URBANITY by DIARC: HKDI X UOL

E DI T O R ’S N OTE The HKDI Architecture Projects Review offers an overview of student works, workshops and exhibitions from 2012-2016. The first of the series #01 – URBANITY seeks to illustrate the broad range of urban studies and design projects, which mainly focus in obsolete fringe city area or districts encompassing great impact by urban renewal/regeneration. The objective of the publication is to bring the good quality works produced by the school to the public audience and to contribute to our profession’s discussions on the rapid urban and architectural development in local and neighboring cities/countries. Carol Leung Visiting Fellow HKDI

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The urban zone of Hong Kong occupied approximately 24% of 1110 square kilometers land area among the archipelago. One would reveal extremely diverse and complex urban landscape in different districts. After 1997, the urban development mainly followed the commercial value differentiated along the coastline of Victoria Harbour, distance from Central CBD and the metro railway network. Our past Urban Design Studios seek opportunities to investigate some urban areas that had been neglected in past decades but facing fundamental changes in near future by various form of urban renewal. By studying the history, culture, urban fabric, landscape, demography pattern and most importantly human activities in the specific community, students make critical and radical propositions to response to the urban challenges.

Urban Studies in Hong Kong To Kwa Wan To Kwa Wan is identified for this urban study as an urban fringe area after the closure of the Kai Tak Airport in 1997. The area of study ranges from the East Kowloon Corridor up to To Kwa Wan Road’s waterfront facing Kowloon Bay. Major urban features include the Cattle Depot Artist Village, the 13 Streets old tenements houses settlement, Towngas’ compound and nearby industrial buildings, Kowloon City Ferry Pier with adjacent Bus terminus, and the Hoi Sum Park by the waterfront.The urban development in the area are dates back to the 1890’s in association with the industrial village in Hung Hom’s dockyard, as well as more recent Kai Tak aviation and airport’s facilities to the north.The study of the uses and programmes especially at street level revealed a dynamic mix of industrial and residential uses, local shops supplying basic services and goods alongside as extensive network of car repair garages. A wide range of domestic environments was brought to light, following the study of key residential building typologies. The domestic spatial layout design evolved with the changing building and planning laws that have contributed to the higher density building developments.

TO KWA WAN

Shum Shui Po Sham Shui Po has been labelled as one of the poorest districts. The adversity shapes the unique ecology of the area in adaptive living, specialized gadgets and fabric market activities, and the complex urban context. Like an efficient organism, SSP morphs and responds to its surrounding, and each occupant is both a receptor and a reactor. It is compact, complicated, yet highly diversified. ‘Inhabitants’ adaptation starts from spatial poverty, then shifts to spatial re-interpretation and finally generates spatial diversity and re-invention. Through revealing the hidden spatial agenda and new typologies of spatial adaptation, it demonstrates how people in Hong Kong turned the physical limitations into inspirational spatial inventions. Having conducted urban researches of Sham Shui Po, students are then asked to analyze the urban fabric as a stripe and construct a data base in the form of sectional model, revealing a diverse amalgamation of programme, typology and social groups. In this exercise, students are expected to understand and identify the diversity in term of programme, function and community.

UABB (HK) 2013 Studio Coordinator / Exhibition Curator Luis Costa

Wong Chuk Hang Since the early 20th century, Wong Chuk Hang has been developed from the nostalgic originating fishing village of Hong Kong, through the industrial period in the mid-20th century, into a sub-urban residential area of the Southern District. Traces of such transformation are still clearly visible in the WCH area through the great variety of architecture and programs: industrial, institutional, religious, residential, recreation, etc. An interesting juxtaposition of industrial shipyards and luxuries residential, san-pan and yachts set the major sceneries of today’s Aberdeen Channel along Wong Chuk Hang Despite the variety of programs, Wong Chuk Hang possesses a very strong sub-urban identity with considerably large lots of singular use. Today’s Wong Chuk Hang is very fragmented with segregated communities. The introduction of the south rail has triggered a new wave of changes to the historically suburban neighbourhood with more and more commercial and hotel towers replacing the half-century-old factory buildings. The south rail will rapidly urbanize Wong Chuk Hang by bringing new inhabitants and users to the area which will be just 10-15 minutes away from the central district by MTR. While the socio-economic development is bound to transform the built and natural landscape of Wong Chuk Hang, how shall new architecture take form while negotiating between the boundaries / terrain / territories? North Point - Chun Yeung Street Market The projects started with an adventuring exploration of the given context – Chun Yeung Street in North Point. Chun Yeung Street has existed as a wet market since the 30s and still refuses to be extinguished by the modern supermarkets/ shopping malls which have mushroomed in the area. The street was once a community of the Shanghai immigrants and has now developed itself into a mixed community. It is also well known by the tram line which runs straight through the crowd of shoppers. Fanling and Sheung Shui The two chosen sites are located in the Luen Wo Hui, Fanling and Shek Wu Hui, Sheung Shui. The Chinese word “Hui” means a rural/village market, and ironically it also means a ruin site. Apart from buying and selling, in fact the original markets consisted of other programs such as village schools, community facilities, housing and public space for entertainment. Luen Wo Hui was amongst one of the earliest public-private partnership model for new town development in Hong Kong. The two sites are dispositioned closely with the Fanling and Sheung Shui railway stations. The current political and economical changes and challenges in the area due to the CEPA and super-active individual travelers/parallel traders from Mainland China also become a prominent agenda in the discussion and investigation of a sustainable urban regeneration. Students studied the town centre area and develop a masterplan or architecture that could bring transformations to the community, both formally and informally.

Residential

Interlocking

SHEUNG SHUI FANLING Separate Residential and Light Industry

SHUM SHU PO

TO KWA WAN

Provide Communal Space

NORTH POINT

Zoning Control

Interlocking Space Void Interlocking Space Light Industry Communal Space Residential Communal Space

WONG CHUK HANG

Light industry commercial

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Residential skyscrapers with segregated ground floor (podium) in Hong Kong, a phenomenal high dense vertical city, has contributed to an alarming impoverishment of the spatial experience at both the street level and domestic spaces. The attentive study and identification of social issues associated with physical environments marked the starting point for the design of dense mixed-use architectural proposals for the To Kwa Wan neighbourhood. It is identified as an urban fringe area after the closure of the Kai Tak Airport in 1997 and the area of study ranges from the East Kowloon Corridor up to waterfront facing Kowloon Bay. Major urban features include the Cattle Depot Artist Village, the 13 Streets old tenements houses settlement, Town Gas compound and nearby industrial buildings, Kowloon City Ferry Pier with adjacent Bus terminus, and the Hoi Sum Park by the waterfront. The urban development in the area dated back to the 1890â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in association with the industrial village in Hung Hom dockyard, as well as more recent Kai Tak aviation and airportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facilities to the north. The study of the uses and programmes especially at street level revealed a dynamic mix of industrial and residential uses, local shops supplying basic services and goods alongside as extensive network of car repair garages. A wide range of domestic environments was brought to light, following the study of key residential building typologies. The challenge is to re-invent the neighbourhood in high-density development in the area and pose an enquiry into different building typologies of mixed programme towers.

Public area

Common area

Interlocking

Shop-house Units

Circulation

Zoning

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1. Wyler Garden, TKW style floor podium and residential apartment study 2. Spatial configuration of Wyler Garden apartment 3. One strip block of 13 Streets Tenement House. Ground floor garage and subdivided apartment at tenement house 4. Sub-divided Flat studies 5. Housing with sky gardens as public space spiral up to roof level 6. Interlocking Lattice Housing break the linear urban fabric and provides permeable ground level zoning and pocket gardens on multiple levels

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Circulation

Resident to Club House

Public to Library

Public to Cafe

From Club House to Home

Library G/F to 1/F

Cafe to Meeting Rm and Library

Deck connects Program

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1. Re-use Gas Cylinders and link up Cattle Depot to provide a TKW Art Hub 2. Residential tower with interlocking module mix and pocket gardens 3. Hydraulic gas drum revitalised as performance hall

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Section - A3

Section - A4

West Kowloon Corridor

Hai Tan St

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Yu Chau St

Poverty vs Diversity

Hai Tan St

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Yu Chau St

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Yu Chau St

Cheung Sha Wan St

Castle Peak Rd

窮則變

Hai Ta-n St

10 1

Lai Chi Kok Rd

9 Cheung Sha Wan St

Cheung Sha Wan St

Castle Peak Rd

Section - A1

Yu Chau St

Castle Peak Rd

Section - A2

Cheung Sha Wan St

Castle Peak Rd

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SHUM SHUI PO 2016 Venice Biennale A documentation of urban condition in Shum Shui Po, Hong Kong Studio Coordinator / Exhibition Curator Julia Mok

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Historically speaking, Sham Shui Po has continuously been evolving rigorously to the social change. It was a settlement North of the Boundary Street, conveniently located right outside of the British Territory, which has once been treated as the edge of Kowloon and the shelter for poverty and ‘gray area’ activities.

COMPRESSION

A road for car which has shared space for hawker and street seller to retail

INSERTION

This space under the bridge is sharing for three different functions in a same time, rubbish, street seller and cartons.

OVERLAPPING

An overlapping space beside the road which is convenient for people to use as footpaths and electronic recycling.

ADJACENT

A store shared for three different owners to do their business, there are snack shop, laundry and salon.

ADJACENT

LAYERING

SURROUNDING

INSERTION

On the same floor, the musical association was located between advertisement company and steamer shop. They are no connection and relation. It is independent.

In reflected Sham Shui Po’s traditional living style named ‘‘Shop house’’. Shop house are mostly two or three stories high, with a shop on the ground floor for mercantile activity and a residence above the shop

Ther are two different programs were shared one space, which is jewelry shop surrounded the wood shop.

On the same floor, the musical association was located between advertisement company and steamer shop. They are no connection and relation. It is independent.

INSERTION

LAYERING

INSERTION

SURROUNDING

Restaurant Recycling area Washing area

Residential Salon Restaurant

Clothing Back Alley

Before Housing

After Housing

Subdivided Units

Washing area:Use the back alley Recycling area: For sorting out the useful metal cans, glass bottles from the restaurant.

A ShangHai Restaurant at the street level and staircase leading to a salon, and above are the residencial area.

Orignally, a back alley located between two wholesale clothing shops.Then, a wholesale clothing shop was Invited into the back alley And now it forms a row of wholesale clothing shops and the back alley was completely compressed and disappeared

LAYERING

COMPRESSION

ADJACENT

OVERLAPPING

This space using L-shape to seperate two shop, one shop occupied most area of ground floor while another shop occupied the cockloft.

There is a fruit store with rectangle form in 2011. After that, the pork stall is combined with the fruit store which become a combination.

There are the store parallel placed together. And they are selling different type of food. And here are layout of how those shops organizing.

This space shows that the private block is overlapping the public space. Therefore, the entrance becomes the proposed public space that the residents can across there.

Tool store Electronics store

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Nowadays Sham Shui Po continues to translate minimum resources into diverse spaces by the people. The adversity shapes the unique ecology of Shum Shui Po: the adaptation of living, the specialized market activities, and the complex urban context. The unexpected happens with the given speed of adaptation. Sham Shui Po is an efficient organism that morphs and responds to its surrounding, and each occupant is both a receptor and a reactor. The American writer Jane Jacobs described the spirit of urban planning in her book < The Death and Life of Great American Cities > as followings: “You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. ‘Artist’s conceptions’ and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or park malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a natural, continuing flow of life and use.”

Section - B1

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Hai Tan St

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Tai Po Rd

29 Tai Po Rd

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Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Section - B4

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Tai Po Rd

Section - B3

20 Lai Chi Kok Rd

Tai Po Rd

21 Section - B2

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Cheung Sha Wan Rd

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Currently, Sham Shui Po has been the centre of urban renewal controversy: Serving as the last affordable and historical neighbourhood in central Hong Kong, an ‘Urban Renewal Plan’ should be extra careful with the delicate and complex dimension of urban fabric. While the URA uses a top down approach of wipe out and rebuild, showing the highest efficiency but little sensitivity to the community, how can new architecture mediate between the bottom up organism, and the urge of top down hardware renewal? Hong Kong has always been at the ‘Frontier’ to face a ‘Battle’– lack of inhabitable space and its consequential spatial complexity, so it is an urban laboratory for future compact cities.

The sex work place hide in the residential program. The resident is unwelcome the sex work program because the sexual harassment by the sex work customers.

The stall owns try to occupy the street. They put the shelf and shade to create the stall area.

The meat shop and fish shop in the one lock. They can share the customer to each other.

The is the household club of senior housing building including the car park, F&B service, and gym room.

On 122-124 FUK WA STREET, there are 2 stories one-woman brothel, and there are running by a group. Sometimes, the clients will go to the second floor first, when he finish the service, he will go to the first floor to find more service. Or, the cilents will search around two floor and find the service he like.

On Apliu Street 211, there consumer electronics store are using the some pavement to extend their store area. Since most of store in Apliu Street are taking the similar behavior, when people walk around the street, it is not easy to discover.

They are using the one staircase. That staircase is the common area for them.

At Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education, the library, classrooms and reception are clearly to separate to different floor. Each will occupy one floor. Therefore, that make interesting layering in Hong Kong Nang Yan College of Higher Education.

Wai Kee Noodle Cafe was founded in 1957 HONG KONG STYLE

Sport room

Share space Residential

Studyroom

Social corner

Sex shop Chess corner

The two traditional noodle are surrounding the western style cafe

The study room is interlocking with the social corner.

Foot massage

The chess corner is located in the corridor and near many sport rooms.

The different program are layering in the same building

A church surround by residential that located inside a residential building. Some of the memers of the church is resident of this building.

Cheung On Building in Yu Chau Street is a residential building.To avoid high rent and some reason, some retail, prostitutes, foot massage open shop in upper level.

Lobby Office Bank

This building is combined by commerical and religion. There are 2 floors for the church while there is a karaoke room on top of it.

This building included office and residential. The circulation for officer and resident is same for 1st floor, but 2/1 is already private

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Tai Po Rd Tai Po Rd

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Tai Po Rd

48 Berwick St

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Hai Tan St

Section - C4

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

42 Lai Chi Kok Rd

Hai Tan St

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Hai Tan St

Tai Po Rd

Hai Tan St

Section - C2

Section - C3

Lai Chi Kok Rd

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Section - C1

Cheung Sha Wan Rd

Sham Shui Po has been labelled as one of the poorest districts:It is compact, complicated, yet highly diversified. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Inhabitantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; adaptation starts from spatial poverty, then shifts to spatial re-interpretation and finally generates spatial diversity and re-invention. Through revealing the hidden spatial agenda and new typologies of spatial adaptation, it demonstrates how people in Hong Kong turned the physical limitations into inspirational spatial inventions.

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Having conducted urban researches of Sham Shui Po, students are then asked to analyze the urban fabric as a stripe and construct a site model. The site is divided into 3 stripes, while each contains a diverse amalgamation of programme, typology and social groups. In this exercise, students are expected to understand and identify the diversity in term of programme, function and community with the three different scales – District, Block, Building and Room.

The relationship between the Pharmacy and Herbal shop -The Pharmacy and Herbal shop combined as one shop, the fusion of traditional Chinese medicine

The relationship of two different wholesale clothing shop Two wholesale clthing shop share the space of the corridoor for retailing.

The relationship between the Pharmacy and Newsagent’s shop Originally, three were two gateways of the Pharmacy but the Newsagent’s shops embed into the Pharmacy, There only remains one possible way to enter the Pharmacy.

Three different functions of the restaurant The restaurant has been divide into three parts, include dinning(serves food and drink to customers), kitchen and godown.

Some Stores are facing the hawkers, and the hawkers are block the front door of the stores.

This type is ground floor for the toy store and upper floor for the hookers. And the programs are so special in SSP

Some of the floor which separate to more rooms to more people.

This type is called adjacent. And the program arrange side by side

Freight House

Section

Store A1

Store A2

Building Exit Shop

Car Park

Hawker

Decoration shops

In one store, there has different function that is different owner. For Store A1, there is an office to sell food. And Store A2, there is a car park for other company.

There are two decoration shops have many identical product. They may share the freight house to sale next shop of products.

In existing planning, there is one store. However the store owner divided to five stores. Also, those stores are selling same things that are clothes wholesale.

In this street, more stores are selling the toys. In order to attract more people, all of store owner will extend their store area to the street. Also, it will have many hawker on the road.

Wall

Residence

Fruit shop(outdoor)

Shop

Clothing store(indoor) Shop occupied back alley

Usually, each shop has one corner, but the one of the shop above has no corner and the shop beside has two corner.

Normally, a shop will be at the ground floor, and residence on top of them. However, in the case above, the shop is surrounding by residences.

The shops were separated originally. After the shop occupied the front of the back alley, the shops lined up like a string.

A fruit store exist along the outer wall of the clothing store. The fruit store is like trapped in the short na row back alley. The clothing store can’t use its outer wall and a thick layer is used to separate itself and the fruit store.

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C It is trying to show that the hawkers at the front will extend their display to the pedestrian

Elevation

Section

Elevation A

The hawker and the store will use the canopy to create a special space for attracting people

Elevation

Section Section AAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The hawker locate on the first and the last one will extent more To solve the sunlight problem, the hawker does not built in the same place anymore Section BBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Parasitic Handicraft Centre & Museum in Sham Shui Po Rooftop - leisure space

Outdoor circulation Visual connection with site context

Transom design for museum area

Window Large opening for studio area

Foundation support

Model Exhibition@2016 Venice Biennale

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WONG CHUK HANG The urban studies on land use history and projection, infrastructural development, revealed an interesting juxtaposition of industrial shipyards and luxuries residential, sanpan and yachts set the major sceneries of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aberdeen Channel along Wong Chuk Hang Despite the variety of programs, Wong Chuk Hang possesses a very strong suburban identity with considerably large lots of singular use. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wong Chuk Hang is very fragmented with segregated communities. The introduction of the south rail has triggered a new wave of changes to the historically suburban neighbourhood with more and more commercial and hotel towers replacing the half-centuryold factory buildings. The south rail will rapidly urbanize Wong Chuk Hang by bringing new inhabitants and users to the area of which will be just 10-15 minutes away from the central district by MTR. While the socio-economic development is bound to transform the built and natural landscape of Wong Chuk Hang, how shall new architecture take form while negotiating between the boundaries/terrain/territories? Studio Coordinator Eddie Chan

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Wong Chuk Hang Estate

1910 1900

Shek Pai Wan Estate

Ap Lei Chau Main Street

Aberdeen Channel

Staunton Creek Sea

1890

Ap Lei Chau Power Station

Ap Lei Chau

1880 1870 1860 Aberdeen Centre

Lei Tung Estate

Tin Wan Estate

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Landmark

Zoning

Subway

Traffic

Subway MTR Station Subway Exit Elevated Section Bus Stop

Water & Sail route

Mountain & Land

1. West lamma channel to Sham Wan 2. Sham Wan to Aberdeen to Ap Lei Chau 3. Aberdeen wholesale fish maket to Aberdeen 4. Ap Lei Chau to Aberdeen 5. Aberdeen wholesale fish market to Aberdeen 6. Ap Lei Chau to Aberdeen Separate -Ap Lei Chau Split The Ocean into water Channel & Protect the ocean swells from South China Sea

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NORTH POINT

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Studio Tutor Paul Mui Among the hidden layer of space in a big city like Hong Kong, there are leftover spaces buried in the dense urban settings that were forgotten. An adventuring exploration and urban studies of the given context â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chun Yeung Street in North Point aimed to reveal such slices of leftover spaces. This sector of Hong Kong Island East was once a community of the Shanghai immigrants and has now developed itself into a mixed community. Chun Yeung Street is a wet market since the 30s with a tram rail runs straight through the crowd of shoppers and still refuses to be extinguished by the modern supermarkets/ shopping malls The niches were taken apart by sensory documentation, sounds, smell, texture, movement, objectsâ&#x20AC;Śetc were sampled and examined the urban implication. Radical propositions and opportunities were generated in the critical discussion and negotiation of some contradictory dimensions such as the tangible and intangible; the permanent and mobile, and the differentiating and co-existent. Scenario-based design process leads to architectural propositions with the radical programme, user and spatial interpretations in a leftover space. A 125 square foot space is the limit of the design (approx. the size of a parking lot). By restraining the physical boundary of the space, one may be provoked to a limitless imagination of the space.

Action Circulation circulation Action Climb Circulation circulation Climb

1-4. Signboard Spy House

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Fanling and Sheung Shui, situated in the northeast part of the New Territories, are with a strategic location and gateway to Shenzhen, the border of China. Once being the bustling agricultural and commercial hub of Hong Kong and the southern province of China in 19th century, the area became marginalized during the early British colonial period. The planning development for the Northern District resumed in the 1960s, primarily driven by the new-railway line, resulting in new satellite towns accommodating the rapid growth of population expansion. The prototype of high-density residential towers and shopping complex became the norm of these satellite towns, shifting from the old town centres and local bazaars. The current political and economical changes and challenges in the area due to the CEPA and super-active individual travelers/parallel traders from Mainland China also become a prominent agenda in the discussion and investigation of a sustainable urban regeneration. The urban studies aims to carry out critical reflections to the alienation of old towns. Through the in-depth study and research in the cultural, social, economic, heritage, environmental, land use, infrastructure and civic issues, architectural responses were generated to the following objectives (1) what makes a town centre vibrant and sustainable; (2) the various design approaches to urban regenerations and the neglected space in its context.

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Health

Multi-Purpose Hall

Elderly Home Market

Mobility Interaction

Art & Cultu

Exhibition & Gallery

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Multi-Purpose Hall Art & Culture Center Market

Senior Care Center

Isolation of the community

Public space was occupied by parallel goods trader

Low quality of elderly home

Active Ageing

Health

Mobility

Interaction

Studio Coordinator Jason Tang

Mental Health

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SHEUNG SHUI

CDA R(A) R(B) R(C) V I G/IC GB AGR O OU Road OZP 2013

Wholesale shop Pharmacy Invasive Business Ecosystem

Buffer Zone

Indigenous Business Eco-system

one way road two way road Direction of road Attract by new facilities

New Facilities attract

local resident parallel goods Circulation

Extend site boundary

Shek Wu Hui Market

Shek Wu Hui

Respect the building height of Shek Wu Hui Only build highrise in the side way Invasive species zone Parallel goods traders Wholesales shops

Sheung Shu Heung

Shek Wu Hui Park

Landmark North Sheung Shu MTR station

Choi Yuen Estate New convenice circulation Can attract the traders and shop

Buffer zone Pocket garden

Indigenous species zone Local retail

CULTURE This city is a true phenomenal cultural hotpot. Traditional paper sculpture art and event for Chinese Hungry Ghost Month juxtaposes with Western Wine bar and bistro in gentrified upper Central Soho. The holy site for gadgets and electronics along Ap Liu Street - a hawker street market, co-exist with the cage dwellings/subdivided flats of the underprivileged citizen, just one or two floors above in pre-war tenement houses. Could art plaza, cinema village, upcycling hub and other hybrid programmed building helps to reveal and sustain the vibrant cultural mix?

URBA N I TY / C U LTU RE

Indigenous culture of Hungry Ghost Festival has a long history and still survive vaguely alongside the urban regentification of the SoHo district in upper Central. The handicraft skills of paper sculpture, Chinese scaffolding signage were proposed to be shared and sustained in the â&#x20AC;&#x153; Exchange Hubâ&#x20AC;? sited in the desert pocket gardens found among old Tong Lou settlements. Elevated workshops and library enhanced the communal garden space under and streamline the once blocked circulation.

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+32.2 Exhibition

+30.8 Library +22.2 Lecture Hall of Craft School +19.2 Studio/ Theatre Audience Deck +16.2 Studio/ Theatre Audience Deck +13.2 Studio/ Theatre Audience Deck +10.2 Studio/ Theatre Audience Deck +6.2

Restaurant

+3.0

Workshop/ Kitchen

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Workshop/ Craft Gift Shop

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Cinema Shops Circulation

Village Cinema: Large and Free- standing

Nowadays Cinema: As a part of the shopping mall

Ideal Cinema: Cinema Village

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Transformation of an abandoned village cinema into a cinema village - a large scale cinema complex becomes the main programme of the architecture, but not box-in mini-cinemas being in highest levels of a shopping mall. Each cinema house links with different indoor and outdoor spaces and cinema visitors would have a different experience when they meander around different houses. The glazed and exposed circulation spine intertwine with the central void space acts as an interface between the movie world and the reality.

Cinema Office Lobby Record store Book store cafe Cafe Food court

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An upcycling journey was superimposed to the heritage Luen Wo Hui Market, aiming to educate people about the concept of eco-friendliness and promote the significance of upcycling. Disposed cardboard, wooden pallets, metal works were collected around Luen Wo Hui and process in the Recycling zone. Designers will work with the waste material in the Upcycling Studio producing products and displays in the Exhibition Centre.

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STUDENTS

RESIDENTS

VISITOR

Workshop Market Exhibition

MATERIAL

Visitor Centre Sorting Area Manufacturing Area Storage

URBA N I TY / C U LTU RE

Upper Floors Stores Location

3/F

2/F

1/F

GF Mainly Selling Electronic Device

By studying the difference between the circulation of pedestrian in sunny and rainy days, figure out which are affecting by the nature sunlight and rainfall. Beside that, hawkers create their own temporary shelters which are chaotic and random and yet with underlaying system and rhythm.

URBA N I TY / C U LTU RE

SUNNY DAYS

Closed Section AA’ & Plan

RAINY DAYS

Opened Section AA’ & Plan

RAINFALL NEW HAWKER STORE (AA’)

LIGHTING NEW HAWKER STORE (BB’)

NEW HAWKER STORE (BB’)

NEW HAWKER STORE (AA’) 7:00am

7:00am

Morning - store close - hawker store with diy drinage system

Morning - soft sunlight - more light go into interior

1:00pm

Afternoon - Intense sunlight - less light go into interior - Shelter - roof of hawker store - umbrella - building extention

Afternoon - diy drinage system cannot deal with heavy rain - water leakage occur - pedestrian squeez into the sidepath - annoyed

-as a shelter to block sunlight & rainfall -allow nature sunlight go in -create interation between pedistraian -using light and rain water to affect the temperture under the shelter -affect the circulation

-allow pedistrian read the signs -allow visual connection between residents & pedistrian -easy cleaning - fire services ordinance

1:00pm

URBA N I TY / C U LTU RE

REFLECTIVE - GLASSES MIRRORS

VOID & TRANSPARENT - ETFE

Water Shadow

The ‘‘SHELTER’’ at Ap Liu Street, SSP

URBA N I TY / C U LTU RE

The ‘‘Link’’ – Intermediate Point Of Connections at fringe of Shek Wu Hu

MOVEMENT MOVEMENT MOVEMENT MOVEMENT

Movement - link between community

Link Link Link between between between Community Community Community Link between Community

MOVEMENT Link between Community

Orginal tenement buildings blocked the direct circulation between

STEP 0 : Original Tenement Buildings have blocked

Squeeze the building to have lower building density and wider

STEP 1 : Squeeze the building to have lower

Shek Wu Hui and nearby communities streets STEP STEP STEP 00: 0:Original Original : Original Tenement Tenement Tenement Buildings Buildings Buildings have have have blocked blocked blocked STEP STEP STEP 11: 1:Squeeze Squeeze : Squeeze the the the building building building to toto have have have lower lower lower the direct circulations between Shek Wu building density and wider streets the the the direct direct direct circulations circulations circulations between between between Shek Shek Shek Wu Wu Wu building building building density density density and and and wider wider wider streets streets streets Hui and nearby communities Hui Hui Hui and and and nearby nearby nearby communities communities communities

STEP 0 : Original Tenement Buildings have blocked SPACE the directSPACE circulations SPACE SPACE between Shek Wu Program Interaction Hui and nearby communities

STEP 1 : Squeeze the building to have lower building density and wider streets

Connect buildings with diagonal bridges

STEP 2 : Connect buildings with diagonal bridges

STEP STEP STEP 22: 2:Connect Connect : Connect buildings buildings buildings with with with diagonal diagonal diagonal bridges bridges bridges

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STEP 2 : Connect buildings with diagonal bridges

Program Program Program Interaction Interaction Interaction

Space - program interaction

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STEP 3 : Create pedes the ob

SPACE Program Interaction Library : Lift Access

Library : Escalators Access

Library Library Library : :Lift Lift : Lift Access Access Access

Library : Lift Access

Library Library Library : :Escalators Escalators : Escalators Access Access Access

Library : elevator access

Health Centre : Ground Relationship with nearby Western Clinic

Library Library Library : :Ramp Ram : Ram

Library : escalator access Library : Escalators Access

Library : Ramp &

Music/Dance Studio : Ramp, Bridges & Stairs Access

F&B : Ground Flo

Health Health Health Centre Centre Centre : :Ground Ground : Ground Relationship Relationship Relationship with with with nearby nearby nearby Western Western Western Clinic Clinic Clinic Music/Dance Music/Dance Music/Dance Studio Studio Studio : :Ramp, Ramp, : Ramp, Bridges Bridges Bridges &&Stairs &Stairs Stairs Access Access Access

Health centre : ground relationship with nearby western clinic Health Centre : Ground Relationship with nearby Western Clinic

Library : Ramp &

Music / dance: studio : ramp, bridge staircases access Music/Dance Studio Ramp, Bridges &and Stairs Access

F&B F&B F&B : :Ground Ground : Groun

F&B : Ground Flo

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Create ramped roof to extend pedestrian area, and pull up the end

Create 2 new circulations across Shek Wu Hui and nearby commu-

Open up the blocked Fu Hing St by re-locating the entrance of

nal bridges STEP Create roofroof to extend STEPSTEP 4nity: Create acrossacross Shekacross Wu Hui 5STEP : Open up blocked Fublocked HingFu Hing onal diagonal bridges bridges STEP 3 : Create 3 :ramped Create ramped ramped roof to extend to extend STEP 4a :digging Create 42 :new Create 2circulations new 2 new circulations circulations Shek Shek Wu STEP Hui Wu Hui STEP 5 : Open 5tunnel : the Open up the up the blocked Fu Hing part as 3 the:STEP observation deck by sunken plaza the existing pedestrian area, andarea, pullpull up the part as part community by a digging pedestrian pedestrian area, and and up pullend the upend the part end as as and nearby and nearby and nearby community community by a by digging a digging StreetStreet by re-locating the entrance Street by re-locating by re-locating the the entrance entrance thethe observation deck sunken plaza observation the observation deckdeck sunken sunken plazaplaza of existing tunnel of existing of existing tunnel tunnel The old and new communities in Shek Wu Hui (Sheung Shui) have been segregated by the infrastructure, new developments and also the flux of parallel goods traders in the area. Interactive connections among nal bridges STEP 3 : Create ramped roof to extend STEP 4people : Createand 2 new circulations across Shek WuisHui STEP 5 : Open up thetheblocked Fu Hing with a newly spaces are missing. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;LINKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; creating a new path joining two communities pedestrian area, and pull up the end part as and nearby community by a digging proposed communal building as the intermediate point of connections. By adding attractive new programs Street by re-locating the entrance the observation deck sunken plaza gathering spaces, the boundary breaks up and the two communities connect again. with interactive

cess

of existing tunnel

Interaction SpaceSpace Interaction Interaction Space Library : Ramp & Bridges Access Library Library : Ramp : Ramp & Bridges & Bridges Access Access

Roof Garden RoofRoof Garden Garden

Sharing Corner Sharing Sharing Corner Corner

Interaction Space

Roof garden

Library : ramp and bridges access Library : Ramp & Bridges Access

Roof Garden

Sharing corner

Sunken Plaza Sunken Sunken PlazaPlaza

F&B : Ground Floor Direct Access F&B :F&B Ground : Ground FloorFloor Direct Direct Access Access

Sunken Plaza Sunken plaza

Food &Direct beverage : ground floor direct access Access F&B : Ground Floor

Sharing Corner

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Sharing Corner

Library

Sunken Plaza

Library

Roof Garden

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coated aluminium louvers

glass handrail

greening

roof

roof garden

skylight 3/ F

wooden deck

steel beams

coated aluminium mesh wooden louvers

2/ F

curtain wall 1/ F

reinforced concrete slab greening

G/ F

steel columns stone pavment

sunken plaza

Envelop

Structure

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Urban planning and Intervention An Art Hub / Plaza in Luen Wo Hui

Isolated Families + No Focus of Hui

Back To Luen Wo (Community)

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Bridge: Convienient for upper connect to lower level

Studio and Exhibition

Physical Connection

Sunken Plaza

Sunken Road: Mix with Main Road Public Plaza

Luen Wo Market

View Connect From Market to Town

Road, Smooth Connection with Master Planning and Plaza

Tunnel - Connect From Plaza to upper level

Studio

Ramp Circulation

Communal Plaza

Exhibition

Art Market

Retails

Final Sunken Plaza

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Indoor

Semi - Indoor

Outdoor

Residential

Roof Garden Retails

Residential

Residential Children Care Workshop Volunteer Center

Bar & Cafe Retails

Studio Library

Books & Art Tools Shop

Retails

Exhibition

Art Craft Market

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Huiâ&#x20AC;? means a town with market and residents with close relations. Luen Wo Hui was a big and busy Hui in Fanling for farmers and businessmen. However after the rapid development of the new town around, the Hui has turned quiet, and neighbours in the Hui has become more isolated. Recreating the Hui with full cultural energy and artistic living quality is the main goal of this project.

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In one of the most extreme capitalized city, we have an amazingly peaceful mix of religious belief co-exist in the territory. Not having the same struggle in other countries or metropolis due to different religious conflicts, various religion followers and institutions need to face the high-dense urban context of Hong Kong. Churches and chapels fly up to multi-storey towers and on top of a Muslim mosque or Taoist Temple, all sharing the same electrical lift system as the access! A peaceful and adaptive urban phenomenon of which may only happen here. Students took up this specific urban scenario and challenge based on critical reflections and research. Mixed religious complex with well-articulated public space was proposed to reinforce the peaceful coexistence of different beliefs.

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Religious programmes analysis in existing Tenement House. Adaptative use of space in multi-level buildings ritual.

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慶雲道社

佛學人生研究員 multi function classroom

traditional chinese physician soothsayer god statue

toilet

toilet fortune teller chinese medicine god statue

patient

fuji planchette writing 51-65+

36-65+

三太子及北帝宮

基督教傳頌救恩會

Central Axis

office worship area

toilet

function rooms

storage activity space 36-65+

65+

道教信善紫玄觀

illegal private columbaria

基督教傳頌救恩會

toilet

storage office activity space

toilet office activity space

51-65+ 神前燈

small worship area

基督教新希望團契

function room

storage

3m (low ceiling) podium

Activity space shopping area

worshipper 19-50

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activites area activites, worship & clergy area

1. door 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. other program

office activites, worship & clergy area staff room worship office garden

1. door 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. other program

talk area staff room Buddhism Christian Taoism Garden Commerce

activites, worship & clergy area activites area activites area

A 25 storey Office Tower in SSP accommodated 3 churches, Taoism temple and 1 Buddism school.

1. sober area 2. area for worship 3. clergy area 4. area for worship 5 other - speech area 1. door 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. other program

1. door 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. other program

1. sober area 2. area for worship 3. clergy area 4. area for worship 5. other - speech area

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1. stair 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. talk area

1. sober area 2. area for worship 3. clergy area 4. activities area 5. office

1. stair 2. garden 3. door for worship 4. area for worship 5. main worship area 6. smaller worship area and office

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Juxtaposition of various religious worship space in highrise tower. Open space and circulation tactically designed to shared between difficult institution, enhancing the spiritual experenice.

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Flats

Church

Shop

In SSP district with low income yet high density living. Some churches were established the poorest in one of the flats in Tenement Houses. Studies revealed the lacking of public and green spaces.

Sun light Problem

Sound

Solution

View

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Chapel

Kitchen Multi- Faith Room

Office Social Space Roof Garden

Multi- Function Room

Lift & Fire Escape Ladder

Structure of ramp

Pond Lift Entrance

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Chapel

Social Space & Kitchen

Roof Garden Muilti- Faith Room

Muilti- Function Room

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A provocative urban proposition to exchange the seminary with the seaside deluxe high rise tower. The argument is the disposition of high rise residential tower blocked all seaview to the elderly home located at hilltop and also privatised the shoreline, of which should be open to the public, in view of enhancing the man and sea relationship and public space provision. A tranquil seminary and religion study center bridged the huge retaining structure, creating sacred meditation spaces and provides circulation to connect the hilltop down to the seashore. The exchange also rewards the deluxe residential high rise with a 360 degree mountain and sea view and a prestige location.

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HIGH ANGLE SUN

MEDIUM ANGLE SUN

LOW ANGLE SUN

LIVING Manner/Mode of life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; directly relates to the urban context ranging from dwelling units, leisure space, shops, and eateries. Current architecture development in these aspects seems narrow down to very typical programmatic arrangement with super small flat size layout and monopolized shopping brands. All leads to a tendency of distinguishing local small shops and food preparationâ&#x20AC;ŚVarious design studios examined such phenomenon and open up the discussion of how should people live in our city.

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COMMUNE Domestic architecture in contemporary Hong Kong, though highly compact and efficient in vertical tower and land use planning, has been speculated to induce isolation and detachment of individual to community and neighbourhood. The idea â&#x20AC;&#x153; Commune â&#x20AC;&#x153; here is not specifically referencing to socialism nor communism, but to suggest exploration of domestic spaces and programmes in the context of existing public housing or compact indigenous Ding Uk villages, rethinking the relationship of individual dwelling and communal living. Students took radical approaches in spatial configuration, re-defined the conventional idea of public and private zones, time-related space planning to changes of an individual or the user group. Critical reflection on how domestic architecture can respond to underprivileged target groups helps to nourish a socialistic perspective and concern on top of form/space making.

Hiking Trail for Elderly in Choi Hung Estate

RECONFIGURATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN CHOI HUNG ESTATE

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Public Spaces as viewing corridor / device in Choi Hung Estate

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A. 1-2. 3. 4.

Choi Hung Estate Public space among units Flexible space planning Plug-in units capture views

B. 5-6.

Sham Shui Po Tenement House Flexible space planning Plug-in units capture views Compact dwelling design with natural ventilation & lighting communal space Study of existing Tenement House and sub-divided flats SSP highrise shophouse brings street activties to higher level

7. 8-9.

Roof Plan

Winter

Orginal

Subdivied Units

Residential Shops

Sex Shop 3/F Plan

Present

Cooking

Eating

Entertaining

RECONFIGURATION PROJECTS IN CHOI HUNG ESTATE AND SHAM SHUI PO TENEMENT HOUSE

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RECONFIGURATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN CHOI HUNG ESTATE

Existing Fabric

Connect top floor

Ramp/ Staircase

Facade detail

Sky light

One unit has own ramp/Staircase

Public

24 people can share the top floor

Top Floor

20/F

Communication

8 people can share the living when the glass open 20/F

Sharing

4 people can share the grass lawn

4 people can share the living 19/F

Privacy

Person has own area

RE-VISITING DING UK DESIGN WITH COMPACT SITE CONTEXT IN SAI KUNG

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Park See Cheung Street

oo m

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Be d

Toilet & Bathroom

TCM Storage

Living Rm

TCM Waiting Area Elderly Communicate Area

Dinning Rm

Sun

th e

Consulation Rm

ne ar by

Toilet (Disable)

Study Rm

Bed Rm

To ile ts ho ul d

Interior Balcony

th e

Toilet & Bathroom

Bed Rm

Third block of Building

RE-VISITING DING UK DESIGN WITH COMPACT SITE CONTEXT IN SAI KUNG

SITE PLAN Sea View

1/F

Sea View

G/F

Block 22A

2/F

SKY Ca

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Public Place for Elderly

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Visual Communication with External Element

Visual Communication with Internal Element

Lighting (Winter)

Lighting (Summer)

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Two separate apartments. The structure and facade constructed by concrete, created a strong and rigid look

G/F

1 & 1.5/F

2/F

Spatial arrangments

Semi- Private Area

Public Mode Panels Open Master Bedroom Semi Private Area Bedroom Living Room

Public Mode Windows Open Connected

Interactions

Private Mode Panels Close

Interactions

Private Mode Windows Close Disconnected

RE-VISITING DING UK DESIGN WITH COMPACT SITE CONTEXT IN SAI KUNG

Two apartments are interlocked to symbolize the strong bonding between the residents

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Lane

Park

Car Park Car Park

Combinded

Street

Street Restaurant

G/F

Restaurant

Sea

1/F

2/F

Combinded

Sea

G/F

1/F

2/F

Balcony

Study area

Funcations in the ramp

PARENTS + DISABLED SON

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

RE-VISITING DING UK DESIGN WITH COMPACT SITE CONTEXT IN SAI KUNG

Son's bedroom Parents bedroom

G/F PLAN

SECTION AA

VIEW POINT

ACCESSIBILITY

playground, pier, street and car park, help physically disabled connect windows.

All levels and zones connect by ramp

1/F PLAN

2/F PLAN

SOUTH ELEVATION

SECTION BB

2/F

T/F PLAN

WEST ELEVATION

RE-VISITING DING UK DESIGN WITH COMPACT SITE CONTEXT IN SAI KUNG

It is intended to embed the Ding Uk with a gallery in an extraordinary appearance. The building form creates a contrast with the surrounding building, hiding behind the trees in the old district of Sai Kung. The feature house therefore attracts visitor to go into the public gallery in this futuristic and compacted house, while some rooms with privacy should be kept.

Typical Ding Uk

Typical Gallery

ROOF PLAN 1:100

Main Gallery with skylight

3RD FLOOR 1:100

2HALF FLOOR 1:100 Mini Gallery

Bedroom Living room

2ND FLOOR 1:100

Bedroom

1ST FLOOR 1:100

SITE PLAN

GROUND PLAN 1:100

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WEAVE THE NEIGHBOURHOOD The shopping experience in Hong Kong currently dominated by shopping mall complex or towers, most of them linked with metro train railway ( MTR ). Traditional but neglected markets ( Hui ), shopping streets in New Territories are alienated and yet challenged by cross-border parallel traders from China. Urban studies in such “Hui” revealed the fabric of the past which once had a dynamic experience of “ getting what you need “ and “ wandering around “ among the network of shops, eateries, food stalls and auxiliary resting places. A new form of shopping cluster is proposed to negotiate between commercial/contextual/cultural and communal programmes. Dead pedestrian links are revitalized and communal activities enhanced. The argument is that monopolized type of shopping brands may not sustain a resilient city development. The possibility of pop-up shops, designer/maker stores juxtaposing with traditional local noodle bar, metalwork shops, playrooms/parks for kids and elderly, etc. was examined by unfolding the maze like back lane fabric. Undulating circulation systems are introduced to weave the shopping cluster together with the neighbourhood.

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Community Labyrinth – Shek Wu Hui commercial village Proportions studies

G/F Consider with circulation, relationship of retail

1/F

2/F

Circulations, retail relationship, view point of street

3/F

1/F circulations, historial building, street

Historial building, view of far away street

Program Diagram

Cafe Public space ‘COME‘ room`

Residents Association Community Arts area

Retail Tea House

Child Care Centre

Restaurant

Chinese Restaurant

Retail Multi Purpose room

Discuss area Self study room

Different Circulations

Children Care Centre

Retail

Main Building

Restaurant Retail Childeren Care Centre

Public Space

Retail

Chinese Restaurant

This circulation for who want to take a rest in research area and enjoy the community environment.

Public Space

Discuss Area

Multi Purpose Room (Mahjong)

Public Space Chinese Restaurant Restaurant

This circulation is proposed some program which needed in the community and it is coordinate the silence.

This circulation for who live in the research area to have some community and benefit the society.

Self study room

This circulation for who enjoy the chinese entertainment community, it is coordinate the park which is exist the chinese entertainment community

Main

Building

Residents Association

‘Come‘ room

Public Space

Cafe

Tea room

Parallel Import/ Non Local Activities

Residents Association

Community Arts Area

Retail

Public Space Cafe Public Space Restaurant ‘COME’ Room Residents Association Child Care Centre Chinese Restaurant Community Arts Area Multi-Purpose Room (Mahjong)

Retail Outdoor Discuss Area Tea Room

1 3

Self Study Room

2 1 1

1/F Plan 1. Retail 2. Terrace 3. Store 4. Multi-purpose` room

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Lighting

Shelter transform the sunlight to lane.

Fit into building, studying the possibility of program

One side allow the light get into the lane.

Study the program relationship

Study model of main building

Footbridge connect building UP: Two circulation of the chinese restaurant connect to building with different level DOWN: Entrance from study room to building

Shelter is enclose. Lane provide an artificial light for visitor, this is not comfortable for the main circulation

Relationship between bridges, buildings and programs

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MOUNTAIN

SEA

The archipelago terrain of Hong Kong is a unique geography in Pearl Delta of South China Sea, and even along the south east coastline of the vast land of China. Centuries ago, the architectural typologies and settlements were a true reflection and respectful response to the extreme mountain and sea geographic context. Current urban developments lean towards the engineered efficiency and obsessed with infrastructures merely designed for vehicular usage. The subtle relationship between urban design and the unique mountain/sea had been neglected. Citizens are unable to get close to the water edge and hardly see the mountain ridgeline. These urban proposals based on contextual studies explored the opportunities to re-engage people with mountain and sea.

4/F MARINE CLUB SHIPYARD TEMPORARY INDUSTRIAL

BOAT CLUB POLICE BASE

LAUNDRY FACTORY COMMUNAL AREA

3/F

2/F

Initial zoning of Shum Wan Road

1/F

Re-zoning of Shum Wan Road

Proposed New Marina Club re-connects sea shore and public spaces.

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Roof

6/F

5/F

4/F

3/F

2/F

1/F

G/F

Proposed public swimming pool on top of existing mid-level covered reservoir.

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FARM VS LIVING Local farming in New Territories has been revisited after lacking sustainable development policy for decades. City planning in the 80s took over most of the farmland, gave way to satellite cities development with high-rise housing, shopping complex, and extensive infrastructure. Arouse by the current global discussion of organic farming, low carbon footprint and green city movement, new generations of farmer initiated a discussion of how farmland coexist with our city. This project is a master plan aims to rebridge the idled farmland to the old city center. Urban agriculture in a form of green bridge was utilized in an attempt to revitalize the aging old city in a radical but resilient way.

Before 2010s, Luen Wo Hui Market was main space for sell the food

After 2010s, Luen Wo Hui Market was close by city develop.

History

1900s

1910s

1920s

Follow Ng Tung River to The establishment of KCRC develop agriculture at Fanling station The KCRC service was extended to Sha Tau Kok from Fanling station

Connecting new buildings by bridge

Relate the existing roof

1930s

Castle Peak Rd and Tai Po Sheung Shu station was Rd were connecting the established. New Territories and West Kowloon

Natural landscape is designed on the entire outdoor area

1940s The Luen Wo Market development are confirmed by the government

Concave landscape allows people to seat and gather

Rotater the roof for attach more sun light

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URAN FARM LINK

LUEN WO HUI, FANLING - URBAN FARM, WORKSHOP, MARKET, RESTAURANT

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

New Territories Circular Rd connecting Fanling and Sheung Shui to other town

Team locomotives replaced Railway electrification entirely by the diesel locomotives

Organic Farm Retail Community vertical form

Retail Retail Ground floor & Commerical

Bus Stop

Green Room & garden

Industry area

2000s

Present

YPOLOGY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link to what a building can be.â&#x20AC;? Steven Holl Talking about situations, here in Hong Kong, gives ground to such extreme and diverse setting and possibilities. A folio of work showcase how students try to seize and translate such situations into various types of architectural proposition

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horizontal

vertical host

parasites

nutrition

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Parasitic Tree Sheung Shui - the market closest to mainland China. There are informal activities that show a kind of balance between the local and non-local community of Sheung Shui. In this project, the balance is extended to a larger scale by means of an open framework design, letting informal activities grow.

MTR Sheung Shui station mini bus station

Landmark North bus station

SPOT!

non- regular shops playground

before MTR Sheung Shui station mini bus station

Landmark North bus station

non-regular shops playground

after

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Roof Garden Lobby Restaurant

Lounge Vertical Farm

Argricultural Centre Open Space Atrium Plaza

Geological Lab

Open Space

Green & Craft Market

Environmental Centre Geological Centre Geological Lab

Restaurant Argricultural Centre

Exhibition Space Exhibition Space Library Library Lecture Hall Workshop Studio

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Oblivious City @ Ex. Cha Kwo Ling Kaolin Mine

Free information flow accelerates development and the rate of change of the city. Maybe Hong Kong is solely a product of pure information exists within a fluid state; a place of vivid chaos in which any changes of inner array or information alters the overall pattern. Hong Kong is a sensitive place demonstrating what meteorologists speak of as the butterfly effect - a concept in which small input results in big change. Hong Kong can be imagined as a mega-giant TV screen with changing images. Each building/function/person is one light-dot that forms part of a pattern and is connected to the vast, unknown, complex source of informative signals determining the glowing or diminishing of each particular light dot. This is how the mega-giant TV screen suggests and responds to the ultra high-speed movement and multi-layered programming beneath the superficial â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;skinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Can anyone predict what can be happened in the future ten years time? Maybe we are driving a super fast sport car in a totally dark night with only two headlights guiding our direction and hoping that we can make a quick right turn when we suddenly found a cliff ten meters ahead Advanced Design Studio Michael Chan AAD DILWL

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Interactive

Sheung Shui Upcycling Center & Sheltered Workshop The design aims to promote the idea of upcycling production by activating and regenerating the waste paperboards abandoned on streets in Sheung Shui Shek Wu Hui. Three blocks, having their specific characters, are designed to serve the public, artists and sheltered workers. Circulation is designed to link up streets at all sides and provide some communal space attracting visitors and enhancing usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interaction.

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Inverted Tower

an alternative high rise in Wong Chuk Hang

Study Process Residential near coastal line will block all the lighting and ventilation

Allows ventilation and lighting to pass through. But it cannot provide enough density

Allows ventilation and lighting pass through and it can 70% density

Cutting the landscape allows more sunlight to the semi-underground tower

Design a straight entrance to connect the main road and the tower

Design the units in two side of the slope can provide many units and each unit facing the void

Putting the tower in the middle allows light go into the corridor

Design landscape can make the retaining wall more beautiful

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Electronic Recycling Hub in Sham Shui Po

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Parasitic Handicraft Centre & Museum in Sham Shui Po

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Yen Chow St

Kweilin St

Pei Ho St

300 m

Nam Cheong St

Road

Existing park separate from residents life in Shum Shu Po

Park

Residential building A park as parasitism on residential tower

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Rest Area Tai Chi Garden

Excercise Area

Core for Humanity Core for animal Changing Room

Amphitheatre Pool Kiosk

Entry plaza Information office & Security room Circulation Use the Quiet zone Use the Active zone

Tai Chi Garden Rest Area

Quiet zone Activities zone

Pool Amphitheatre

Urban Parasitic Park in Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po is one of the highest populated district in Hong Kong where open space is difficult to be found. The design project intertwines public space into the living environment through a mushroom-shaped park parasitizing in the residential tower. It can provide more leisure space for the residents by connecting it with their daily life.

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Super Mixers - Algae Tower Single 40,300,000,000 kWh 1 kilowatt hour = 0.7 kg CO2 1 kilowatt hour = $ 1.066

Couple

1 Household (3 people) = 5590 kWh = 151mÂ² Algae Panel

Family

Bed Room Studio Private Zone Day 0

Day 2

Day 4

Day 6

Day 0

Day 2

Day 4

Day 6

Living Room Algae Storage

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Eggs Production

Meat Chickens Production

Egg Farm One Hen

Mating Farm

Breeding Farm

Good Flock

One Hen

300 eggs/ Year One Rooster

Tower 630 People

X 12096 Eggs/ Year

X 403 Hens

Sheds 484 m³

Breeding Farm

Grazing Farm

Super Mixers - The Chicken Farm Tower

Grazing Farm

X10

Fertilized Eggs

Need

Landscapes Study 90 Days

21 Days

Life Circule

X50 Chicken

Hens Max 12 Eggs

X 62 Need X 2400 / Year

Good Flock Area

X 806 Eggs

Sheds 0.297 m³

Egg Farm 484 m³ Produce 120960 Eggs

Need

Egg Farm

Mating Farm

Need

X 13 Mating Farm 14 m³

X 68 Breed Hen

X 68 Sheds 1.44 m³

X 1200 Chicken Include Cover the Life Cycle

Egg Farm + Apartment

Gazing Farm 10155 m³ Produce 1200 Chickens

Configuration

Breeding Farm

Base Boundary

Solid+Void Sunlight

More Top Surface

Floor Slab

Grazing Farm

Chicken Farm Tower

Mating Farm

Chicken Farm Tower is an experiment for co-existence of both chicken and human, as well as providing good food production process within the tower. The housing tower is re-invented by mixing various programmes vertically to create more porosity to a tower in a 3-dimensional way. Each apartment has a view to the rural landscape and free running chicken farm. On the other side there is direct access for public to visit the breeding farm and mating farm as part of education. A new food culture and life style are created with this new typology of architecture.

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‘‘WE PERFORM’’

- a movable performing and living capsule

Existing site section

100

Selling outside the stand

People give way to the tram

Selling beyond pedestrian

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Ephemeral Bamboo / Fabric Shelter for Sex Workers

Form Study

Building inside Building Roof/Floor Glass Fabric Frame Bamboo Scaffolding

Elevation 1:50

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Fabric

Design Studio Tutors ( 2013 -2016 ) Benjamin Boon Chi TSANG Born Kwok Wing LO Carol Yin Ling LEUNG Eddie Kwok Yiu CHAN Edward Tai Tak LAU Jason Yiu Lun TANG Jo Ting Chuen LO Julia Ting Yan MOK Luis COSTA Michael Sze Wah CHAN Paul Kui Chuen MUI Roy Christian OEI Sylvia Sze Wai FUNG Tihamer Hazarja SALIJ Thomas Wai Tong CHAN

HKDI Architecture Project Review #01

URBANITY Editor Carol Leung Editorial Assistant Leo Chu Jollie Cheung Graphic Design Cranes Media Company / Carol Leung

Urban

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Culture

Marco Leung . CM Lam . Mimi Chuen . Joshman Man . Joshua Wong . Sam Lee

Belief

Joe Wong . Jessica Leung . HY Ho . Victor So

Living

Box Nip . Ryan Chan . Marco Leung . Terry Tang . Mickey Chan . Chuk Ming Wong . Kaming Liu . Joshman Man . Kelvin Lo . Fabio Heung . Tay Wong . Sai Yiu Yu . Steve Tam . Louis Shing . Dicky Ip

Typology

Shervan Chan . Marco Leung . David Yeung . Yu Hin Tse . Steven Wong . Joshman Man . Ka Ming Liu. Stefan Chui . Wing Chun Cheng . Sharon Tsoi

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