Converging Grounds: An Immersive Synesthesia

STATEMENT This thesis situates itself with a desire to introduce public space into the urban centre through a re-interpretation of building to ground relationship to form a coherent experience of building to city; create an immersive experience which allows users

GROUND(ing) Architecture

In dense urban centres, public space is confined to the streets which are striated in nature: sharp boundaries that define buildings as a separate entities from the ground. For the public, this relationship makes their experience of the city with architecture single dimensional: limited

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

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