Adaptive Metabolism in regenerating decaying industrial building in Hong Kong

The thesis is to critically examine the notion of sustainable architecture by rereading Metabolist theories and method. To explore ways to regenerate decaying industrial building with the adaptive approach in cope with the innovation of metabolic structure system.   Industrialization

Architecture after Disaster: Reliving in Post-disaster Area

Whenever people were suffered from the natural disaster like the earthquake and war, most of that injuries and deaths were not due to the disaster directly but due to the lack of living space, water problem and diseases. However, the

Architecture After Disaster

The number of people that have been forced to flee their homes has reached a post-war peak of 60 million, one third of whom had to leave their country. From that apocalyptic statistic, designers cannot just stand by and watch

Industrial building regeneration within metabolic cycle

Since 1980s, core of industrial development has shifted to mainland, where the industrial factory were gently replaced by the another uses. Many existing industrial buildings were seeking another way to keeping its values or extent its duration rather than demolish