On the verge of falling

Hong Kong

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On the verge of falling

Hong Kong

Firm

Studio of SAI

Type

Commercial › Pop-Up
Cultural › Sculpture
Educational › Other

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

City planning and architecture design has long been a top down process which lack public participation and interest in Hong Kong. The reason of it is complicated, yet, we would like to bring architecture closer to people.

On the verge of falling is a spatial installation transforming a room into a claw machine. Through this popular gaming machine, visitors will be rebuilding an imaginary vertical village of Hong Kong. Shapes of selected architecture and urban space in Hong Kong will be translated into an abstract form and through the gaming machine, be stacked into an complex of architectural cluster that represent player’s ideal village.

Not only being a game machine, it also performs as a voting device to record player choice of architecture or urban spaces. We hope this data could help city planner to better understanding people preferences in order to build a better city in the future.

The stacking blocks will be made of recycled plastic and tailored in furniture scale. The blocks will be donated to different education institute in Hong Kong after the exhibition.