Tung Chung - Storm

The remarkable way in which storms are perceived in the desert and at sea inspired this environmental installation. From these long, abstract land and sea vistas, storm clouds can be appreciated and enjoyed as they move across the horizon and approach the viewer. Similarly, the water feature offers an abstract, passive, but highly coordinated, experience to the café’s patrons. Created for viewing from the adjacent interior café, the water presentation is augmented by projecting the sound of the water into the café’s interior.

The feature is composed of a large, canted wall of mullion-free glass that supports an expansive exterior water layer. Water is supplied to the top of the glass wall from a floating, horizontal architectural tube, and flows downward in eight separately controlled rows. At low flow rates, the glass surface is coated in a soft, shimmering effect of thousands of tiny “wavelets” that travel downward. At high flow-rates, the glass is assailed by a torrent of overlapping waveforms varying scales.

Monument – Kinetica

Arranged in a perfect grid, one hundred powerfully kinetic jets form an iconic, monumental urban element for Tung Chung Station Development’s Town Square. This cubic water figure, Kinetica, provides urban closure to the plaza’s three-walled space, with a dynamically effervescent, choreographed water statement. The water feature’s surface is flush with the rest of the plaza: It has neither pools carved into the ground nor tall physical barriers. Visitors may closely engage its complex water patterns. Given over to free pedestrian traffic, this space establishes a strong position for the formal presentation of the entertaining water display. The feature’s surface treatment is a field of square pavers that surrounds the water figure in a slightly darker value than the paving common to the plaza, while the stone directly under the water expression is darker yet.