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Stefan Canham
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Portraits from Above - Hong Kong's Informal Rooftop Communities
Hong Kong seems to be a city that is well-organized and with distinctive architectural styles. However, on the rooftop of its high rise buildings some informal rooftop constructions can be found. – Strange enough to see the contrast of a well organized city-planning topped – in its literal sense – by ‘informal rooftop communities’, an outbreak of anarchy amidst Hong Kong’s order. The two artists, Toronto-based architect Rufina Wu and Hamburg photographer Stefan Canham, put a focus on these buildings. While Stefan Canham documents it by taking photographs, Rufina Wu does a research by using architectural tools: she reconstructs the existing buildings by making supplementary blueprints - in a way it looks as if the supplementary drawings try to bring order into the anarchy … &h...
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Hong Kong seems to be a city that is well-organized and with distinctive architectural styles. However, on the rooftop of its high rise buildings some informal rooftop constructions can be found. – Strange enough to see the contrast of a well organized city-planning topped – in its literal sense – by ‘informal rooftop communities’, an outbreak of anarchy amidst Hong Kong’s order.
The two artists, Toronto-based architect Rufina Wu and Hamburg photographer Stefan Canham, put a focus on these buildings. While Stefan Canham documents it by taking photographs, Rufina Wu does a research by using architectural tools: she reconstructs the existing buildings by making supplementary blueprints - in a way it looks as if the supplementary drawings try to bring order into the anarchy … &h...