We need to talk about the mall: Interventions in the public space

This book explores how to reinvent, reposition, and refunction the public space in and around the suburban mall of Schiedam Hof van Spaland. It contains of two parts: first it explores the problems related to the mall, and how these problems influence the community. Second, the project explores through different design scales how these problems...

The Interior is The Exterior; The Exterior is the Interior: The Complex Fold between the "Public" and the "Private"

Within the context of Hong Kong, it is discovered that the extremely compressed landscape of Hong Kong gives rise to a potential that people would negotiate and define their territories through their habits. In a sense, the conventional practice of architecture in Hong Hong has been transformed and adapted to the notion of compression. Whereby,...