Projects in  Hong Kong 2016
FALL 2016
“In the guise of urban design, the exercise of architecture on a very large scale might bridge the gap between a single building and its disintegrating urban context” - Reyner Banham
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​RECONSIDERING ARCHITECTURE
AS A MEGA-STRUCTURAL URBAN
INFRASTRUCTURE:
Adopting mega-structures as the new
urban form, how can we re-make our
city in which vehicles and pedestrian
can co-exist in harmony? In what
form can architecture be conceived
as a piece of urban infrastructure?​

VERY SYP
SITE: SAI YING PUN
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HA Wing Hay, Lilian
LAU Kin Yip, Ken
SO Kiu Yin, Safina

“Cities should generate, reflect and activate life, their structure organized to precipitate life and movement.”- Archigram





RECONSIDERING A DISTRICT AS A SUPERBLOCK:
In giving the streets back to pedestrians and keeping cars out of the site, what is Hong Kong’s answer to Barcelona’s Superblock? How can we strengthen the sense of life in cities?

THE SAI WAN NETWORK
SITE: SAI YING PUN
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WANG Ying
WONG Cheuk Hin, Cyrus
WONG Nga Suet, Emily

“We have the opportunity of forming our new city world into an imageable landscape: visible, coherent and clear. It will require a new attitude on the part of the city dweller, and a physical reshaping of his domain into forms which... can stand as symbols for urban life.” - Kevin Lynch



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RE-CREATION OF A CITY IMAGE:
INJECTION OF “NODES” IN A NETWORK OF “PATHS”
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In an existing network of paths, how can we re-conceive and re-inhabit our city through the introduction of “nodes”? In transforming a “bridge” (path) into a “park” (node), what is Hong Kong’s answer to New York’s High Line?

ADMIRALTY CONVERGENCE
SITE: ADMIRALTY
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CHAN Yin Fung, Jacky
HUANG Zhenrong, Claire
LI Zhongqi, Cheer

Everyday Urbanism domesticates urban space... So the urban environment, instead of being a relatively brutal and not very pleasant place, becomes more like the interior; it becomes a softer place that is more inhabitable.” - Margaret Crawford


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​DISPLAY BOARD OF EVERYDAY SPACES:
FROM EMBEDDED LIFE WITHIN BUILDINGS
TO EXHIBITED LIFE IN THE CITY
With homogeneous and dull-looking factory buildings as the backdrop in Kwun Tong, can we anticipate more heterogeneity and vibrancy in the urban environment by exposing what is happening inside buildings?
As opposed to bringing street life into buildings, can we extend building life into streets?
How can we imagine post-industrial areas in the 21st century?

KWUN TONG VIBRANT MIX
SITE: KWUN TONG
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LI See Yeuk, Grace
MAN Ngai Fung

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