The Hong Kong Flower Show is the city’s premier annual horticultural event at Victoria Park. Each year, government departments are invited to create thematic landscape displays that showcase their work, values, and contributions to the community through imaginative floral and greenery installations. Commissioned by the Drainage Services Department (DSD), this project was developed in 2023.

Design Concept

Taking inspiration from the undulating contours of natural watercourses, our design concept introduces two elegantly serpentine structures that serve as the backbone for an array of modular planting units. These curvilinear forms are not merely aesthetic; they are deliberately engineered to support the verdant tapestry that will drape over their framework.

A deliberate choreography of linear vegetation arrangements within the planters instills a dynamic sense of movement, echoing the perpetual flow of a stream. This vegetative motion is not only a tribute to the landscape’s inherent rhythms but also a nod to the studio’s aim of capturing and articulating the essence of motion within a static medium.

The raised, riverine forms are conceived to orchestrate a symphony of spatial experiences. As visitors engage with the space, their perspectives shift—sometimes they are observers looking up to the elevated gardens, other times they find themselves enveloped in a floral embrace. Each viewpoint offers a distinct interaction with the structures, ensuring that the journey through the landscape is one of discovery and enchantment. The interplay of form, vegetation, and topographical manipulation aims to create a dialogue between the viewer and the viewed, between the landscape and those who move within it.