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Mapping Mobility: Guangshen Highway 流動軌跡：廣深公路
2002
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.
Mapping Mobility: Guangshen Highway is a visualisation of an expressway connecting Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The drawing graphically depicts the various buildings, activities, and other features along the length of the concrete highway. Factories, warehouses, lakes, forests, farmlands, residences, mixed-use buildings, road signs, and advertisements are represented through coloured rectangles. The chart conveys the dense, heterogeneous context and effect of a single piece of road infrastructure.
Mapping Mobility: Guangshen Highway is a visualisation of an expressway connecting Shenzhen and Guangzhou. The drawing graphically depicts the various buildings, activities, and other features along the length of the concrete highway. Factories, warehouses, lakes, forests, farmlands, residences, mixed-use buildings, road signs, and advertisements are represented through coloured rectangles. The chart conveys the dense, heterogeneous context and effect of a single piece of road infrastructure.
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