(non)Park

scheme & prototype that helps HK citizens to establish a truly public space by occupying slope, Hong Kong Spring 2023

Tutor: Merve Anil and George Massoud

+ Right to the City

The (non)park, tool to provide Hong Kong citizens ‘the right to the city’, is a scheme & prototype that helps establish a truly public space through acquiring underperform privatised lands, using landslide protection as cover.

By reading power through government owned and funded parks, the thesis argues that colonial powers, whether Britain or China, have always used the public parks as tool to colonise culture and identity on Hong Kong.

The project, is a park by Hong Kong and for Hong Kong, that questions the true form of public space which allows Hong Kong identity to emerge through its occupation. The project proposed strips of minimum infrastructure that hold voids in between. And the naturally formed Bamboo forest in the framed void, became a tool for the community to shape their ideal form of public space, that are free from the surveillance and control.

+ C I R C L E

40000 m² urban planning in urban context Summer 2017

Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara

+ ANTI URBANISATION

Urban Village is no longer a new terminology, but in fact, the phenomenal existence of such urban fabric only happened in the recent era. Urban Village, or Village in City, refers to the the spatial urban-phenomenal existence of a rural village surrounded by newly developed urban land during top down development and transformation of a city (Zhou, 2014). The cause of the phenomenon can be categorised into two main reasons. The first reason is economical incentives, i.e. overspeed development where development of fabric unable to catch up with the economical development. The second reason is historical protection measure by the government (Zhou, 2014). The existence of such unique urban fabric had created several negative impact to the local government and also the development of the city. Low city image can be brought by non-hygienic environment, and economic barrier can be created by the constrain of land use for further development.

As the site is located in the urban village, the URBAN PLANNING project aim to stand against the urbanisation that going to immerse and engulf the city’s origin, city’s culture by showing the strong manifesto of protest. The project created a megastructure, visually disconnecting the set from the urbanised surrounding, while introducing different interaction between people to weaken the solid separation.

Process & Strategies

Lack of Social Space as Nodes

Identify the new street system after illegal housings demolished

Identify the illegal housing that should be demolished

Identify the Primary Path which goes through all Large Social Space

Creating Large Social Spaces as public spaces, nodes

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Open up courtyards besides the secondary path as semipublic spaces and add programs

40000 m² urban planning in urban context

Summer 2017

Tutor: Hiroyuki Shinohara

Team member: Yang ZHANG + PRESENTATION

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Nolli Map

Masterplan

The new Nolli Map after intervention is being created to demonstrated the circulation flow of the site after CLEANS UP. Some of the illegal building is demolished and the structure of the road system is now more clear with public to semi private to private road. Some of the open spaces are also being provided to create opportunities for outdoor activities

The new Masterplan after intervention is being created to demonstrated the circulation flow of the site after CLEANS UP. Some of the illegal building is demolished and the structure of the road system is now more clear with public to semi private to private road. Some of the open also being provided to create opportunities for outdoor activities

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Sections of the wall +

Criteria & Sections

+ GC4.3

Abstract Ceremonial Journey is important according to the previous research on ashram. The collage drawing of the space was then created by following the abstract form of the ashram, a main journey and other supporting facilities. In order to maximise the symbolism meaning of the ceremonial perception, the functions are being completely isolated form the Journey. In other words, the journey only serves as the journey only. The drawing illustrated the journey on top, with curve element , and the supporting facilities underneath. This does not decrepit the for but only the program relationship.