Projects in Hong Kong 2017
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FALL 2017
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“Cities should generate, reflect and activate life, their structure organized to precipitate life and movement.” - Archigram
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PLACE MAKING IN NON-PLACE: In Hong Kong, we are facing shortage of land. We reclaim the harbour and cut the mountain as the solution. However, is there an alterative? Can we reclaim the land occupied by the infrastructure for living habitat? |
HABITAT INTERCHANGE
SITE: SHEUNG WAN
CHAN Lok Yiu, Yoyo
HO Jun Yin, Bosco
LEE Ka, Anthony
LEE Ka Ying, Karen
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“Cities should generate, reflect and activate life, their structure organized to precipitate life and movement.”- Archigram
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Releasing the space to pedestrian: Central is so crowdly packed with bridges and road. They are the obstacles blocking pedestrian to walk in the district, and more importantly, reach the waterfront. The right of pedestrian to walk around the city should be upheld in the future. |
FREE CENTRAL
SITE: CENTRAL
FUNG Tsz Yan, Erika
LEE Sum Yu, Gigi
LI Wing Ho, Captain
NG Siu Fung, Fonia
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“We are seeking the living city. [...] The present gulf between people, between the community and the designer may well be eventually bridged by the do-it-yourself interchangeable kit of parts”. - Archigram
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RECLAIMING THE PUBLIC SPACE IN CENTRAL DISTRICT FOR SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF INDIVIDUALS: The Central District in Hong Kong represents the controversy of public space use, public access borders and infrastructural conditions. Public Hub Hong Kong is haunting for a solution to reevaluate the public identity in modern urbanism of megapolis, considering the public individual activities. Can public hubs define the unique identity of urbanism in modern megapolices such as the city of Hong Kong? |
PUBLIC HUB HONG KONG
SITE: CENTRAL
STARYGINA Svetlana
WANG Xuelu
LYU Hangda
ZHU Jiazheng
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“Leading architects of the 21st century need to be able to look beyond what architects can normally do or think of…For instance, people in the 1960s predicted that the world would become completely digitalized, like today, but we still could not imagine it. It is not a revolution but a paradigm shift. Those who can foresee the coming changes become leaders. If you just follow the trends, you become shortsighted.” - Arata Isozaki
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EXTENSION OF GROUND AND VERTICAL ZONING Lan Kwai Fong in the Central District has an incredible cultural vibrancy but a heavily congested ground. It does not help that governmental zoning is plan-restricted and does not address the vertical complexity of programmatic arrangement in Central. Can multi-level urbanism resolve the problem with a paradigm shift of new infrastructural development? How can we bring the street vibrancy from the “ground” to above? What is the meaning of ground? What stops the street? How should vertical space and infrastructure be adapted to the future development? |
INCREMENTAL DATUM AGGLOMERATE
SITE: LAN KWAI FONG
CHEUNG Chun Hin, Alex
LAU Kok Yi, Joey
SO Cheuk Ying, Sharon
CHAN Zheng Nian
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