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Corliss Ng

Corliss Ng

New York, NY, US

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Citta Slow

Responding to the Citta Slow motto in recent Europe, the manifesto of the project stands as slowing people down mentally and physically. The museum introduces a slow lifestyle to Hong Kong through museum experiences. The museum provides Hong Kong people a chance to rethink about their lifestyle, as well as introducing them a new attitude to life, Citta Slow. The museum is located at Harcourt Garden. The site is surrounded by networks of high speed traffic. It also marks the end of the footbridge system in Central. The design acts as a connection system of the existing pedestrian fly overs, at the same time creating a labyrinth to slow down the circulation in contrast to the high speed surrounding. In cooperating with art studio, the museum is not only a physical connection, but also a spiritual connection between the public to art.

Maze was designed to get people lost and hence physically slowing them down, yet in plan. In this project, maze was taken as both in plan and section, to create different spatial experience and lighting condition and explore a new concept of space as demonstrated from the sections.


In cooperating with art studio, the museum provides the public a new perspective of art which is how art is processed and the artists’ attitude of life. Also addressing the isolation of art in Hong Kong, the museum is not only a physical connection, but also a spiritual connection between the public to art.

 


The Form of the Museum act as a connection of the two bridges. As a strip to be a direct connector between two circulation while an auditorium is placed at the middle as the HEART of the museum. Meanwhile, underneath the auditorium, a corridor is created which condense public activity within acting as an Art Village Corridor.
 

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Hong Kong, HK
My Role: Designer