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

Appropriation and Modification

  [WHAT] Starting Point In this fast growing society, we have been demolishing and building too much to an extent that we start to forget what we were. Meanwhile, there are old buildings which have been trying so hard to

City-scape for FDHs

Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) have been serving the Hong Kong community and the number of workers is increasing constantly. Some of them are treated badly and lived in very small spaces in their employers’ homes. They can relieve from their

On Public Interior

Definition of the Public Interior The thesis focuses on scenarios related to public interiors. The definition of Public Interior refers to spatially enclosed environments which are experienced as a part to the public realm. In this definition, public interiors includes

Urban Landscape for the People

Lefebvre suggests that historically developed society would form its distinctive social space that could reflect its economy and social ecology. Hong Kong is full of its cultural geography. But the Government is creating “fake landscape” that wipes out the original