Life on the rivers

Life on the rivers   Photography by Jin Jian   1 Thesis statement This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between city and water, and try to design a removable structure on the river as a temporary architecture, it would

City Hijack Tactics & Influences

[THESIS STATEMENT] According to Hong Kong Public Space Initiative, public space can be defined as “an area where everyone, regardless of his or her background, can enter without prerequisite”1. Under this statement, good public space is always space that includes

Refugee camps as the new city

WHAT There is an architectural language in current refugee camps to be explored, the unique coexistence of temporarily and permanence, this thesis intends to explore that language and the urban layout of the camps. WHY As UNHCR reports, there are 65.3

Language of Density

Thesis statement We need a new system to increase capacity of major cities. This require a planning utility beyond the current plan-based method. To accommodate the diversity of booming society, it should also foster complexity instead of imposing monopolistic pattern.

“Architectural” Cages

Hong Kong’s property prices are among the highest in the world. Last week, the government raised the stamp duty for non-first-time buyers for the second time in three years to dampen soaring prices. As such, lengthy waits for public housing

Inserted Communities for Temporary Gathering

Thesis Statement  Inserted communities for temporary gathering in public space relieve the congestion of circulatory pedestrian. Context  Traffic jams happened frequently when someone stops inside the fast and intensive flow of circulation. Well known as one of the highest density

Oxymoron

As we know, even people build so many  huge fantastic cities. They still like to live in nature, though they can not really live in the original nature any more. So we have zoos, aquariums and arboretums. But the fact is

“Architectural” Cages

Hong Kong is one of the most populated city in the world. Huge population and limited space had caused to a housing shortage. With the wealthy gradually edge out the poor, where does the less well-off go? Many of the

Refugee camp as the new urban city and not temporary structures

The huge influx of refugees into Europe has been an urgent issue for the last couple of years. These camps often are not as temporary as they were constructed for. Kleinschmidt states ‘These are the cities of tomorrow.’ And that

(n)omantic city

non-romantic city = (n)omantic city ‘where is the romance in Hong Kong?’ I’m sure most of us struggle to answer this question. There are no romantic places in Hong Kong. It almost feels like that HK is a cold-hearted place, a high