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DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade

Presenting Design Trust Futures Studio’s timelap

Presenting Design Trust Futures Studio’s timelapse video - The construction of Yi Pei Square Playground! This park officially opened in mid-April, three years in making from research, concept, public engagement, prototype to construction. The design team is happy to put forth a “Communal Living Room” design concept to bring together local communities in positive ways. Read the latest feature on this playful park - link in bio!

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「信言設計大使」之「未.共研社」最新延時影像——展示荃灣二陂坊遊樂場改造全過程。二陂坊遊樂場於今年四月正式開幕。從調研、概念、公眾參與、模型展示到建造的三年製作，設計團隊很高興可以實現「社區客廳」概念，去帶動更多正面的社區效應。請參閱簡介查看這個遊樂場的最新報道。

Design Trust is delighted to share #DesignTrustFea

Design Trust is delighted to share #DesignTrustFeatureGrant project “Split Lives: Stories from the Underground House” led by University of Hong Kong Department of Architecture academic and architect researchers, Joshua Bolchover and John Lin of Rural Urban Framework, is featured in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. It examines the process of rural to urban transformation of China and Mongolia through built projects, research, exhibitions and writing. Stories of the split lives of these dwellings and their inhabitants reveal a glimpse into what life is like in rural China today, operating between the scale of the house and the scale of the territory. The exhibition experience includes a 1:1 installation models and video projection to allow the visitors to experience the space of the underground house.

For more information, please visit: https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/rural-urban-framework.
“The dug-out house from northern China is a unique typology that stems from the material constraints of the site—where there was no available stone or wood—and environmental conditions, making it cool in summers and warm in winters. A large central courtyard is excavated in the earth and contains shared family spaces with living spaces carved outwards along each edge. Farming, the livelihood of these original dwellers, however, remains above ground. Today, at many sites, this farmland has been replaced by housing, factories, or infrastructure. Yet, as urbanization encroaches and disrupts the surface, the dug-out houses remain. Some stay as they were, some are only used seasonally, others have changed programmatically, and some lie abandoned.”

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Image Credits:
[1] Old vs New: underground houses surrounded by new apartment blocks (Shaanxi, China). Image courtesy of Rural Urban Framework.
[2] Underground House (Sanmenxia, China) Aerial view - axonometric. Image courtesy of Rural Urban Framework.

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition –

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is now opened in Venice from May 22 – November 21. Responding to the main Curatorial theme “How will we live together?” curated by architect and scholar Hashim Sarkis. “We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together”, Sarkis has commented. Responding to the theme Daniel López-Pérez, and designers Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architects and many more created Geoscope 2 – a split-sphere multimedia installation rethinking R. Buckminster Fuller’s geoscopes, it showcases contemporary voices inside and outside architecture. As one of the contributors, “DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade” is also featured in the installation as evidence of the diversity in how we think, act, and interact with one another.

Ranging from Pritzker Prize winning architect Kazuyo Sejima to radical ecologist and philosopher Timothy Morton. Visitors to the installation at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini will find themselves enveloped in a panoramic multimedia experience projected over 42 individual faces including: Marisa Yiu, Satyan Devadoss, Karl Chu, Ulrika Karlsson, Pablo Kobayashi, Urtzi Grau, AKT II, Cal Fires Technosylva, Nerea Calvillo, Ciro Najle, Reiser + Umemoto (with Julian Harake, Zaid Kashef Alghata and Yumi Chu), Tyler Armstrong, Elena M’Bouroukounda, Luis Muñoz, Daniel López-Pérez, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Timothy Morton, David Ruy, Forensic Architecture, Stan Allen, Jeffrey Kipnis, Kazuyo Sejima, Erhard An-He Kinzelbach, Elisa Iturbe. Comprised of an international cast of contributors, Geoscope 2: Worlds generates a complex, kaleidoscopic ecosystem, a tableaux of world-thinking on the edge.

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[1-3] Geoscope 2 is on view at The 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
[4] “DESIGN TRUST: Critically Homemade” is also featured in the “Geoscope 2”.

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