或
你
在香港很
多，
香港主義是
香港主義(一)
HONG-KONGISM I 每個地方都有其獨特的建築特色，紐約的標 誌是外牆上鐵鑄的走火梯，三藩市就有不同 型狀的窗台，邁亞米是Art deco，倫敦是高科 技，至於香港，最有代表性的建築特色又是什 麼呢？ Wherever you go, each city is recognised to have its distinct architectural design – from the fire stairs of New York City’s, San Francisco’s bay windows, Miami’s Art deco style, to London’s futuristic architecture – so what then is Hong Kong’s signature architectural trademark?
了，已經
香港的每一個 政
，地產商提出的
香港地
特別高
，情
，在建築
的奇
，不 其
與地產商在這幾
大的 台
以為 ，是名
年聯手創
是「 不
，一分一 作
建面
其 ，政
」。「 的
是極
特色，不
設計
特，而
當統一，加上
之
這城市的香港主義。
出來的
」和「發
變得更 以
覺香港的 代
建面
，
」的意 也不能
計入
出 是 過。「發
面
。因
目，
建築
建面
，這情
」的定義是
「發
」變
為政
，地產商就提供 其
。為了
在每個地方也會發生，
建築物的
分，
送給地產商的
取最 而
於
台、環保
物，地產商
給
家
。 和發
台。要分
M
的
是，建築
完全為建築
所主導，創意的
一律。香港主義的特色是
極高、
面
這
，就要
設計
一
的奇特建築
間變得
，有時 後的推
力
分
至過 香港的
， 雜 建築
因 本設計
統一，這 包括光
、
了香港的
建築為
台、環保
台和大平
。
aybe we’ve all been living in Hong Kong for too long and have gotten too accustomed to the way of living that we become less observant to our surroundings – especially when it comes to the distinctiveness of the varied architectural structures of the many
Hong Kong housing estates, where each have its own unique look. The sheer numbers of these buildings that tower over us at every corner of Hong Kong are in fact the very iconic representations of our vibrant city. The main principles behind developing our unique housing estates were first conceptualized by the government and property developers over these past few decades. While the government oversaw the conceptualization by setting regulations and guidelines, property developers supposedly provided the concept and design that will best maximize whatever resources that was available amidst the strict regulations. The solution proposed by these property developers was to oversell and blow things out of proportion – with an exhaustion of buildable area, which in fact is a common occurrence everywhere with the situation being particularly serious in Hong Kong, a sub inch of buildable area is also not to be missed; the definition of “inflated” is: Some parts of the building, such as bay windows, green terraces, etc., can be exempted under the building regulations are not counted as buildable area, but still included in the saleable area. The government gave the developers a boon, developers sell the goods on users.
Text / Daniel Ng . Translation / Lilian Tong . Art / Timothy Chan
With the “inflated” phenomena of developing, this ended up in making the design completely dominated by the building’s ordinance, where room for creativity becomes very limited and hence the uniformity of the overall style. Extremely high density and overly developed façade design - are the common characters of Hong Kongism; its basic design components include light well, bay windows, green terrace and working platform. To analyze this unique architectural language, we should look at the driving force behind the design - Hong Kong Buildings Ordinance.
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