HKDI

International Architectural Competition for the new Hong Kong Design Institute - Merit Award - Honourable Mention.

The project follows the concept of the “Chinese garden” as a potential of an urban energy that could activate a process of a public life in the city.
The “Chinese garden” is composed by vertical elements {stones} and horizontal elements {water, earth, and the sky as a horizon}. HKDI takes those elements into considerations. In fact, the different solid volumes develop and act on such thematic. The volumes of vertical dimensions that occupy the limits of the area act as a different stones defining a public space made of green land and characterised by a waterfall. The public space is an open space that allows the inhabitant to access the area and makes it participate into the public life of the city and the HKDI. The other two linear volumes develop the theme of the horizon acting as the sky into this urban area.
The generating elements of the concept {the stones, the earth, the water, and the sky} find their physical translation in the complex organisation of the area, through the creation of correspondences between their evocative images and their specific role of the architectural and functional organisation of the project.

Alessandro Console with C. Batach, G. Benedetti, L. Bertone, A. Canale, A. Cancellieri, G. Oliva