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Underneath 底下
2005
MAP Office is a research think tank based in Hong Kong, led by Laurent Gutierriez 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.
Underneath documents the various activities found below Guangzhou’s ring road. The homogeneous transportation infrastructure contrasts with the heterogeneous space underneath. Leftover spaces become sites of commerce and ingenuity, populated by shops, food trucks, furniture, vehicles, animals, and games. The photographs show the spatial and socio-economic transformation of the landscape, and depict common themes in MAP Office’s research: the nexus of villages, farms, factories, and shopping malls, as well as the interrelated nature of centrally planned designs and informal appropriations of space.
Underneath documents the various activities found below Guangzhou’s ring road. The homogeneous transportation infrastructure contrasts with the heterogeneous space underneath. Leftover spaces become sites of commerce and ingenuity, populated by shops, food trucks, furniture, vehicles, animals, and games. The photographs show the spatial and socio-economic transformation of the landscape, and depict common themes in MAP Office’s research: the nexus of villages, farms, factories, and shopping malls, as well as the interrelated nature of centrally planned designs and informal appropriations of space.
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