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Homescape 家景
2006
MAP Office is a research think tank based in Hong Kong, led by Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix. For over a decade, the architect/artist duo has explored the rapid changes taking place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a region of intense development and industrialisation. MAP Office critically approaches the PRD as an interface of local and global forces such as cultural identity and massive urbanisation, documenting how these transformations affect people and space. They use multiple methods, including maps, drawings, photographs, videos, writings, and performances, to record and communicate information. My PRD Stories gathers a number of projects MAP Office undertook between 2001 and 2005. The works demonstrate the office’s approach and recurring subjects of landscape, infrastructure, architecture, inhabitation, economics, and labour.
Homescape is a group of photographs documenting public and private residential towers. Some images incorporate superimposed equations like ‘accumulation + speculation = intoxication’ or text drawn from real-estate marketing language, with phrases like ‘aristocratic bliss’. The words, rendered in colours similar to the buildings, merge with the background. Continuing research developed in MAP Office’s Homes for China project, the images’ formal repetition of high-rise floors and windows depicts a standardisation of individuals, communities, and identity.
Homescape is a group of photographs documenting public and private residential towers. Some images incorporate superimposed equations like ‘accumulation + speculation = intoxication’ or text drawn from real-estate marketing language, with phrases like ‘aristocratic bliss’. The words, rendered in colours similar to the buildings, merge with the background. Continuing research developed in MAP Office’s Homes for China project, the images’ formal repetition of high-rise floors and windows depicts a standardisation of individuals, communities, and identity.
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