LOT-EK, HONG KONG design institute

HONG KONG design institute

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HONG KONG design institute

type

education

competition entry

2006

location

Hong Kong

client

Hong Kong SAR

size

40,000 SF

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concept & vision

One of the most compelling expressions of the highway overpass is the multi-layered confluence of major highways intersections. HKDI capitalizes on and adapts the already existing technology and its engineering to create a complex architecture of floating and interconnected buildings for the new design school. The scheme creates a strong icon that can stand against the density and verticality of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. This linear highway organization maximizes the influx of air, sunlight, and outdoor circulation. The direct implementation and adaptation of the highway overpass technology and typology leads to an intriguing referential tension between the familiar and the unexpected, in both form and program. The bold structure of elegant engineering solutions challenges and is simultaneously manipulated by the dynamic programming of the design institute.

related object:

highway overpass

related project:

EARTH centre Istanbul