Oceans protect biodiversity and help stabilise climate. More is to be done to save our ecosystem’s precious waters.
PrayaEdge reinstates an IG popular promenade but empowered with a mission to educate on change for the environment.
As a new generation landscape-architecture responding to the context, PrayaEdge combines public space, library and exhibition venue under an environmental theme. Access to the precious social resource of waterside public space is through a gateway flanked by an eco-themed library and an exhibition component, elevating leisure with an intuitive educational possibility.
Visitors to PrayaEdge can enjoy the spaces as normal (but the experience is off kilter with sarcasm) - visitors can stroll at the water edge (but next to rubbish), or appreciate installations (but glorified with waste). The defamiliarisation is designed as a wake-up call to environmental urgency.
The exhibition space underground is conceived as a giant immersive filtration and desalination machine, powered by Hong Kong’s first tidal power system embracing it. The visitors’ journey within the “machine”, from littered to clean water zones, demonstrates an environmentally responsible solution.
