Title:
Extending the City: Altered Estates | Common Grounds;
 Living Architecture; Sky-rise Living with Nature; Landscape Spectacle

Materials: Mixed Media

Size (W x L x H) (mm): 1310 x770 x1290 and 1867 x 770 x 1285

Synopsis:
This quartet of speculative proposals imagines the city altered and extended in ways that meet emerging demands for living collaboratively and for engaging each other and our environment productively. New perspectives and new technologies might reconfigure, expand, and augment the city at multiple scales to support a dynamic urban experience. Here, hydro-ecological interventions gird buildings and intertwine to extend across blocks and merge with the territory. A living, growing arboreal structure reorganizes the infrastructure and experience of our streets. Six of the highest, densest and greenest sky gardens exemplify how human-nature interactions are designed and advocated in the vertical city. And the relationship between compact living and its surrounding landscape expands, multiplies and reverberates through a spectacle of reflection.

“Altered Estates | Common Grounds” by Pratt GAUD + HKU Division of Landscape Architecture

A series of structural and hydro-ecological interventions expand the capacity of housing blocks, intertwine natural and infrastructural systems, and reconnect a territory that has been fragmented.

“Living Architecture” by MAKE (HK) Ltd.
A living, growing arboreal structure reorganizes the infrastructure and experience of our streets.

“Sky-rise Living with Nature” by Tony Ip Green Architects Ltd.

Six of the highest, densest and greenest sky gardens exemplify how human-nature interactions are designed and advocated in the vertical city.

“Landscape Spectacle” by HKU Division of Landscape Architecture + HKU Department of Sociology

The relationship between compact living and its surrounding landscape expands, multiplies and reverberates
 through a spectacle of reflection.