concept & vision

our direct implementation and adaptation of the highway overpass technology and typology as a tension between familiar and unexpected in both form and program. The elegant engineering solutions challenges and is simultaneously manipulated by the dynamic programming of the design institute

design & architecture

HKDI capitalizes on and adapts the already existing technology and its engineering to create a complex architecture of floating and interconnected buildings for the new design school, as an icon standing against density and verticality of Hong Kong’s urban landscape. This linear highway organization maximizes the influx of air, sunlight, and outdoor circulation

program & use

a total of 8 concrete columns with a hollow structural section hold our elevated volumes, minimize impact on the ground, and provide space for elevators and stairs. The roofs are the primary green spaces in the campus, easily accessible and also publicly accessible as needed. Rooftop gardens minimize heat gain in the school spaces below

impact & significance

the highway overpass is a feat of engineering. We capture and explore the multi-layered confluence of major highways intersections, cropped to test its complex and dynamic potential, reimagined as inhabitable exclusively by our bodies and by pedestrian life