消失的巷仔 Disappearing Back Alley
Neighbourhood: Wan Chai
Project Date: 2022
Working Partners: Oi Kwan Barbers,
Key Topics Explored: New & Old Integration, Art Tech & Data
Disappearing Back Alley - Anywhere Door to the Neighbourhood is an exhibit featured in Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture 2022 “Seeds of Resilience, Re(dis)covering The City”, under the theme of diversity and inclusion. The exhibit was showcased at the North Point (East) Passenger Ferry Pier from September to November 2022.
In this exhibit, we brought forward a virtual neighbourhood experience to arouse public interest in disappearing back-alley store culture through visualisation and interactions.
The exhibit houses two experiences:
1) 1:10 AR model,
2) 1:1 full-size AR world of different 360-degree view back alleys by walking through the “Anywhere Door”.
By scanning AR mark to activate the webapp or dedicated app on mobile devices, triggering “Anywhere Doors” to appear, which lead to designated virtual back-alley stores. We are collaborating with Mark Lau from Oi Kwan Barber, a back-alley store in the historic Spring Garden Street of Wan Chai to curate the exhibition contents.
「消失的巷仔｜通往鄰里的隨意門」是2022 港深城市\建築雙城雙年展（香港）—— 集籽種城 的參展展品之一，在2022年9月至11月期間於北角（東）渡輪碼頭展出。
是次展品是個視覺實驗，與愛群理髮合作，透過網絡應用程式（由QR碼/AR標記觸發）的虛擬鄰里體驗引起公眾對式微巷仔店舖文化的關注。公眾可於程式中的「隨意門」走訪灣仔不同後巷360度的AR世界，參觀特定後巷店鋪空間。
