Looking for the Voids: Learning from Asia’s Liminal Urban Spaces as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural...

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Géraldine Borio

Looking for the Voids

Learning from Asia’s Liminal Urban Spaces as a Foundation to Expand an Architectural Practice...

Géraldine Borio

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English

Park Books
29 December 2023

Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects

In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from 15 years of experimental urban research in Asia, proposing new ways to interpret and design urban space. Borio's focus is on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and the sidewalks that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside outside, public private, or legal illegal.

This lavishly and attractively designed book offers a survey of the lessons Borio has learned from analysing urban typologies in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and from engaging with residents and their informal appropriation of such semi-private urban spaces. The concrete design principles that Borio has derived from her fieldwork offer assistance to researchers and urban designers in their own investigations and in translating their findings into new projects for the further development of urban and metropolitan spaces.

AUTHOR: Géraldine Borio is co-founder of the Hong Kong-based research and design firm Borio Lab and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at renowned venues such as the Vitra Design Museum In Weil am Rhein (near Basel), the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, and the ICI Curatorial Hub in New York. Together with Caroline Wüthrich she published the previous book Hong Kong In-Between (Park Books and MCCM Creations, 2015).

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A survey of 15 years of urban research by Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul .

Introduces concrete design principles derived from Borio's findings .

Offers guidance for urban space analysis and the translation of findings into new urban designs .

Attractive book design by Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

60 colour, 40 b/w illustrations

By: Géraldine Borio
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 220mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1.113kg
ISBN: 9783038602972
ISBN 10: 3038602973
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 29 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Géraldine Borio is co-founder of the Hong Kong-based research and design firm Borio Lab and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at renowned venues such as the Vitra Design Museum In Weil am Rhein (near Basel), the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale, and the ICI Curatorial Hub in New York. Together with Caroline Wüthrich she published the previous book Hong Kong In-Between (Park Books and MCCM Creations, 2015).