AN ARCHIVE FOR LIVING MATERIALS: Exhibition at PMQ
The exhibition, co-curated by Ivan Valin, Susanne Trumpf, and Ceci Wong is shown at PMQ Hong Kong until 12.06.2022. It showcases a cycle of material research and experimentation within the built environment disciplines.
TAL-L or TAXON / ARCHIVE / LAB LIBRARY: A Digital Material Database
TAL-L is a database and teaching tool for landscape materials initiated by Ivan Valin and Susanne Trumpf. The digital database https://tall-materials.org/ is now online.
OASE JOURNAL #110: A Project of the Soil
Susanne Trumpf and Ivan Valin have published in the OASE Journals’ #110 issue ‘A project of the soil’. The paper investigates the potential to reclaim urban soils as a dynamic resource in remaking the city for a more sustainable future.
LANDSCAPE PERIPHERIES: HKU Design Studio MLA 1
The studio explored the core practices of landscape design in the context of the dynamic natural systems and contested territories along the coastal edge of Hong Kong Island.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: Book out now!
The book about Kong Kong’s miniature public open spaces authored by Xiaoxuan Lu, Susanne Trumpf, Ivan Valin has been published by Jovis and is now available in stores.
NO WALL: Space Divider
The room divider allows the One-bedroom Apartment to be split into a flexible space making it suitable for a family of four to live – and occasionally to work. The ad-hoc transformation of a rental unit touches only minimally the existing structure making it possible to remove the unit like a piece of furniture.
CONSTRUCTING LANDSCAPES: HKU Landscape Design Studio BA(LS) 2
The studio explored the relationship between the representation of landscapes and the production of landscapes. Students designed a series of spaces along a trail on top of Mount Davis shaping the integration between terrain, natural forces, and human habitation.
HANDS-ON ONLINE: HKU Landscape Media PDLA
The seminar introduced students to essential digital and manual tools of design and representation in landscape architecture. During remote learning in 2020, students transitioned to ‘home fablabs’ with minimal means to manifest and facilitate learning through the immediate approach of crafting.
TESTING GROUND: Elective on Local Material Investigations
The seminar introduced key concepts of materials flows and examined the use of local earthen materials in contemporary landscape architecture. It used the exploration of material qualities as a tool to understand wider concepts of sustainability, urban resources, as well as fabrication and analysis technologies.
SACRED SPACES, COMMON PLACES: HKU Landscape Design Studio MLA 1
The studio explored the minority cemeteries in Happy Valley. Students proposed interventionist strategies for these often-overlooked urban enclaves, cultivating new relationships between the living and the dead, the past and the present, the tangible and intangible heritages within a high-density urban setting.
LANDSCAPE MEDIA: The Fabrication of Terrain
The course explores transformations of an urban landscape from a geotechnical structure into a constructed object experimenting with two- and three dimensional representation and 1:1 prototyping.
SPARKLE! Journey of a City Foot Soldier
The exhibition Sparkle! Journey of a City Foot Soldier is curated by Sara Wong and features the work ‘Selections from the Hong Kong Stair Archive’ by Melissa Cate Christ and Susanne Trumpf. It is shown at Oi! until 06.01.2019.
FRINGE CLUB: Collette’s Terrace and Rooftop Salon
The design suggests minimal strategies for revitalising the rooftop terrace of the Grade I heritage building housing one of Hong Kong’s longest established not-for-profit arts organisations.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: Guangzhou exhibition
The third edition of the Interstitial Hong Kong exhibition, co-curated by Ivan Valin, Xiaoxuan Lu and Susanne Trumpf, is shown at Fei Gallery Guangzhou from 21.07. until 31.08.2018.
ROCKING DOG: Wooden toy for E.
The wooden rocking animal grows with the child. It adapts from a baby walker, to a rocking dog for toddlers, to a rocking stool for older kids.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: exhibition at PMQ
‘Interstitial Hong Kong’ presents an interactive exhibit showcasing unique public small places as a network of physical, cultural, and ecological assets. We invite the public to share their experiences of small-space urbanism and to reimagine the Sitting-out Area’s potential within our city.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: Shanghai Exhibition
Two exhibits, ‘From Miniature to Synchronizer’ and ‘From Border to Mediator’, develop a critical spatial analysis of the city’s landscapes by collecting and communicating the organizational attributes of its public spaces.
A TERRACE FOR ‘THE NEST’: St. John’s Cathedral grounds
The terrace and herb garden provide a retreat for staff of The Nest coffee shop, which supports adults with learning disabilities.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FRONTIERS: Sharing Economy and City Future
The article on the project Interstitial Hong Kong focuses on Sitting-out Areas, a unique public space typology distinguished by their small size and incidence in the interstices of the city’s physical structure.
HK STAIR ARCHIVE: Always at the edge
Always at the edge of things and between places / 永遠在邊緣永遠在過渡 exhibits photography, architectural drawings, multimedia art and design works all around Hong Kong’s stairs.
INTERSTITIAL HONG KONG: HKU Landscape Design Studio MLA 1
The studio explores everyday landscapes in a high-density urban context to discover the exceptional opportunities for landscape design and social and ecological enrichment of sites throughout the city.
NO SUGAR: AA Visiting School Hong Kong
Based on site research in Cha Kwo Ling Village, students look on the results of our global society’s addiction to the ‘sweet life’ and investigate how city dwellers can move away from pure consumption and reclaim an active advocacy. A future projection of the village is shown in an immersive exhibition at Osage Gallery.
PLANTER WORKSHOP: Educational Programme with Rooftop Republic
The collaborative planter making workshop teaches secondary school students to build planters from reclaimed pallet wood, which will be used at the school community garden.
SUPPORT STRUCTURES: HKU Landscape Design Studio MLA 1
The design studio explores basic tectonic interventions on two landscape typologies commonly found in Hong Kong: sitting-out areas and engineered slopes.
CAPSTONE RESEARCH: Theoretical Background for Design Thesis
Inspired from keywords related to urban phenomena in Hong Kong, students of Environment and Interior Design formulate and develop own research topics as framework for the bachelor thesis.
POST+ CAPITALIST CITY: re:publica 2015
CollageLab launches with their talk at re:publica a new call for papers based on the ideas resulting from the 2012 idea competition about society and urbanism.
HONG KONG EXPLORATIONS: Study Trip with HAWK Holzminden
Students of different architecture related disciplines from HAWK Holzminden in Germany come to Hong Kong for a 10 day study trip and visit local offices, urban villages and new town developments.
KINZO: SoundCloud Headquarter nominated for Architizer A+ Award
The SoundCloud office interior was nominated for the Architizer A+ Award! Susanne has been working on the design for the Berlin headquarter of the music platform with the architecture studio Kinzo.
AGING DRAGONS: Evergrowing Hong Kong
The Aging Dragons Exhibition is part of the ‘Beyond Big Plans: Let’s reinvent planning’ conference, a pre-event to the ISOCARP 2015. Exhibits about Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo are shown in the Seoul City Hall from 12th to 22nd March 2015.
TOURETTE #00: Wide Open
‘What’s the matter?’ is a call for calls for one issue of Tourette Journal and discusses a new ‘new materialism’, that has been emerging in architecture and related design practices which is attempting to grapple with what it means to live in the Anthropocene under the conditions of the Great Acceleration.
MONU #21: Interior Urbanism
The Urban Council Building is a unique typology in Hong Kong. The dense generic super block is stacked with potentially incompatible civic programs: wet markets and libraries; sport facilities and waste collection centers; government offices and cooked food centers.
