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Current sustainability logics smooth over differences and deny individual subjectivities. Suits! rethinks the relationship of the individual to that of a larger ecology- not dissimilar to how 'suits' defines an individual to their immediate surroundings, reclaiming the term sustainability as a smart technology for architecture. A hybridization of energy flows in the office environment – intelligently reusing physical forms of embodied energy and harnessing invisible latent energies.

Suits! also attempts to identify the byproducts of daily occupancy and usage and evaluate them impartially as both potential sources of manifold energy and as design opportunities. The landscape of the office environment transforms into an amorphous energy-scape, whereby designing the workplace from the inside-out, new forms of social connections and organizations are created.

Demolition and reconstruction becomes aberrant as the urgency for office spaces within high density urban areas catapults rental prices. Minimal intervention and adaptation of existing structures seem most logical when demand for spaces are high. Here, intricate waterways are embedded within surfaces most frequented by human and heat producing objects, to trap excess energy for electrical conversion. These thin water systems, seen here running underneath the floor system (not unlike radiant cooling tubes) creeps up to walls as well as puches through the horizontal datums to create a vertical element. These tubes when exposed to the air as vertical rods, are condensation surfaces to extract moisture from the environment and increase the comfort level of the nearby occupants. This system is catered especially to the Hong Kong climate, where the humidity of the air is seen as an asset, and converted into a medium that contributes to energy generation.

Thermography is borrowed from the medical world as a mode of representation, as all materiality are stripped away of its normative categorization - clothing, furniture, work station, building etc., as the project is to be seen as a unified whole.