5.1 Amy Kempa, Y3 ‘Manufacturing Living’. In this project, rural Hong Kong – a landscape of abandonment – becomes a speculative model of countryside living, revitalising the rural through the implementation of industry. Embedded within a rapidly declining environment, it imagines a symbiotic exchange between the heavily polluting underbelly of TaoBao LED manufacturing and its parasitic camouflage of idyllic rural living above. Light forms the architectural driver, where the unique nature of production provides a landscape of constant illumination. 5.2 Zifeng Ye, Y3 ‘The Blue Frontier’. A proposal for an experimental community located on the Plover Cove Reservoir in Hong Kong. This project responds to the city’s recurring proposals to reclaim land from the reservoir and proposes that Plover Cove be its first floating town. The project utilises water entering into the reservoir to create animated public and domestic spaces for the enjoyment of visitors and residents. 5.3 Emily Mak, Y3 ‘Dust Matter(s)’. Set in the context of the thriving industrial city of Shenzhen, this speculative project proposes an experiential facility that aims to educate the public on the dust in the air that is often unnoticed. The building itself functions as an air filter and makes visible the impact, weight and mass of dust. The immersive journey is a live cautionary tale on the effects of air pollution in the city. 5.4, 5.7 Marcus Yang Mohan, Y3 ‘Rooftop Escapades’. Informed by Hong Kong’s history of informal rooftop classrooms, ‘Rooftop Escapades’ proposes a rooftop educational facility that drapes over the existing urban landscape, forming alcoves that serve as spaces for play and learning. Concrete – the ubiquitous material of the city – is re-examined as a soft tactile language that can protect, nurture and embrace. 5.5 Barbara Sawko, Y2 ‘Robotic Toy Workshop’. This project proposes a building that educates children from both sides of the border zone between mainland China and Hong Kong. They will learn programming and robotics, but also creative thinking and looking at things from different points of view. Taking inspiration from Chinese Yin Yang ideology, the centre will focus on balanced development of both the mind and the body. 5.6 Szymon Padlewski, Y3 ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’. Proposing a building that acts as an architectural decoy, confusing and tricking outside observers to create a surveillance-free space, this ‘church of freedom’ offers a democratic space where the people of Shenzhen can express their thoughts and opinions and share ideas. A prototype testing ambiguous architecture based on optical illusions and camouflage, the building obscures and confuses external and internal visual surveillance. 5.8 Anahita Hosseini Ardehali, Y2 ‘The First Frontier’. It is the near future and, with their expanding space programme, China are looking to colonise Mars and the Moon. The building proposes a space travel agency that aims to capture the cosmic sublime. It is a place for visitors to experience recreations of certain phenomena from these astronomical bodies in hope of promoting the excitement of space travel. 5.9 Nandinzul Munkhbayar, Y2 ‘Thinkers’ Hotel-cumLandscape’. Narrating traditional Chinese philosophies, this project raises awareness of stress levels at work and attempts to offer spatial opportunities to help nourish mental health. Adopting an interwoven spatial language, it intersperses live/work spaces with gardens and waterscapes where guests are met with social encounters and sensory experiences.
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5.10 Alice Shanahan, Y2 ‘Small Farm Policy’. Responding to controversial governmental policies, this project proposes a new village typology that facilitates rural growth in the hinterlands post-2047. The building brings the visitor on a journey through the landscape before entering the housing system above, based on a modular system centring around a singularly designed column. 5.11 Niamh Cahill, Y2 ‘Casting Xingping’. In response to the need for more sustainable tourism along the Li River, this project proposes a theatre that provides a platform for the revival of Chinese shadow theatre. As night falls, the landscape becomes the backdrop for projections of light, creating an immersive experience amongst the dramatic karst landscape. A community centre by day, the building is designed as a shadow theatre with the roof filtering light into the various spaces. 5.12 Yujie Wu, Y2 ‘Celebration as Preservation’. A post-demolition urban village community centre becomes democratic place for both past and future residents. By respecting the spacial format of the demolished urban village, people are provided opportunities to experience the scale of the past living space. The community library and the market underneath keep the legacy of the demolished urban village, and give the original function back to its space. 5.13 Cheuk Yan (Felix) Lau, Y2 ‘The New Tourist Rafts Terminal’. The terminal strives to respond to the contrast in tourism in the area during different seasons, and to resolve the poor management of the tourist sightseeing rafts along the Li River in XingPingZhen, China. The flexible intervention adapts to and embraces the seasonal changes, expanding and contracting according to the demand for space in different seasons. 5.14–5.16 Maria Patricia Castelo, Y3 ‘Vertical Landscapes’. A proposal for a vertical urban park that focuses on bringing the sublime quality of nature to a dense city context, providing Hong Kong city dwellers with access to scenic natural landscapes. The park provides plants that filter air users may take a vertical, winding hike up the building. 5.17 Mabel McCabe, Y2 ‘Institute for Food Innovation’. This project explores sustainable future foods: fake meat and insects. With buildings on opposite sides of the water, circulation is key to making sure the visitor explores every area, from food kitchens to a lecture theatre. All senses are experienced in eating a wealth of new foods, whilst travelling on a journey to discover how it is made and ending at the sunset restaurant. 5.18 Daniel Eytan Grubner, Y2 ‘Rebranding and Reviving Chinese Oysters’. Located in a region with a rich history of aquaculture, this building proposal is comprised of an oyster supplement factory and experimental medicine clinic. The theatricality of the industry is accentuated by encouraging public entry to manufacturing spaces and offering wellness treatments within the factory’s operation. 5.19 Eleanor Harding, Y3 ‘Embassy of the Unseen’. This alternative embassy uses a responsive architecture to communicate its occupation and needs to the overlooking luxury tower blocks, whilst shifting scales to maximise approachability on the ground. The ‘unseen’ (people with no visibility within the city) are exemplified as the ‘live-in maids’ and the ‘working poor’. The embassy exploits legal loopholes around land ownership in favour of those with no space of their own.