PROJECTS: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, PUBLIC SPACE, INSTALLATION, PUBLICATIONS, FILM
INDUSTRIAL FOREST
Spring Workshop resides in Wong Chuk Hang, the quintessential post-industrial Hong Kong landscape which is now transforming rapidly into [...]
NIKE FLYKNIT COLLECTIVE
ESKYIU was invited to join the Nike Flyknit Collective as Curators for Greater China, and also to design an interactive installation [...]
INSTANT CULTURE BOOK
Hong Kong’s rapid transformation has produced a culture of the “instant,” where desires, market forces, global-local exchanges, technologies, and a need [...]
AQUA INDUSTRY
AQUA INDUSTRY is a site specific installation at the water fountain of the Kowloon Park, Hong Kong, commissioned by the 2011-2012 HK SZ Biennale [...]
BYOB (BRING YOUR OWN BIENNALE)
‘Bring Your Own Biennale’ (BYOB) is a catchphrase, framework, and approach envisioned to stimulate our collective role in the creation of an innovative [...]
NUTRITIOUS
AA Inter One sent 3form all of our garbage and immediately got it back again – slightly repackaged, but significantly transformed. Thousands of [...]
DICED NATURE
Diced Nature focuses on the displacement of nature and the naturalization process that occurs in the kitchen. The installation utilizes a real-time [...]
TWELVE HANGING GARDENS
A fashion museum in dynamic dialogue with the metropolis and nature. The museum refuses to be timeless, just as fashion has never been constant [...]
HYGIENE, ART, NATURE
Contemporary photography is displayed to enhance the dialogue between nature, health, functional aesthetics and spatial experience for occupants [...]
CHINATOWN WORK
Chinatown WORK, 2006 is an interactive public art installation for multiple sites in Chinatown. Silhouettes of pedestrians mix the footage of interior spaces [...]
LINEAR LANDSCAPES
Transportation infrastructure accounts for 5% of all land in Hong Kong, occupying a significant amount of territory within the urban areas of the city [...]
HOUSING NATURE
Hong Kong is quintessentially an urban conglomerate of skyscrapers, a city where more than 3,000 buildings are over 90 meters tall. Even New York comes in [...]
ATMOSPHERIC ABERDEEN
Atmospheric Aberdeen consists of an urban greenhouse for high density collective living composed of a series of open-air apartments. Solidity and [...]
URBAN PASTORAL
Urban Pastoral continues the intricate dialogue formed between nature and artifice in Hong Kong. The existing density of Hong Kong relates back to the 1895 [...]
SINO
The digital collage combines footage of the electrical obsession and consumption of various global cities with profound waterfront skyline. The work examines [...]
BRICK BY BRICK
10,000 Lego bricks, 240 primary students, 27 university students, and a wide assortment of teachers gathered for “Building Asia Brick by Brick: My Ideal City” [...]
FERRAGAMO
eskyiu was provided with a gallery of historically significant shoes by Ferragamo in their Florentine palazzo. An animation evolved, fashioned out of [...]
MEDIATED LABOUR
Hong Kong has always been a strategic frontier serving as a mediator between China and the rest of the world. Now more than ever, Hong Kong acts as [...]
RESOURCE VITRINE: A DIDACTIC DIORAMA
ReSource Vitrine captures our current research in architecture by illustrating a prototypical community, a ‘Farming Factory’, which forms part of a network [...]
ACADEMIC
Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu have taught at many academic institutions, from Princeton and Columbia to the Architectural Association [...]
AESTHETICS . ETHICS
Under the main theme of ‘NOT GUILTY’; Designers worked under the theme of “AESTHETICS . ETHICS: designing with innocence ” at Victoria Prison [...]
LIGHTS UP
Transformed by seven light installations, LIGHTS UP examined the critical history of a 150-year old open-air market in a dense urban [...]
DRAGON LIGHTS
Experimenting with lighting, we designed interactive installations for Dragon Garden, a collaboration between the academic community and The Trust [...]
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Writings and publications featuring ESKYIU projects, text contributions to various magazines, books, journals on design, research, culture, criticism [...]
WKCDialogues
WKCDialogues, www.wkcdialogues.org, is a film-based platform ESKYIU created to allow for an active dialogue and archive concerning culture within [...]