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Nanling 南嶺
2005
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.
Nanling focuses on a national forest in Guangdong and its various functions, as a leisure site, a natural resource, and a scientific subject. Photographs depict a trail, a treehouse, a power plant, and newly constructed apartments. Another image shows wooden panels resembling books on a shelf, each classified and labelled. The project pinpoints moments of the natural environment’s development, questioning the physical and cultural transformations occurring in the region.
Nanling focuses on a national forest in Guangdong and its various functions, as a leisure site, a natural resource, and a scientific subject. Photographs depict a trail, a treehouse, a power plant, and newly constructed apartments. Another image shows wooden panels resembling books on a shelf, each classified and labelled. The project pinpoints moments of the natural environment’s development, questioning the physical and cultural transformations occurring in the region.
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