bing, Hao Liyun
Winner Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: The designers created a U-shaped area that combines with one long side and the five large windows, allowing natural light to filter in and diffuse freely. The entrance protrudes towards the foyer, due to the consideration of fire control regulations. Its position and width for evacuation bring new opportunities for organizing spatial pattern and form. The overall spatial design starts here.

House for Parents Residence by Masakatsu Matsuyama

Designer: Masakatsu Matsuyama
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Silver A’ Architecture, Building, and Structure Design Award Winner
Inspiration: As a traditional daily custom in this island, people gather and stay under the shadow of large trees. We aimed to create architecture that celebrates the culture of the region and leads to re-emerge the spirit of traditional life on the island. The space under the large roof, which is supported by thin steel columns, provides a shady and cool, comfortable interior that suite the severe climate on the southern island.

Newme Medical Beauty Hospital by Jiang and Associates Creative Design

Designer: Jiang and Associates Creative Design
Winner Category: Interior Space and Exhibition Design Category, 2020 – 2021.
Inspiration: On this project, the inspiration should come from user needs, not metaphysical emotional sustenance. After researching the market, we found that the proportion of men and women in the medical beauty market will become more evenly amount in the future, so the inspiration was the gender neutral sensory experience. The arch is an excellent geometric shape that combines strength and softness. The gender orientation is entirely determined by the details and materials used in the arch. Thus the inspiration from the analysis led to the completion of the project.

Pluto Task Lamp by Heitor Lobo Campos

Designer: Heitor Lobo Campos
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Gold A’ Lighting Products and Lighting Projects Design Award Winner
Inspiration: Pluto was inspired by telescopes, which use tripods and dynamic but stable forms. But instead, I sought to design a light that focuses on the earth instead of the stars.

Sada Bike Hubless Foldable Bike by Gianluca Sada

Designers: Gianluca Sada and Luca Scudieri
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Platinum A’ Vehicle, Mobility, and Transportation Design Award Winner
Inspiration: Demanding mobility-related service has its consequences on society: street congestion of metropolitan hubs is the everyday challenge commuters have to face, and it is a source and stress and delays. «You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.» R.Buckminster Fuller Promoting and enabling virtuous behaviors for smart mobility, intermodality, sustainability for the environment are the values driving Sada Bike

Riposo Coffee Set by Mikhail Chistiakov

Designer: Mikhail Chistiakov
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Silver A’ Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware, and Cookware Design Award Winner
Inspiration: The concept is based on an approach to classical subjects from functionalism and strict geometry. This project was inspired by the manifestos of the Russian avant-garde, the German Bauhaus, and constructivism: what is functional and convenient is also beautiful.

Hera Sailing Yacht by Nicola Mondini

Designer: Nicola Mondini
Winner Category: 2019 – 2020, Bronze A’ Yacht and Marine Vessels
Design Award Winner
Inspiration: Hera is a concept sailing yacht inspired by J-Class vessels, the single-masted racing sailboats built in the 1930s to compete in America’s Cup. This concept is a futuristic interpretation that celebrates these peak racers through innovative materials and innovative shapes.

Registration to A’ Design Award & Competition 2021-2022 is open now.
The deadline for regular submissions is September 30, 2021. Results will be announced to the public on May 1st, 2022.

Call for Submissions / A’ Design Award & Competition 2021 – 2022

The Westin Miyako Kyoto Chapel Renovation by Takenori Katori and Fumi Habara

House in Repino Residential by Shamsudin Kerimov