Desire to Fly – Idea Cloud
Napp Studio has designed the interiors for the Idea Cloud exhibition, a bamboo-woven cloud structure showcasing old archives and artefacts of the old Kai Tak Airport in Kowloon City, Hong Kong.
Idea Cloud is the grand opening exhibition pavilion for a new mixed-use development, Airside, located on the site of the iconic former Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport in the middle of downtown Kowloon City.
It showcased both the historical archive of Hong Kong aviation history, as well as commissioned artwork by local artists on different interpretations of flying in a woven structure out of bamboo.
Spatialising the exhibition theme 'Desire' (to fly) into comical idea clouds, the atrium exhibition pavilion is composed of multiple intersecting (idea) bubbles.
The journey begins with a gentle slope as the runway axis, with a number of platforms on both sides branching out.
Arriving at the atrium with a generous scale, natural light floods in from the skylight above, casting shadows of the bamboo weave.
Each bubble of the cloud is woven by horizontal and two off-centred vertical layers of bamboo strips, supported by a minimal set of steel arc inner structure, to achieve the multi-spherical form.
This project has been shortlisted in the exhibition interior category of Dezeen Awards China 2025.
Studio: Napp Studio
Studio: Desire to Fly – Idea Cloud
Credits: Benny Au, Teresa Chan, Amazing Angle Design, Hattrick Creative and Nan Fung Group