{"id":1674,"date":"2016-11-06T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T06:46:54","slug":"readdressing-individualism-in-hong-kong-residential-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/readdressing-individualism-in-hong-kong-residential-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Readdressing Individualism in Hong Kong Residential Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thesis Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n Housing, the type of architecture with the most intimate relationship with human, should address more originality and individuality by providing freedom of customization instead of being isolated from human lives with a stereotyped and standardized design.<\/p>\n Context \/ Ideas \/ Precedents<\/strong><\/p>\n In an age of mass production, Residential Towers has unfortunately become a standardized and unindividualized design product. Although more than a century has passed since the second industrial revolution, the residential developments in Hong Kong still take on a boxy concrete form of Modernism. The architecture that is the most close with human lives, now addresses no human concern due to a certain conformism in the building industry and the pursuit of economy maximization.<\/p>\n This situation has already aroused architects\u2019 attention. Early in 1960s, Metabolists in Japan proposed an idealistic concept to solve the contradiction between massification and individuality by envisaging a spatial urbanism allowing inhabitants to build their own house within a big infrastructural framework. This concept was seen naive without mature technologies or practical details at that time. However, the idea is inherited and being replenished.<\/p>\n