Temple of Fabric, The Mills, Hong Kong Exhibition, HK Architecture Installation Images
Temple of Fabric in The Mills, Hong Kong
26 Jan 2021
Temple of Fabric Exhibition
Exhibition Design: Napp Studio & Architects
Location: The Mills, Hong Kong, China
Temple of Fabric, Hong Kong

While yarns are weaved into fabric and knitted into garments that protect our bodies, building materials (e.g. wood, bricks, steel etc.) are put together as architecture, keeping us from the weather and in warmth.

The awarded projects of this year?s HKIA Annual Awards are the indispensable components, the ?yarns? or ?bricks?, that form the foundation and bedrock of Hong Kong Architecture, encouraging peers to keep up with the standard of excellence in generating our city fabric.
To strike a symbolic analogy, we used the content of the awarded projects as the ?materials? to construct the exhibition space. A series of ribbon profiles are used to create a myriad of roofscapes through a gradual transformation from the first ribbon minimally depicting the origin of architecture – ?The Hut?, to finally a ?Temple?, and ultimately compiling into a full cityscape.

The entire exhibition is created using ?Tyvek?, a fabric of innovation and versatility; the synthetic material acts as a medium to introduce this year?s winning buildings to the public. Tyvek is a flashspun, highly-dense polyethylene synthetic fibre. Not only is it commonly used to protect buildings during construction as it has very...