VERTICAL STRUGGLE A02200-ÂARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2B LIVE AND WORK BUILDING UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE WONG HO HIN (BENJAMIN)
ROLE OF SHAM SHUI PO- POST-INDUSTRIAL, COMTEMPORARY
ROLE OF SHAM SHUI PO (INDUSTRIAL PERIOD) Sham Sui Po was the earliest development community. British government planned a zone to group Hongkongers as a crowd according to the tactics. Since the reason of the real estate, the zone was formed a gridiron system for sale. Residences and working places were in the same place, shophouse's life pattern appears in the region at the earliest.
BUFFER ZONE
Owing to the political situation was unstable in early industry period, British government developed Tsim Sha Tsui and Hong Kong Island intently. Mong Kok was planned as a buffer zone to guard Hong Konger as a tactic Emphasis, all of the main facilities such as barrack and British building was planned in Sha Tsui and Hong Kong Island.
WHITFIELD BARRACKS
ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH FORMER MARINE POLICE HEADQUARTERS
THE PENINSULA HONG KONG HOTEL
RESIDENCE LIVING ROOM OR WORKSHOP BUSINESS
The tactics is pointless today, the role of Sham Shui Po have changed. Many Hongkongers are no longer living here, Many South Asians, Indian, low income family and elder live in here instead of general family in this zone, the house-shop system is running but coming to wane. the steel hut system with hawker is also existing but lack of cottage industry. the change is Sham Shui Po was developed a collect point system, a large number of recycle store set up in the region, the system is formed by South Asians, Indian and elders, you can see the trolley with elders is in everywhere, second-hand electric equipment, packs of tin and recycle papers place on the street, the recycle system was ran by local residents. Oppositely, we buy the brand-new electrical products in Apliu Street and Golden Computer Center, some people may be fashion course student buy cotton material, button in wholesale store, we become to the outsiders, Sham Sui Po was mutually isolated by outsider and local residents. That is what we find the invisible movement in Sham Shui Po.
Our site looks towards nam cheong street. the middle of street is an nullah in the preindustrial stage. The shop in the street was mainly furniture retailing.The amount of usage is relatively low. The transportation is mainly rickshaws and bicycles and vehicles.
The group of steel huts had been demolished before it was built a park, the situation is maintained constant .Oteribulii pliurbis et atuus consum que conente no. Tum ad in tam dit priciem enatum es viribus cepopublicae comniciam Romnox moris. Bus, no. Il unu me menerniris senihiliam inestravocam in tastem The nullah was been filled up by British government at the after period. A large number of hawkers occupy the street and built the steel huts. The government is out of control in terms of hygiene and fire prevention.
STREET- MORPHOLOGIES The gridiron system has already controlled the whole of morphologies of Sham Shui Po including transportation, living environment. Moreover, the above main streets affect the live style, many outsiders who are not local resident but as a HongKonger, their purposes are chiefly for buying some goods such as computer's component, electric equipment and its component, clothes...etc, the streets are directly affect the pedestrian flow and density.
DEVELOPMENT OF SHAM SHUI PO (RESETTLEMENT AREA) 1950 - 1998 (Squatter areas) Squatter areas after Shek Kip Mei fire
Before 1950
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Squatters in Hong Kong at the end of the 1940s began to increase. The reason is not just the original homes in the war are mostly destroyed, more important is the subsequent outbreak of the civil war in mainland China, a large number of refugees flooding into Hong Kong.
2016 1954 - 2001 (Resettlement areas)
Resettlement area originated in 1953, Shek Kip Mei fire, after the Hong Kong government to build multi-storey buildings ("resettlement blocks") to resettle victims, that is Hong Kong's first public housing "Shek Kip Mei resettlement area".
Most of the old public housing has been demolished, replaced by new houses.
RECLAMATION OF SHAM SHUI PO
1963
1963 RECLAMATION LINE
1963 RECLAMATION LINE 1980 RECLAMATION LINE 1980
DEVELOPMENT OF SHUM SHUI PO 1820-1920
1924
BRITISH PLANNING SHAM SHUI PO AS CONNECTION OF KOWLOON AND NEW TERRITORIESW
UNDEVELOPED DISTRICT BEFORE BRITISH OCCUPANCY
AFTER SECOND WORLD WAR WEST OF YEN CHOW STREET STILL IS UNDEVELOPED DISTRICT PEI HO STREET ALREADY HAVE SIZABLE MARKET
1990
1964
SHEK KIP MEI SQUATTER AREA FIRE GOVERNMENT BUILD A ESTATE FOR SETTLE DOWN RESIDENT THE PRECURSOR OF UN CHAU ESTATE IS A RESETTLEMENT AREA FOR INCREASE OF POPULATION RECLAMATION OF EAST OF TONKIN STREET IS PROCESSING
1947
IN 1977 FIRST LAND RECLAMATION HAPPENED ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF YEN CHOW STREET IN 90s WEST KOWLOON CORRIDOR HAS BEEN BUILT DIVDED NEW LAND BY FLYOVER REMIND FOR BUILD HOUSING.WEST OF YEN CHOW STREET PLANNING FOR WHOLESALE FOOD MARKET, LARGE SCALE PARK OR PUBLIC HOUSING.
2008
IN 1994 DRAGON CENTRE HAS BEEN BUILT BECOME SHUM SHUI PO COMMUNITY CENTRE
ROOF CULTURE IN SHAM SHUI PO Sham Shui Po has four main lifestyles. The first layer is Roof-top house, it looks like a membrane attached on the top of Tong Lau from aerial view. The upper life of roof and bottom shophouse form a special urban pattern.
ROOF CULTURE IN SHAM SHUI
British government set up roof top primary in
resettlement Area in order to enhance education level, it becomes an interesting scenes during 1950's to 1980's.
During the 1950’s and 1960’s,roof cultcure is a important social contact place, its main function is to dry the
Today, government reconstructs Sham Shui Po district, roof
houses are disappearing gradually. The residents who live in roof house were protesting against rebuilding. They popularize organic planting and pickling at the roof of Tong lau. Hope to the roof culture and their home can be retained.
LIFE STYLE IN SHAM SHUI PO
High residential building are built increasingly in
Sham Shui Po recently. It is mainly reconstructive policy of government. The buildings often provide terraces for viewing scenery. High decorative residences are misfit with old district. The high level building penetrates the low level membrane of Tong Lau.
Roof-top houses are built on the top of building,
it has witnessed the problem of housing supply in the past. The majority of Roof-top houses are illegal structure in Hong Kong. People living in subdivided flats are mainly unemployed citizens,
Shophouse, it is located at the lowest level of Subdivided flats (also called
subdivided units) are a ubiquitous kind of rental housing present in Hong Kong. They are flats which shown on the original approved plan of a building being subdivided into two or more individual rooms. Most subdivided flats are located in Tong Lau old residential buildings. It is estimated that 280,000 people live in subdivided flats or other similarly undesirable conditions. With reference to the study by the Society for Community Organisation, people living in subdivided flats are mainly unemployed citizens, low income family, new immigrants, etc. The average size of a subdivided flat is found to be 30 square feet per person.
membrane. It has been dominating the local economy for many years. Today, the style has gradually declined in presence. A new shop replaces the lowest layer of urban pattern.
COLLECT FOR RECYCLE
COLLECT FOR SELLCOLLECT FOR RECYCLE
Shopkeepers collect household waste from resident for recycling, local residents earn money by providing the waste to recycled shop. Furthermore, the collect points are divided into two types which are movable shop and fixed shop, those movable points surrounded Pei Ho Street, Ki Lung Street, Tai Nan Street and Yu Chau Street, they drive the trucks to collect and resell the second hand goods for the low income residents.
In Sham Shui Po, a large number of collect spots recycle the supplies and recycled stuffs for reselling those second hand products with a cheaper price. Most common products which are electric equipments and miscellaneous articles usually resell on the second hand market of Apliu Street. The state of absorption and release is most often in that place. Collect waste for recycle and you can earn money from provide the waste to collect shop, lots of Shum Shui Po citzen always sell waste to the shop. Futhermore, collect point is seperate in two type; movable and shop those movable points are surrounding with Pei Ho Street, Ki Lung Street, Tai Nan Street and Yu Chau Street.
Self-Isolation Many Hongkongers are no longer living here, Many South Asians, Indian, low income family and elder live in here instead of general family in this zone, the house-shop system is running but coming to wane. The steel hut system with hawker is also existing but lack of cottage industry. the change is Sham Shui Po was developed a collect point system, a large number of recycle store set up in the region, the system is formed by South Asians, Indian and elders, you can see the trolley with elders is in everywhere, second-hand electric equipment, packs of tin and recycle papers place on the street, the recycle system was ran by local residents. Oppositely, we buy the brand-new electrical products inApliu Street and Golden Computer Center, some people may be fashion course student buy cotton material, button in wholesale store, we become to the outsiders, Sham Sui Po was mutually isolated by outsider and local residents. That is what we find the invisible movement in Sham Shui Po.
The installation show the status of recycle system, one object changes the shape and its original function to the other, a useless stuff is given a new interpretation to continue its function by the Recycling shop, the recycle system dominates the district and support a low living index of the district, that is why there are many southern Asian and low income family live in here.
Hiddlen plants in an alley
Although Sham Shui Po is a concrete jungle, we found many trees and plant attach on the building facade. It is very beautiful, nature attempt to adapt artifact. The plants are unapparent, they hide from beneath our eyes, but they are authentically change the cityscape. It would be a new way to enhance the quality of life in Sham Shui Po.
Form development diagram
PURIFY THE MIND AND BODY
What is Bonsai art ?
Bonsai is a fascinating art-form that combines horticultural techniques and Asian aesthetics in a unique way. The art riginates in the Chinese empire and was copied and adapted by the Japanese to what we know now as Bonsai trees. Literally translated "bon-sai" means "planted in a container". I choose Japanese bonsai art as my client's craft, students could focus on its treatment against for bonsai, they will forget temporarily nuisance, to purify their mind and body.
PANDEMONIUM
LIVE AND WORK PROCESS
PERSONAL WORKSHOP MEDITATION FOR OWNER
Two kind of building are mainly to affect an overall arrangement of Sham Shui Po in terms of grid system, they block the main street, the old building facades without maintenance were built two side of the road, different type of streets and shopping malls lead to too many people gathered on the streets. Since Sham Shui Po is an interchange between Kowloon and New Territories, it is very busy in whole day. It's sheer or absolute pandemonium. Since the environment the environment is very poor, the mental and spirit will speedily feeble when people lived in here in a long period........
WORK SHOP FOR TRAINEE RETAIL SHOP
SHOW ROOM
The site has already proposed a hint to interpret a new way of life style. we found many trees and plant attach on the building facade, they grow sturdily, the roots have perforated and break open the facade, to adapt the concrete jungle. The plant struggled with artificial things. The nature is well integrated with its surroundings. It would be a metaphor that the group of racial minority and social vulnerable groups struggle for their life.
SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT All of the spaces are obliquely separated with the adjacent including habitation and working space, the building facades are also mutually separated from the building. The tree and bonsai are cultivated to the gap of facade. Void is proposed to be a design strategy for natural lighting and all of the openings are built inwardly.Water feature is arranged into the building to purify the environment.
The house adopts sui generis way, the void is applied in the right of centre and is surrounded by the main circulation. Ground floor and first floor is retailed space and workshop, second and third floor is living space, it includes a communal room, bedroom and meditation room. All of spaces and structures are twisted by the trees and other plants, its purpose is to interpret how does the nature adapt the artifact (concrete jungle). The house is passed through front and back, Its purpose is to provide ventilation and the view of behind of landscape.
1. RETAIL ROOM 2. CASHIER 3. SHOW ROOM 4. WORK SHOP (FOR POTTERY) 5. FURNACE ROOM 6. WORK SHOP (FOR BONSAI) 7. PUMP ROOM 8. LARGE COMMUNAL ROOM 9. KITCHEN 10. TOILET 11. PERSONAL WORK SHOP 12. BEDROOM 13. MEDITATION ROOM 14. CHIMNEY
Landscape The lawn with gradient permeates with building structure, it is also planted the small tree surrounded the villa. The facade has a special pattern through the concrete formwork. It represents the roots and artificial thing merged into a mixture, the corrosive steel show on the building facade to reveal the raw mood.
The bonsai and other plants are completely merged in the building. A organic mixture is interpreted in Sham Shui Po again. The house faces to Nam Cheong Street, the display windows are set in front of house to remain a high transparency. The rear landscape can be looked from Nam Cheong Street. Since the external environment cannot be controlled, all of the windows is opened towards the inner part.