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Quotidian Architecture
Quotidian Architecture
2010 | Hong Kong | Curator

Inspired by the colloquial Chinese phrase for the necessities of daily life - 衣食住行, ‘Quotidian Architectures’ asks architects, artists, activists, educators, industrialists, and governmental agencies to re-envision the necessary choices we make every day: What we wear, what we eat, where we live, how we travel, what we learn, how we relax. These seemingly simple decisions of individual inhabitants collectively contribute to the overall environment and lasting well-being of a city. ‘Quotidian Architectures’

MTR Railway Vision 2020
MTR Railway Vision 2020
2010 | at OMA | Hong Kong

Railway vision 2020 aims to enhance the experience of travellers and visitors to the stations of the Mass transit Railway: it is also conceived to improve the operation of the system. It leaps into the design, technology and operation as its vase: it offers new outlooks based on the current solid, robust design and operation that everybody in Hong Kong already know and appreciated.  A new design that attempts to make a shift to the future and be realistic at the same time is envisioned.

West Kowloon Cultural District
West Kowloon Cultural District
2010 | at OMA | Hong Kong

The West Kowloon Cultural District confronts OMA with the task of turning an overwhelming governmental ambition, with a bewildering diversity of stakeholders, translated in a massive amount of real estate with an incredible richness of program, into a proposal that is fun and serious, planned and spontaneous, large but intimate, Chinese but international, iconic but practical, understandable yet surprising. To avoid the shock of imposing overwhelming change, OMA has chosen as the main model of the project a typology with which every citizen of Hong Kong is familiar: the Village.

Edouard Malingue Gallery
Edouard Malingue Gallery
2010 | at OMA | Hong Kong

The design for the Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong envisions the juxtaposition of two contrasting spaces: an enclosed and refined environment for exhibiting art and a raw open space for the gallery’s administration areas.