Enchanting Snowflakes – Installation, Swire Properties , Hong Kong

Starstreet Precinct set up its “Recycle Your Bottles” initiative with 16 limited-time PET plastic bottle recycling points within the Admiralty and Wan Chai neighbourhood and partnered with Hong Kong-based New Life Plastics, a Joint Venture between Baguio, ALBA and Swire Coca-Cola, to process the collected post-consumer PET bottles. Collected PET bottles were shredded and transferred to local 3D printing Dreamcubics to make PET plastic flakes into ecofriendly raw materials - rPET printing filament. After rounds of trial and error, we had remade 2210 PET plastic bottles up to 11 kilometers long rPET printing filament finally. Over 350-piece of 3D print ornaments were printed for the whole installation.

Through circle packing algorithm, a spherical space composed of circular frames of different sizes is covered with translucent white 3D printed snowflakes, embellishing the gateways of Three Pacific Place on Star Street and Wing Fung Street with glowing white light. Visitors can step inside the 3.5-meter-high spherical Snowflake Pavilion and immerse themselves in this sky of falling snowflakes. Moving on, you will find a 7-meter-high Icicle Chandelier sculpture floats on the street corner. The sculpture is composed of diamond-shaped grids and spreads downward layer by layer. Over 50 pieces of 3D printed snowy diamonds lighting ornaments are scattered among the diagrid as if falling snow resting on tree.

While visitors can enjoy the glow of snowy diamonds to linger and feel the festive atmosphere, and appreciate the beauty beyond imagination brought by recycled materials, at the end of the display period, all 3D printed ornaments will be recycled again and remade into rPET filaments to extend the life of the material.