MOVING PICTURES
TEAM: Carson Leung Ka Shut, Gordon Li Pung Chin – Hong Kong – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Moving Pictures
The design of racetrack is necessarily standardized, while its surrounding structure is formalized in an extent that it provides oppressing training experience.
The moving experience of a runner in a formalized sport ground, is in great contrast with the dynamic experience of one walking inside a traditional Chinese garden in which the scene continuously changes with one’s moving step.
Traditional Chinese garden design emphasizes the idea of having ways but no rules. This essence of design corresponds with the idea of informality, in which would be the key of transforming a sport ground.
Chinese tradition Garden + Sport ground = ?
Runners connect the visual experience of landscape with their muscle memory and mentality. Calmness beside pond, focus towards framed picturesque, acceleration along trees lying abreast.
Practicing in such a space, is to save the landscape deep down in one’s mind. If garden once brought you calmness, calmness would recall you garden, wherever you go for race.