{"id":1876,"date":"2016-11-07T21:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2016-11-18T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T04:55:16","slug":"language-of-density-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/language-of-density-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Language of Density"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The question is how would it look?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Human understanding of city is influenced by the technological advancement, once our understanding of future city was driven by Eastern Airline & General Motors and defined by autonomous flying cars1<\/a><\/sup>. In le Corbusier\u2019s Ville radieuse we were able to flying a plane directly onto the roof of our dwelling. In the SkyCity 1000 we imagine life in a gigantic pyramid and travel through 3D lift. Visions towards ultra density often emphasis on travel\/commute method or portrait industrialized living space no different from the totalitarian state in the movie \u2018Brazil\u2019, however I believe it need not to be.<\/p>\n As Engineers and ecologist usually inform these visions with scientific solution, often the spatial texture of these condensed spaces were overlooked, and in this thesis the emphasis is on how ultra-dense living can look beyond the engineered space.<\/p>\n To apply the highest known density to Hong Kong again.<\/p>\n The now-defunct Kowloon Walled City had the highest density of population per square km(1.255 million)2<\/a><\/sup> without governance, so the question is how one might re create such density with arrangement. Ultimately, I would attempt to apply this density on the entire Hong Kong and see if such intervention is plausible.<\/p>\n The thesis shall progress in such order.<\/p>\n Wilfredorrh. \u201cVertical Slum Invasion in Caracas\u201d https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/8\/7400\/16304940550_dd866d15bb_k.jpg<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n With the analysis, prototypes will be created to explore spatial models that could accommodate the ultra density.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we want to contest, however, is that this \u201cnew scale\u201d can change the substance of and urban artefact. It is conceivable that a charge in scale modifies and urban artefact in some way; but it does not change its quality.\u201d<\/p>\n -Aldo Rossi4<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n A module\/system that could allow a mega city to accommodate even larger population while maintaining its diversity and quality.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[107,66,93],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thesis statement<\/h1>\n
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