Cultural Heritage

Discover 56 award-winning designs tagged Cultural Heritage on A Design Magazine.

Brand: William Hailiang Chen Design Type: Fireplace for Dong Ethnicity Category: Cultural Heritage

Moonlight Huotang

As the first commission project of Huotang series for the Dong ethnicity in Guangnan county, Guangxi of China, Moonlight Huotang is particularly for the group of villagers who carry on the Pipa music culture. The unique convex shape of the ceiling enhances the sense of gathering in response to a better acoustic environment while the entry chamber provides a multifunction space as a changing room, food preparation room and confession room. It is part of a culture-led rural regeneration which intends to revive the economy of a county whose young generations have moved to larger urban areas.

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Brand: Scene Plus Design Type: CBT Development Category: Cultural Heritage

The Pilgrimage

Lang Song minor seminary, where preserves the history of forming the Vietnamese national script, with outstanding architecture and landscape on rice fields are the inspiration for a community based tourism development. The idea of preserving and promoting heritage value in a new age is expressed through urban planning and design around a square, recreating the connection with the river. Pilgrimage to Lang Song is a journey to find the origin of modern script. By the functional spaces and light, the design aims to give visitors a sense of sacred land converging the cultural essence of the area.

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Brand: Linfeng Zhang Design Type: Interactive Projection Category: Cultural Heritage

Experience Design of Chime

Experience Design of Chime is an interactive projection installation for museum exhibitions. The installation combines projection technology with the chime, a traditional Chinese musical instrument, so visitors can strike the chime and explore cultural knowledge at the same time. Flashing images can be selected, and a halo on the chime guides visitors through a melody. Menu icons lead to further interfaces, such as a history section where flags and characters reveal text. The hardware includes projectors, radars, computers and speakers. The projection measures 90 by 258 centimeters.

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Brand: Balarinji Design Type: Art Installation Category: Cultural Heritage

Burwood Brickworks Australian Aboriginal

Balarinji was engaged by Frasers Property Australia to design public art installations for Burwood Brickworks in Victoria, Australia, the world’s most sustainable shopping centre. Balarinji worked with local Wurundjeri, Dja Dja wurrung and Njuari illum wurrung artist, Mandy Nicholson to develop the artwork concept that was deeply embedded to Place and reflected the Wurundjeri culture. The installations included a ceiling mural and outer facade murals.

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Brand: BAIDU MEUX Design Type: Knowledge Platform Category: Cultural Heritage

Intangible Heritage

Intangible Heritage is a bilingual digital knowledge platform dedicated to the intangible cultural heritage of China. The platform records and shares cultural content through pictures, videos and audio recordings. The first section presents subjects such as handicrafts, opera, shadow puppetry and martial arts in the form of a scroll. Further sections give detailed entries that users open through content cards. Traditional Chinese elements are combined with a modern visual language. The platform is adapted for computers and for mobile devices.

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Brand: Taiwan Power Company Design Type: Cultural Heritage Category: Cultural Heritage

Light Up 13 Layer Remains

Light Up 13 Layer Remains is a public art lighting project for a former copper refinery in northern Taiwan. The mining site closed in 1973, and its basic structure was preserved. A color temperature of 2100K was chosen to suit the outer crust of the structure. Amber light inside recalls the fire used during refining. Luminance rises with each level, from 1 nit at the base to 6 nits at the upper levels, so the layers are clearly read. Nearby vegetation is lit at 3000K. In total, 365 luminaires in 15 angles and wattages were installed.

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Brand: Mohamad ali Vadood Design Type: Wooden Sculpture Category: Cultural Heritage

The Bird from Paradise

The Bird from Paradise is a wooden sculpture shaped as a bird. The sculpture brings together seven traditional Iranian arts, including Muqarnas, marquetry, wood carving and wood turning. A new method called Leveling Muqarnas was developed for the work, placing carved layers of different thickness instead of small repeated pieces. The lower body uses the new method, while the crown follows the traditional one. The natural colors of jujube, boxwood, rosewood and other woods are left unpainted. The eyes are made from a single seashell from the Persian Gulf.

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Brand: Aleksandra Toborowicz Design Type: District Identity and Mural Category: Cultural Heritage

Radiomural

Radiomural is a mural created for the Langwasser district in Nuremberg. The design reproduces the tuning scale of a Grundig radio of the 1970s and 1980s, recalling the radios once produced in the district. The painted wall is 25 meters long and 2.5 meters high. Black and white paint is combined with photoluminescent spray, and stencils are used for the letters. At night the letters glow, so the mural resembles a radio that is switched on. The place names on the scale mark favorite local places chosen by residents and their countries of origin.

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