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PIXEL 像素
designed 2005, made 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.
PIXEL is a series of detailed black-and-white drawings. The isometric perspectives—a method of representing three-dimensional space with equal measurements—depict urbanising landscapes and what MAP Office calls ‘lean planning’. This concept is based on ideas of ‘lean manufacturing’ or ‘just-in-time production’, which are management strategies aimed at minimising factors like waste and time while maximising productivity and profits. Applied to urbanism, the drawings chart interchangeable components and the circulation of people and objects. Pixellated settlements and small planning interventions, such as hubs or connections, can generate great change in cities or regions as needed.
PIXEL is a series of detailed black-and-white drawings. The isometric perspectives—a method of representing three-dimensional space with equal measurements—depict urbanising landscapes and what MAP Office calls ‘lean planning’. This concept is based on ideas of ‘lean manufacturing’ or ‘just-in-time production’, which are management strategies aimed at minimising factors like waste and time while maximising productivity and profits. Applied to urbanism, the drawings chart interchangeable components and the circulation of people and objects. Pixellated settlements and small planning interventions, such as hubs or connections, can generate great change in cities or regions as needed.
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