Borrowed Nature
Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano, are co-founders of multidisciplinary architecture studio, SKY YUTAKA. Their project Borrowed Nature draws inspiration from shared landscape design techniques that exist in China and Japan called jiejing or shakkei, which translates to “borrowed scenery”.
Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano, are co-founders of multidisciplinary architecture studio, SKY YUTAKA. Their project Borrowed Nature draws inspiration from shared landscape design techniques that exist in China and Japan called jiejing or shakkei, which translates to “borrowed scenery”.
Responding to the context of Asian landscape and the history of garden evolution in China and Japan, the installation is an aesthetic interpretation of elements of our city and exploration of both formal and cultural relevance of today’s urban landscape. The project explores the way we perceive landscape within the contemporary city.
Milestone
2016.Q4
Project awarded Design Trust Seed Grant
2017.12 – 2018.06
Installation is presented at Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen.
2019.10
An expanded version of their earlier installation was presented in Hong Kong responding to “The Archigram City” Design Trust event
- 2016
- 成功申請人: Sarah Lee, Yutaka Yano
- 機構: SKY YUTAKA
Sarah Lee and Yutaka Yano are co-founder of multi-disciplinary architecture studio, SKY YUTAKA. Working in the field of Architecture, landscape and design, design research is an important part of their practice and projects include a series of commissioned installations using various media which are part of the studio’s long term exploration on culture, technology and materiality.
Trained at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, Lee is a registered architect and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Lincoln at Hong Kong Design Institute. Graduated from The Bartlett, University College of London; Yano received the RIBA Bronze Medal and “Sergeant Drawing Prize” from Royal Institute of British Architects. Post graduation he gained professional training while working at architectural offices in London, where he developed technical and design skills, managing various private and commercial projects from concept inception to completion.
- 項目成果: Interpreting landscape In The Digital Era
Date: 2 December 2017 – 3 June 2018
Venue: Main Gallery, Design Society Museum (Exhibited as part of “Minding Digital” exhibition), Shenzhen