The Void: the latent territory of Hong Kong

“Sparking ocean, tranquil Horizon, immersive forest and the infinite sky will be our protagonists of the proposal.”

Situated at the west corner of the Kowloon peninsula, the Cultural Park enjoys a great view of the verticality of Victoria Harbour while remaining reasonably intimate with the urban fabric for the public’s ease of transportation. The location of the pavilion site, on the other side, faces away to the open horizon. It offers a rather relaxed outlook for our horizontal walkway in juxtaposition with the highrise backdrop of Kowloon station complex. May nature be our dearest guest and daily architectural elements are our acquainted host. The proposed space invites everyone for a little break.

We also dare to mobilize the entire nursery in order to achieve this simple goal. The proposed pavilion will thread through the cultural park in some 200 meters colonnaded corridor, extending its oscillating hospitality onto the main visitors’ entrance.

And there commences the celebration of events, from smaller interventions of space to the central pavilion. This incremental procession embraces different existing elements of nature along its path: soft grass, gridded tree patterns, occasional ocean breezes, sound-making pebbles, concrete paving, open sky, and the immediate sea at the other end of this walk.

The project adopts light-weight and renewable building materials inclusive of wood, polycarbonate, and glass. As the pavilion is meant to be adaptable based on a modular system, its assembly is provisioned with high flexibility for potential reconfigurations and relocation.

This conceptual proposal was prepared by Doyeon Cho, Elaine Tsui, Xinyue Zhang. Let us know your thoughts.

Elaine