HANNAH at UABB 2019 in Shenzhen/HK

HANNAH exhibits recent work at the UABB 2019, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. HANNAH’s exhibition is named: CONSTRUCTING FUTURE CITIES:

“The future construction of cities is evermore interconnected through material ecology and emergent building technology. There exists a strong link between modern city planning and the industrial scale of its building operations, such as can be observed in the vast proliferation of modular and monotonous highrise tower apartments. In contrast to modernist city planning, the rethinking of standard construction models as a consequence of emerging automated digital strategies can expand possibilities in form, material, and habitation towards locally adaptable systems at the urban scale. To address the increasingly prevalent environmental, economic, and social challenges of our urban environment, new techniques of construction and custom computational protocols such as additive manufacturing or robotic timber construction are essential to advance the urban environment. Such methods of mass-customization offer alternate ways to design and build our city fabric and enable the discovery of novel architectural expression in the process. The exhibition showcases experimental works and full-scale implementations of new fabrication techniques in architectural scale projects as well as speculative housing and construction systems at the urban scale. By leveraging technology and advanced fabrication tools for material, spatial, and cultural experimentation, each project explores fundamentally new material methods, tectonic articulations, and forms of construction. Together, the projects aim to engage in a dialogue about the future construction of urban environments.”