Silver A' Design Award Winner 2023
Entering this immersive exhibition space, visitors encounter a vast rectangular environment approximately three stories in height, dominated by enormous digital display walls that wrap around the space creating a luminous enclosure of saturated color and moving imagery. Beginning at the observation level in the foreground, a horizontal glass balustrade extends across the full width, its transparent surface allowing unobstructed views into the main exhibition hall below. Several visitors stand along this railing, their figures appearing as dark silhouettes against the brilliant screens beyond—one person in a flowing skirt at left, another in casual attire at center, others scattered across the viewing platform in relaxed contemplative postures. The floor beneath and beyond them glows with projected imagery in cool teals and warm corals, depicting what appears to be topographical or urban mapping information that visitors can walk upon and explore. The dominant rear wall rises perhaps forty feet, covered entirely with digital displays showing large geometric clusters of color—blocks of cool lavender and periwinkle blue at upper left suggesting ice or morning sky, warm amber and golden rectangles at lower left like autumn leaves or honeyed light, vibrant cyan and turquoise squares at center reminiscent of tropical waters, and intense magenta and hot pink rectangles at right evoking sunset or bougainvillea blooms. At center, an orange rectangular panel displays an aerial photograph with text reading Culture and Sports. Suspended from the black industrial ceiling grid, angular sculptural forms descend at various heights—triangular and trapezoidal shapes bearing fragmented photographic imagery bordered by bold geometric color in sunshine yellow, vermillion red, and forest green. The overall sensation is one of being enveloped within pure colored light, cool and energizing, with the industrial black ceiling providing grounding contrast above.
Envisioning Beyond Legacy is a multimedia exhibition to showcase the planning and infrastructure achievements of Hong Kong over the last 25 years, as well as the future development directions. Interactive installations and games are largely adopted to drive self-exploration of information by the public on their own initiative and provide an immersive visiting experience. Also, the inclusive design creates a barrier-free environment for everyone in the community.