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MArch 1DESIGN STUDIOG4 li shiqiao t1Aviation MuseumG5 esther lorenz t2Links and HubsFlying is one of the most persistent human Hong Kong has established one of the mostimaginations. This MArch Studio explores the advanced and efficient transport networks in theidea of flying, both as an intellectual conception, world, which is currently undergoing a majorand as an aesthetic project, through a range of expansion, with the addition of several new lines32 investigations from Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying and stations. The aim of this studio is to reclaim33machines to Google Earth’s flight simulation.The aviation experience of humanity capturesa tremendous achievement, and gives usa powerful sense of overcoming distances,achieving “air superiority” in wars, and attainingsights through “bird’s eye view”.As Hong Kong relocated its airport from Kai Takto Chep Lak Kok, the vacant airport at Kai Tak hasnow been at the center of Hong Kong’s propertyand business speculation – proposals inevitablyinvolve high-end residential developments anda cruise terminal. Here we would like to takethis chance to imagine a place dedicated to thememory and exploration of flying, to humaninterests instead of to money.transport and its hubs from their purely functionalstigma and rediscover their quality as place ofencounter and spatial experience as well as theirgenerative potential as cultural stimulus within theexisting city fabric.The studio will be based on the notion ofmovement in cities as a fundamental form ofcultural production and exchange. On an urbanscale, students will be asked to conceptualize thenewly created linkages in regard to their culturalpotential, and on an architectural scale, proposedesigns, which offer architectural quality andat the same time activate potentials, which areembedded in the city fabric, the spatial practices,and the history of the places investigated.above: low flying airplane above height-restricted housings, kowloon city; below: travellator connecting central-hong kong station, centralELECTIVETransitional Spacearch 5301a esther lorenz t1Idea-based Architectural Designarch 5301b li shiqiao t2Cinematic Spacearch 5301c esther lorenz t2ACTIVITIESWorkshop by Jon Tarrydesign studio G4The course explores how the ephemeral sideof urban space can be captured and describedand how this observation can deliver conclusionsrevealing new significances and provoking reinterpretationsof the city. It introduces culturaltheory on movement in space and spaces oftransience, and develops composite mappingas a principal technique of investigation onsociocultural phenomena in urban space. Theoutcome of the studio will be based on boththeoretical formulation and mapped empiricaldata.What are design ideas? This course provides aplatform for reflection on design ideas, as well as forstudents’ assessment of their own design ideas beingtested out in studios. The course considers processbasedand idea-based design traditions, formulatesthree different levels of ideas: simple, critical, andreflexive, and examines techniques (techne) withoutwhich design ideas cannot exist. Students will reflecton their own studio design critically, aiming tostrengthen ideas and achieve better studio results.The aim of the course is to strengthen spaceperception, observation and discovery of issueswith audio-visual media as tool. It offers anintroduction to history and theory of film and tovideo in relation to space perception. Differentexamples of movies and experimental films willbe screened and discussed in regard to the waythey represent space and city. Students will learnbasic techniques of scripting, filming and editingand will produce their own short films.Jon Tarry is an artist who works with paint andsculptural constructions in three dimensionalforms associated with the spaces and forms of airtravel. He has exhibited extensively throughoutAustralia and internationally. His work is heldin collections including the Private CollectionChrysler Building New York, the University ofArizona, Fort Tatlier Barcelona, Artbank Sydney,the Kerry Stokes Collection, the Holmes áCourt Collection, Wesfarmers, the AustralianWar Memorial and at Parliament House inCanberra. Jon has undertaken numerous publiccommissions, including most recently at St MarySchool, Karrinyup, and the Gateway to theCity of Bunbury. He is currently employed asa Lecturer in the School of Architecture & FineArts, University of WA, and has completed aMasters degree in Architecture through the RMIT,Melbourne.