Feeling High

SPARK proudly present:

With over 6.6 billion population and more than 50% population in world’s cities, how our cities tackle the balance between desire on space and land resources in the future is questionable. The scale of cities is insignificant when compared to their wider landscape context.

High rise development appears to be one of the most practical solutions, but what does high rise mean? From the developments of Manhattan, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, etc., planners, architects, socialists and urbanists have been arguing about what is the best livable built environment for the human being for decades. Some people are scared of high rise developments because they reduce green and open space, sunshine and sky; while some are enjoying the sky garden, efficient mass transportation and 24 hours life style.

High rise development is always a controversial issue especially London. There are a lot of discussions on opening up London’s skyline to meet the competitiveness from globalization while conserving London’s unique historical cityscape. Can London keep its skyline and global competitiveness at the same time or can London develop high rise buildings without destroying its skyline? What does high rise mean? How can it affect our lives? It is hard to judge how high rise built environment may benefit or threaten our lifestyle and comment on it without our own personal experience.

The event aims to create a platform to push visitors into reflections on high rise built environment by providing a new fresh visual experience. It will question and provoke our conventional perceptions on high rise built environments.

• Party
28-6 | 1630 -

• ‘The Shooters Fifteen’ Design Forum
28/6 | 1800
Unconventional way to throw our audience with an hour of visual and verbal stimulants, from an exciting mix of speakers. Join the debate on High-Rise with
- Colin Fouriner: Co-architect of the Kunsthaus Graz; Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
- Yusuke Obuchi: Co-Director, Design Research Lab at Architectural Association
- Christoph Lueder: Principal Lecturer; Acting BA Architecture Course Director, Kingston University
- Karl Sharro: KPF Architects, ManTowNHuman & The future cities project
- Luis Suarez: Director of ARQ EStudio

• Outdoor Installation
28/6 – 20/7 | 1200-1800
Urban Blind Spot – Under the skin of high rise.

• An Overpopulated Exhibition
28-29/6 | 1200-1800
Think you know it all about high-rise? We present you with some of the most high profiles projects in our City and question on your conventional perceptions. Key Exhibitors include KPF, Pollard Thomas Edwards architect, Estudio-ArQ (Colombia) and Poly.m.u.r, Anthony Lau, Rachel Joyce, Noa Haim, 21 (Constanza Hagemann, Lydia Kim, Joao Bravo Da Costa) and 09 (Thomas Tong).

• Collaborators of 'Urban Blind Spot' Installation
School of Architecture, Kingston University
YS Groundwork

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