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Suitcase House
A Gary Chang architectural project on ultimate adaptability
by Gary Chang

ISBN 962-86816-9-9
295mm (W) x 135mm (H)
150 pages. Full-color.
Softcover with plastic slip.
Bilingual (English and Chinese)

HK$200 (inclusive of delivery)
US$34.5 + postage fee (outside Hong Kong delivery)

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The Suitcase House is a simple demonstration of the desire for ultimate adaptability in pursuit of proscenium for infinite scenarios and a plane of sensual pleasure.

A 40-metre long rectangular empty space built on the strata of woods and series of sliding and folding partitions forming a matrix of openings with bedrooms, bathrooms, cabinet, trunks, kitchens underneath the floor. Does this dwelling concept really work for living? How much does it relate to the typical Hong Kong values? Dubbed as 'a playful game', Suitcase House is one of the most debatable architectural projects among the 12 houses built by 12 Asian architects at the Artists Commune on the Great Wall of China and the most radical architectural housing ever seen in China.

Casting a question mark on the proverbial image of the house, the book Suitcase House has brought together designers, architects, culture & lifestyle writers in two discussion groups taken place separately at Chang's highly exposed 30-square metre apartment in Hong Kong and in Beijing to rethink the notions of intimacy, privacy, spontaneity and flexibility in housing design, space, lifestyle living, the architecture as an art, as well as a recollection of Hong Kong flats in the old days where many households and dozens of people are commonly shared in a small living space.

The book also comprises of writings contributed by Taiwanese architect professor Ng and Hong Kong-based French architect professors Valerie Portefaix and Laurent Gutierrez.

The Suitcase House project has recently been awarded in ar + d award 2003 in United Kingdom.

About the Creator
Gary Chang - Born in 1962 in Hong Kong, graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong in 1987 and founded EDGE in 1994.

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