“窗外晾杉 Drying Clothes Outside the Window” / 香港公共屋邨建築之形 Hong Kong Public Housing Architecture Forms / SML.20130208.7D.21399

Leaving the clothes outside the window to air-dry is a Chinese specialty. I didn’t use to think much of it until I have traveled the world and noticed that no one else does this except people in Hong Kong.

 

So many people does this that metal racks are often built in on the building itself. If the building does not come with a rack to hang anything, people in Hong Kong will hack their way out to crate racks themselves.

 

Pictured here is the facade of a public housing development in Hong Kong. You can see that several households have decided to create their own outdoor structures. Drying clothes outside the window requires some skills though—it is easy to lose clothes this way, and clearly one of the towels (or tshirt?) has fallen to the floor below.

 

These outside hanging racks are not unique to public housing either, they are seen everywhere. In more affluent neighbourhoods the racks are usually installed outside of the maids’ quarters.

 

Crazyisgood. Hong Kong Specialty.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-02-08 11:10:48 GMT+0800

+ Dimensions: 5087 x 3391

+ Exposure: 1/400 sec at f/5.6

+ Focal Length: 280 mm

+ ISO: 1000

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 7D

+ Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + EF 1.4x Extender III

+ GPS: 22°25'16" N 114°13'33" E

+ Location: 中國香港馬鞍山錦豐苑J座錦蘭閣 中国香港马鞍山锦丰苑J座锦兰阁 Kam Fung Court Block J Kam Lan House, Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, China

+ Serial: SML.20130208.7D.21399

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Series: 形 Forms, Crazyisgood

 

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