THE COURTYARD
- Prototype
- Assembling
- Success vs Failure
- Panel’s detail
- Preparation
The Courtyard is a prototype for a foundationless disassemblable collective structure in a homeless center, based on recycling and upcycling. It is funded by Project Mingde.
Site: SBSH, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Architecture requires to be reconsidered and reinvented, given the current environmental crisis. In search of an alternative paradigm in design, we are looking at the public space of Hong Kong, a concrete jungle where the urgency for natural environment preservation is often at odds with the need to house the population. In this highly dense, strictly regulated, and often individualistic city, the aim is to rethink the balance between the built and the natural environment, find new ways of collective living among human and non-human beings, and reconsider architecture timeframes, materiality and construction circularity.
Site: SBSH, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Architecture requires to be reconsidered and reinvented, given the current environmental crisis. In search of an alternative paradigm in design, we are looking at the public space of Hong Kong, a concrete jungle where the urgency for natural environment preservation is often at odds with the need to house the population. In this highly dense, strictly regulated, and often individualistic city, the aim is to rethink the balance between the built and the natural environment, find new ways of collective living among human and non-human beings, and reconsider architecture timeframes, materiality and construction circularity.
