Curators: Fai Au, Sunnie S.Y. Lau, Ying Zhou
Exhibitors: Architecture Land Initiative (ALIN) (Guillaume Othenin-Girard, Kent Mundle); Fai Au, Ying Zhou, Hongshan Guo; BEAU (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken); Building Narrative (Jeffrey Cheng), Kris Proovost; Centre For Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (Weijen Wang, Ziming Su, Tsit Lun Ma, Ching Yau Leung, Kit Sze Yau); Sony Devabaktuni; Daqing Gu, Vito Bertin, Man Han; Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA); Max Hirsh, Dorothy Tang; LAAB; Natasza Minasiewicz; Ronald Lu Partners (RLP); Eric Schuldenfrei, Jay Jordan, Sze Chun Liu, Marc Downie; SOSArchitecture Urban Design Studio (Sunnie S.Y. Lau, Annie Lye); Su Chang Design Research Office (Chang Su, Frankie Au); Transversal Lab (Yvette Kong); Wong and Ouyang Architects (Albert Chan, Brian Lee, Terry Chan, Hilarie Lai, Andy Tsui); Ina Wu; Atelier Global (Frankie Lui, Larry Tsoi, Junqian Wang, Qinling Li, Zhuoyu Zhang); Collective (Betty Ng, Chi Yan Chan, Juan Minguez); Sai Ho Choi; Design PY (Emily Po, Quentin Yiu); Design Trust (Marisa Yiu); Horta FU Yat Him; Xiang Ji; Christian J. Lange, Jason F. Carlow; Oliver Yin Law; New Office Works (Evelyn Ting, Paul Tse); Haotian Zhang
Venue: Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2126
Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive
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Description
There two parts to this project. In the courtyard of the Campo della Tana, an observation deck for the contemporary city follows the know-how of the ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding, an enduring construction method in Hong Kong. Inside the former warehouse building, a collection of overlooked building types/ urban spaces/infrastructures from the Special Administration Region—shaped in the metropolis’ formative post-war decades, but deemed outdated and readily demolished in today’a rapid development—is presented in the format of an archive.
The archive highlights the civic aspirations and ventilational wisdoms already anticipating the Anthropocene shift: from the co-operative housing and multifunctional market-library-sports public buildings to the composite and industrial buildings; from public housing estates and the open spaces on their podiums to the curb-scale ground mediations of the topography of the city and the ordinary as well as seminal skyscrapers built by bamboo scaffolding. The archive and the observation deck together underline the potentials of these future heritages for Hong Kong and the world.