The winners of the 2023 Young Pin Design Award were officially announced at a grand award ceremony held yesterday (5/21) at Hall 2 of the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. A total of over 5,000 entries from 121 departments representing 55 schools across Taiwan participated in the competition. The work “Unveiling the Forgotten Hill” by Chung Yuan University’s Interior Design Department students Lai Yi-Ping and Wang Zhen, under the guidance of Professor Tian Rong-Yu, explores the unique perspective of integrating the Guanyin Mountain Reservoir Historic Site with the revitalization of the Baocang Rock Art and Cultural Village. Their project was awarded the Best of Young Pin Design Awards in the Spatial Design category, and they received a prize of NT$100,000.
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 jointly supervised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Education, and organized by the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, is the largest-scale design award in Taiwan’s “New Generation Design Exhibition,” a prominent exhibition showcasing the works of design graduates. Each year, outstanding works from various schools are selected for this prestigious award.
This year, the Interior Design Department of Chung Yuan University not only received the highly anticipated ” Best of Young Pin Design Awards,” but also saw the works of Lai Yi-Jun and Ke Kai-Yu, titled “Seaside Encounter” (supervised by Professor Chen Shao-Ping), and Wang Xuan-Ru and Su Jun-Zhang, titled “Plant Light Oasis” (supervised by Professor Shen Guan-Ting), both winning the “𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬.” The latter work also received the Special Award for Water Space Design, attracting significant attention for its outstanding achievements throughout the event.
The award-winning project “Unveiling the Forgotten Hill” in the field of spatial design takes the Guanyin Mountain Reservoir in Taipei City as its design site. Two students, Lai Yi-ping and Wang Zhen, creatively opened up the long-forgotten reservoir in the city using freedom and innovation. They transformed it into a platform for artists to exhibit their works, while also integrating the Treasure Rock Art and Cultural Settlement for the revitalization of historical sites.
