Kiang Malingue

The project consists in a typical Hong Kong 60s housing “Tong Lau” adapted as a “vertical” art gallery. The original domestic nature is retained, bringing “human scale” to the exhibition spaces and striking a balance between the “home” characteristics and the expression or needs of an art gallery. The pre-existing organisation framed the new program: the former ground floor shop became a front “main” gallery open to the public, the first floor received outdoor and indoor areas where a kitchen and a garden are implemented, the upper floors turned into 2 exhibition “cubes” (thanks to the most complex spatial/technical gesture deployed that is the removal of slabs), one at the second floor as a purposely archetypal white cube, and one at the fourth floor more in line with the global raw nature of the project. Facilities as storage and technical rooms are positioned at the fifth floor and roof. For all interventions, the transformation traces are assumed, visible, and while expressive, in the end consciously and carefully “diluted” within the pre-existing context to form a consistent and balanced whole. The Kiang Malingue headquarters is the eighth collaboration between BEAU and Lorraine and Edouard Kiang-Malingue. Through the years they developed common ambitions to challenge and widened the identity and experience of art spaces along with contemporary challenges related to cultural and environmental sustainability.

Photos courtesy of BEAU ARCHITECTS

LOCATION
10 Sik On Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

TRANSPORTATION
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GUIDED TOUR
Date: 28 Sep 2024 (Sat)
Time: Session 1: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM / Session 2 : 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Language: English
Led by Charlotte Lafont-Hugo &Gilles Vanderstocken, BEAU ARCHITECTS
Capacity: 20


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