Nippon Paint, recently hosted a three-day Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) 2016 Regional Learning Program and the Platinum Award Competition in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), which serves as the grand finale where the winners of each the 15 participating country compete for the regional Platinum award.
The event was attended by about 300 design students and leading industry professionals from across Asia.
The AYDA Regional Learning Program also provides various platforms for all participating winners such as coaching sessions, study tours as well as sharing sessions with some of Asia’s leading design practitioners and architects.
Sri Lanka participated at AYDA 2016, for the first time, due to the initiative taken by Nippon Paint Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
The Sri Lankan phase of AYDA 2016 commenced on June 13 last year and the competition took place under the supervision of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA).
Two Gold winners from Sri Lanka – one from the Architecture discipline and one from Interior-Designing discipline, were selected to participate.
Twenty-three year old Malaysian, Chai Min Li, was crowned the Platinum Winner for the Interior Design Category of the regional instalment of AYDA 2016.
The Platinum Winner of the Architecture Category was twenty-five year old, Ueda Mitsumori of Japan.
Chandima Gawarammana of the University of Moratuwa and Pratheepan Kalaieesan of the City School of Architecture (CSA) from Sri Lanka nevertheless delivered strong concepts at AYDA.
The design statement of Gawarammana from the Faculty of architecture of University of Moratuwa was on an interior of an urban house in Colombo for a wife-and-husband, an artist and a wildlife photographer respectively.
In the case of Kalaieesan of the City School of Architecture (CSA), it was a design of a water purification plant inspired by the filtration and cleansing characteristics of Sri Lankan wetland.