AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
mountain, development, country
COUNTRY
Hong Kong SAR
DESIGNED BY
Tsang Aron Wai Chun, Napp Studio
Chan Juan Hou, Napp Studio
WEBSITE
https://nappstudio.com/Frozen-Mountain
Frozen Mountain
Ice mould of the few most iconic Hong Kong’s nature: rethink the relationship with the nature
Napp Studio was invited to design and create the official official souvenir for the 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Hong Kong), we wish to create a piece that visitors can interact and, hence, acknowledge the message inherent to the Biennale exhibition’s underlying theme: the concerns of the ever-decreasing greenery ratio in Hong Kong due to ever-increasing development needs.
The work consists of a silicone ice mould of the few most iconic Hong Kong’s nature: North Lantau, Tai Mo Shan, Lion Rock, Tai Lam, Lamma Island and the Peak. Visitors may bring these home and make their own “melting-nature”.
Instead of feeding them with textbook information, which no doubt would not be effective at all, through these daily objects, we wish the public would slowly begin rethink the relationship with the nature and be aware of various development policies that may destroy our previous habitat before it is too late.