The Asia Young Designer Awards (“AYDA”), organised by Nippon Paint Malaysia Group in partnership with IJM Land Berhad, has announced the two winners of the Asia Young Designer Awards 2019. Following this competition, the Malaysian winners will advance to the regional level of the competition at the Asia Young Designer Summit 2019/20 which will be held in Vietnam from 11 to 14 March 2020.
Elevating the learning experience to the next level, the two regional winners from the summit will have the opportunity to embark on a once-in-a-lifetime 6-week-all-expense paid Design Discovery programme at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Boston, USA. This follows the establishment of the Gennosuke Obata Fellowship at Harvard, an esteemed partnership that provides both parties with the opportunity to exchange cross-cultural ideas and values.
Aimed at nurturing the next batch of design talents, AYDA is a platform that exposes participants to experiences that push them to challenge their design boundaries in the fields of architecture and interior design. Held across 15 geographical regions across Asia, this year’s AYDA saw a total of 1,230 submissions from 45 universities.
The theme for this year’s competition – Forward: A Sustainable Future – encourages the next generations of architects and interior designers to break the boundaries of current design concepts by immersing their creations with functional and social sustainability elements in an effort to connect with the community.
This year, Tien Jun Xiang and Sharifah Binti Mohamad from USCI University and City University Malaysia took home the esteemed title of ‘Gold Winner’ in the Architecture and Interior Design categories respectively, each taking home a cash prize worth RM5,000. Aimed at breaking the boundaries of conventional church designs, Tien’s ’Revival of Hope’ sees the revival of a burnt church, turning it into an ecologically-safe architecture that also reflects the merging of both modern and historical designs.
As for the winner in the Interior Design category, Sharifah’s ‘Ladang’ is envisioned as an urban agriculture organic farm market that aims to address the issue of obesity in Malaysia. Also aimed at encouraging Malaysians to practice healthy lifestyles, ‘Ladang’ is compliant with the Green Building Index (GBI) to ensure that the area is green and includes elements to promote sustainability within the area.
This year’s edition of the Asia Young Designer Awards 2019 Award Ceremony also sees an esteemed panel of industry captains, with the chief judges being Ar. Sarly Adre Sarkum (Architecture Category) and Mr Lai Siew Hong (Interior Design Category).
To find out more about AYDA, the entries and other information, log on to https://www.asiayoungdesignerawards.com/.
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