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20

Nov
2023
CPD Seminar on CPD Research Fund 2021 Awardees Sharing - Quarantine Tourism: Urban Buffer Zone for COVID Tourism

 

Date: 20.11.2023 (Monday)

Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Language: Cantonese supplemented with English

Delivery: Hybrid

Venue: HKIA premises (19/F, One Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong) and via Zoom

Quota: In-person: 60 (First-come-first served), Zoom: 1000

Commissioned by the HKIA CPD Research Fund, “Quarantine Tourism” reframes the problem posed by the pandemic as an architectural opportunity – To imagine a hybrid typology combining tourism & quarantine that forms Pandemic Buffer Zones in the urban-rural fringe: facilitating temporary occupation of meditative ‘staycation’ and doubling as quarantine facilities during pandemics.

Through mapping research, case studies of quarantine establishments in Hong Kong, as well as past and foreign isolation typologies, this research formulates proposals for the hybrid programme of “Quarantine Tourism” in the urban-rural setting. With many quarantine facilities unused after the winding down of pandemic, the research also explores reimagining the existing quarantine centres at Penny's Bay for Post-COVID. Interview transcripts, photos, diagrams, and models invites the audience to reassess the quarantine centres and brainstorm for their afterlife.

 

Speaker:

Mr Marco Siu

Deputy Chairperson

HKIA Planning and

Urban Design Committee

 

Mr Brian Lee

Senior Architectural Designer

Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd

 

Ms Sharon Kan

Urban Planner/ Project Associate

PolyU JC Design Institute for Social

 

Mr Andy Kong

Independent Architectural Designer

 

Moderator:

Mr John Wong

HKIA CPD Committee