Construction Manual for Lantau Commune (2017)
CAD drawing, Digital Print
580mm x 580mm
‘Certainly we appreciate architecture as a spatial presence, but there is beauty also in the construction process: the formwork and falsework, the tie bolts and scaffoldings, the sweat, tediousness and exhaustion under the sun. Construction is meant to be a ritual. It reveals knowledge, dignifies labour, gathers people – and it’s great fun. Working at the intersection of ecology, place-making, rite of passage and tectonics, the proposed Lantau Ecology Education Centre is a participative construction site, at the periphery of a protected landscape reserve. Providing easy-to-assemble construction materials means everyone may design, communicate, build and dwell on their own. The end result is not a fixed building but a cluster that evolves over time: its birth, growth, decay and death resembles that found in nature: the impermanence of being.’
The drawing received the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize from the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2017. Full essay at Drawing Matter.