Hong Kong Assembly: Permanent Impermanence

A protest is often entangled with a negative connotation of it being a disrupter, creating chaos and disorder. This project seeks to look at architecture’s role in capturing the ephemeral event and challenges the negative connotations of the event.

The architectural proposal takes the form of a Hong Kong embassy- a place that is ceasing to exist.

The outcome is speculated through two-acts of manifestation based on the protest: The deconstruction and the restoration. The first act is a collective manifestation of the protest onto the context, form, and system. The elaboration of the chaos and disorder onto the architecture admits and accepts it as an emergence of an urban fabric. The restoration of the aftermath of destruction is the final outcome that proposes a reality that arrived at a state of peaceful celebration in the indifferences. While Hong Kong is not a country of its own, the project proposes an embassy that operates for the exiles to assist Hong Kongers process foreign matters and activism in Melbourne.

The architecture itself is a form of protest towards its site and the Hong Kong government. It possesses the spirit of the protesters that seeks a permanent impact. The project affirms the architecture role that embodies a power, the power to give the ephemeral a status and the disorder a control.