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...

Kowloon city redevelopment: Alternative urban solutions within the neoliberal frame

Kowloon city of Hong Kong is an area that used to be one of the “black hole” area of the city and famous for a special food street there. It is now part of the large-scale urban regeneration project that focuses on the "good business climate".The chanllenge is to balance the demand of development for the area and keeping its special identity...

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...

A denaturing of the non- places: The redefinition of the urban voids of the escalator area in Hong Kong

The city produces spaces that could be termed as voids, due to a momentum of a design which tends to fill with clear functions and meanings each corner of it. As the city develops, within the limits of it appear as an integral part, spaces that lack of a clear role. Their meaning is continuously open to the formulation and often emerges ...

A critical analysis of risk mitigation measures for target cost contracts in construction industry

A scarcity of empirical research has been observed on risk mitigation measures for those construction projects procured by guaranteed maximum price contracts (GMP) and target cost contracts (TCC) worldwide. This paper aims to seek and examine the risk mitigation measures associated with GMP and TCC (GMP/TCC) construction projects through an...

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...

Thinking Shanghai: A Foucauldian Interrogation of the Postsocialist Metropolis

This work is an investigation into Shanghai’s role in the twenty-first century as it attempts to rejoin the global city network. It also examines the effects this move is having on the city, its people, and its public spaces. Shanghai’s intention to turn itself into the New York of Asia is not succeeding, in fact the city might be better trying...

Hong Kong: Een studie van de huisvestingscyclus

Deze reis is door de drie organisatoren "Hong Kong 96" genoemd. Deze datering is inderdaad wenselijk, we hebben immers nog het Hong Kong mogen zien dat volop in de running is om een belangrijke plaats in dit deel van de wereld in te nemen. De speculaties over het hoe en wat na 1997 waren gedurende deze reis natuurlijk niet van de lucht zowel bij...