Looking for the Voids

What can urban interstitial spaces in major cities in Asia teach us for the expansion of architectural practice?

In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of insideoutside, publicprivate, as well as legalillegal.

The concrete design principles derived from analyzing urban typologies in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and from engaging with residents and their informal appropriation of such semi-private urban spaces, can offer useful tools to architects and urban designers alike.

• Die Ergebinsse von 15 Jahren experimenteller urbanistischer Forschung in Bangkok, Hong Kong und Seoul
• Stellt aus den gewonnenen Erkenntnissen abgeleitete konkrete Gestaltungsprinzipien für urbane Räume vor
• Bietet Hilfestellung zur Analyse urbaner Räume und Zwischenräume und zur Umsetzung der Ergebnisse in konkreten Projekten

• Attraktive Buchgestaltung durch Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

  Autorentext

  Géraldine Borio ist Gründerin des Forschungs- und Architekturbüros Borio Lab in Hong Kong und Assistenzprofessorin an der Architekturfakultät der University of Hong Kong.

  Klappentext

  In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Géraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside-outside, public-private, as well as legal-illegal.

The concrete design principles derived from analyzing urban typologies in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and from engaging with residents and their informal appropriation of such semi-private urban spaces, can offer useful tools to architects and urban designers alike.