Jason Hilgefort
Jason Hilgefort’s 25+ years of work harnesses the myriad of systems that are the backbone of our shared habitats – the movement of people, the flow of natural networks, and the emerging digital interfaces – and coalesces them into an inextricably interwoven beautiful whole. The resulting formal expressions reinterpret the heritage of their localities, speak to the contemporary cultural conditions, and frame the emergent futures at hand. Jason has won best built landscape in Asia 2020, been a finalist for Best Young World Designer 2018, and built on 6 continents in the last decade. Recently his work has been exhibited in - New York, Sao Paolo, Rotterdam, Madrid, Venice, Istanbul, Cape Town, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Melbourne. His writings have been published with Routledge, EPFL, AD, Architecture Review, Domus, Volume and more. Jason delivered lectures ranging from Harvard GSD, TU Delft, NUS, Asia Business Council, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Swiss Architecture Museum, Sustainable Innovation and Development Forum, Future Cities+Future Technologies Conference, etc. He founded L+CC, IAU, Aformal Academy, and is a professor at HKU.
Land.scape - integration of landforms within the natural world
Hongqiao Park won the 2020 World Architecture Festival Best Landscape Design, and was one of the 10 most visited places in all of China during the 2021 Chinese New Year
‘Air Park’ is the longest Green Roof in the Netherlands at 2km of length. It is an adaptation of a former station and train line to an elevated community open space.
Civilization - frameworks for a society and culture
Stapleton Sustainable Masterplan is the largest brownfield redevelopment in USA at 2,000 hectares. The former airport is a mixed-use community with 1.5 million sqm commercial, 12,000 units affordable housing, 30,000 residents, 12,000 jobs, 500 ha parks
Barking Riverside Redevelopment is the largest housing development in London, the 180 ha former brownfield site sits along the River Thames and provides the area with 11,000 homes, 22,000 sqm retail, schools, and a network of parks linking ecological systems.
+Habitats - environments for humans, animals, plants and organisms
KMC Corporate Headquarters is a Ecological and Socially Responsible Building in CyberCity, Hyderabad
Hathigaon is a culturally sensitive and animal friendly Elephant Village design for the pachyderms, their caretakers and their families to live together
+Innovation - the application of fresh methodologies
N3, Ningde New Nature hybridizes living, working, tourism and food production to form a new take on research + development centers, and on potentials of technology in the rural
Kidnetic Garden Installation at PMQ 2021 explored the potential dynamic future of public spaces through the collaboration of plants, AI, and humans.
+RE:Search - regarding the search for knowledge and the sharing of it
Venice Biennale 2021 Installation Unsettled Urbanism the merging of physical and digital to generate fluid public spaces
The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area, a Routledge Publication 2021
Compositions - creative works done collectively
Aformal Academy as part of Shenzhen Biennale. Collaboration with artists, friends, and the community
Community Engagement with Sustainable Lantau Office for new methodologies and strategies for Rural Regeneration