2018 - Border as Architecture / 2047 - Architecture as Border

In 2018, the ‘Co-Location’ Joint Checkpoint Scheme governing the rail-link between Hong Kong and mainland China has radically changed the concept of border: the border is no longer a line drawn on a map but thickened and dimensioned as architecture and space.

In 2047, the political border between Hong Kong and China will be dissolved: how could architecture act against the political and resist the de-bordering? How could space itself reform the border? The drawing describes the transformation that will happen during this process of de-bordering at the Hong Kong checkpoint of the rail link.

When a border is conceptualized at an architectural scale, it exhibits spatial characteristics and generates architectural implications. The contradictions in these scenarios become a spatial manifesto for the socio-political relationship between Hong Kong and China.