Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2019 May

First Issue

Issue 1, P.46 - P.48

Re-interpreting Landscape and Architecture

Kwok Yan (Sarah) Lee

HKIA,RIBA,ARB HK/UK

and  Yutaka Yano

HKIA,RIBA,ARB

Figures

Figure 1 - UABB is a three month event that is co-organised by Hong Kong and Shenzhen under an innovative “Two Cities, One Biennale” approach which aims to promote education and public discussion around a dynamic programme of architecture, urbanism, design and culture. As co-curators of the Hong Kong edition (2015/2016), the exhibition titled ‘Visions 2050 – Lifestyle and the City’ was conceived as a narrative of the past, present and future centred around the question on our lifestyle and the city.


Figure 2 - Borrowed Nature is a kinetic installation commission part of the Design Society’s inaugural ‘Minding the Digital’ exhibition (2017). The kinetic installation with multiple sensors and networked sculptures explores the viewing experience that is division between the material and the virtual that intends to promote a dialogue about the technology and landscape.




Figure 3,4,5 Invisible Landscapes (2019) describes the evolution of Sha Tin’s unique urban landscape through a riverside walk of twelve permanent site-specific architectural interventions. Responding to the surrounding context, the trail celebrates the cultural fabric of time and connects past and present relationship between the urban and natural landscape, geography, infrastructure, cultural and sporting legacy along the Shing Mun River.