Mapping out the protest sites for history

Architects document the culture and growth of Occupy Central zones

Two expatriate architects have drawn up detailed maps of protest sites that they hope will eventually be exhibited as a historic document of the movement.

The spot where the tear gas was fired, the tent villages, the post-it note wall and study corner are all among the landmarks that will go into a mapping project aimed at documenting the growth of the Occupy Central sites.

While police are expected to clear the Admiralty site tomorrow, expatriate architects Caroline Wuethrich and Geraldine Borio, both from Switzerland, said they were drawn by the unique way the pro-democracy protesters have expressed their messages in objects and space.

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