Revitalizing the urban life: Design a three-dimensional public space system by combining top-down and bottom-up approaches through serious gaming in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, China

From South to North: Studying the Urban Transformations from Land Reclamation in Wanchai, Hong Kong

The purpose of this paper is to study urban and social impacts brought about by land reclamation in Hong Kong since the early 20th century. To do so, this paper focuses on Wanchai, a coastal district in Hong Kong which has experienced dissimilar development in its Northern and Southern parts over a series of expansions into the harbour. This...

Voices, values, and the urban village: An imagined roundtable for Cha Kwo Ling

In 2022, the Outline Zoning Plan S/K15/27 was approved by the Hong Kong Government, confirming the demolition of Cha Kwo Ling Village (hereinafter: CKL Village) for high-density residential development. The fate of CKL Village and the responses it instigated raises how various stakeholders value the same space differently, but lack a...

Embracing the Communal: The Perseverence of the Dynamic

The world around us is developing constantly. In terms of architecture and urban development, China is unprecedented. In a way, the sheer speed and volume of construction is a phenomenon, becoming characteristic for Chinese developments. Like all matter, this in itself is neither necessarily positive of negative. However, such dialogue becomes...

City Complexity: Images of Hong Kong Culture and Space in Movies

Hong Kong is full of complexities in its culture and space, showing in the movies. The clear imageability allows it presents itself through city structures, landmarks, and architectural objects in the city, playing a vital role for people to recognize and be impressed. In addition to the spatial aspect, the cultural complexities undoubtedly...

The public interior: A Social condenser in Hong Kong

Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...

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,...

Night and Fog of Hong Kong: Balancing development and polycentric urban model exploration of Hong Kong in Pearl River Delta, Urban regeneration strategies in search for improving cohesion at Tin Shui Wai new town within the Hong Kong extended region

Due to the restricted functional collaboration between Hong Kong and Shenzhen Region as well as Pearl River Delta, the functional construction of Hong Kong Region becomes a mono-centric system which leads to a serious unbalanced development between its city centre and its peripheral new towns with great potential. However, the new planning...

Stimulate utilization and social interaction in physical public space through the implementation of digital technology: The case of Hong Kong

Wind Tunnel City

High density high-rise environments have significant impact on the air quality and use of space. In Hong Kong it has resulted in poor air quality; a network of podia with supporting facilities; with a mixed cultural background of East and West. Within Hong Kong, Mong Kok is the area with the worst air quality and the least available wind....

Urban redevelopment in the old Kai Tak area: Shading Kowloon City, Hong Kong

Create a system to re-organise public space in Kowloon City, Hong Kong - reduce the fragmentation of open spaces - connect different microcosmos to the ‘whole’ -highlight the qualities of public space the space ‘in between’ -allow the dynamics to invade Kai Tak

Urban Infestation: The newer the better?

The project is an experiment of an alternative way to the current urban renewal scheme in Hong Kong under the neo-liberial market influence, and to provide, instead, a bottom-up spaces for local culture, and grass-root small businesses.

Generic Environments as the Response to the Need of Changeability in Architecture: Urban Intervention in Hong Kong

Are built environments generic because of the need for changeability (flexibility)? That was the key question of the hypothetical assignment presented. Project uses the design tools of generic buildings – embedded into a grid, typical plans or systemized massing of volumes – to support specific identity of Hong Kong as leading city. The chosen...

Sublime & Heterotopic Landscapes

In the ever superlative city of Hong Kong the question has been posed of a, what if, after unification? An hypothetical redevelopment into a university city with the side effect of a morphological intervention on a new typology based university. The building is designed with the two specific research concepts in mind of a Kantian Sublime and an...

Opening the besieged city: Exploring an inclusive development strategy for Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong

Public housing system of Hong Kong was gradually established to meet the large demand of housing and intervene the property market since 1954. Together with the urban expansion to rural areas, new towns as self-sufficient areas were constructed to settle public housing in New Territory since 1970s. However, some new towns developed into public...

Hong Kong - Shenzhen Metropolitan Park Development: A sustainable and mutual benefit development plan for the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen

This final thesis report is a specific plan and research project of the cross-border area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen metropolis. The aim is looking for a sustainable and mutual benefit development strategy of cross-border area between the metropolitan area which is under highly urbanization and conurbation process. The main approach is using...