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GARY CHANG’S METAMORPHIC HONG KONG APARTMENT

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Gary Chang recently led a workshop in Milan centered on design responses to urban density where he discussed his lifelong endeavor of micro-space design. The architect/ designer discussed his first formal project as a series of drawings wherein he imagined alleviating his cramped childhood apartment and how the dense population and spatial needs of Hong Kong have inspired his work. That same childhood apartment has since become his life-long laboratory for the experimentation and implementation of multi-tasking, often mechanical rooms. The compact, 32 square meter metamorphic apartment features walls that move on tracks that reveal a large kitchen, guest bedroom, library, dining room, laundry room, and full spa. Cool news, the the consolidated space features technologically advanced measures, like the ability to control most of the apartment from a smartphone. ‘I don’t mean this from an angle of eco-design, but somehow we touch on that by simple reduction. how big do you need a volume at different times? this is a very good example of flexibility in the sense of  blurring the boundary of public and private, or simply [architecture as] a device able to adapt for change. ‘- Gary Chang 

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walls of thousands of CDs move to reveal a spa bathtub

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(left): a couch with a murphy bed as a backboard
(right): view of the pulled-out bed

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a living area becomes a kitchen

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