Comments on: Control room of Hong Kong international airport by Design Systems

By: Alex Choi

Alex Choi — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:37:35 +0000

This is a creative and beautiful project. I’m a HK based interior designer as well. Here is hardly to convince the client and thus build a project like this, especially for a local designer. Most people here would rather like to see and talk super deluxe or furniture showroom like showflats. i appreciate the effort and creativity very much and looking froward to see more interesting HK projects.

By: lansy

lansy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:09 +0000

非常好的作品，很漂亮

By: xing

xing — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:51:29 +0000

Good to see other design approach in Hong Kong rather than the over-designed shopping malls and super deluxe residential showflat.

At least somethings different in this commercial city. Can see some efforts spent in this job. Good try and keep going.

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:29:30 +0000

The ceiling and lighting design is not to prevent glare on the monitors. The dropped-down ceiling panels are orienated to the veiwing direction of the operators, so that when the operators looking up at the projection screens, they will not see any direct light source.

I think it is a quite smart design and looks very cool.

Not very agree with Rori’s comment, seems a bit harsh but shallow. Sorry for being critical and my english writing quality is also very poor.

By: Rori

Rori — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:05:57 +0000

Rather disappointing (being from HK, I wanted this project to carry the same quality as the others published by Dezeen but was quickly discouraged).

The overall diagram does not have the clarity other Dezeen published projects have. While wood, aluminum and glass are all came from the modern material palettes, the applications appear muddy. The most interesting aspect is the manager’s location in relation with the ceiling. However, it appears that all the operators are facing away from the manager.

While the ceiling is interesting. It’s story would be more convincing if it was about acoustics (recessed indirect lights reduce glare, not a light source on a mostly vertical surface. I would imagine the operators will receive glare from lights further behind them on their monitors.

The aluminum panels will probably serve well as acoustical panels but it does not appear to be the simplest system ( I believe good design is to simplify).

Finally, the writing quality is rather poor in the “information from Design Systems” section. Some phrases and sentences make more sense after being translated into Chinese.

Sorry for being critical. I had a high expectation when I saw the heading.