tenement

Dark, chaotic hiddened back allay, fewer balcony

Respecting the grid shape of street blocks, tenement building often have the same orientation or even similar shape

Bright,smoother and cleaner cantilived out facade surface closer to the street and be a part of streetscape

As Tenement don’t have podium resisdent would easily get int

Podiums

Podiums restricted pedestrian path, and also keeping residents away from the community, especially for the type with podium mall.

Hiding the community from the towers.

The Podiums are actually drilling holes in the city, which slowly remove the orginal indentity of surroundings.

Level of layers

The land near coastline is obviously a major developed zone, extend from Tsim Sha Tsui to Kai Tat, with a lot of parks, beautiful walkways and resisdential buildings, they just like a skin Surrounding the Old City.

Abstract

An archipelago is a group of islands set in an ocean that divide them. Each island is a part of the whole composition and works together.

Undergoing a series of reconstructions of old street blocks, the community of Kowloon City District reforms. There are also new residential complexes scattered around the city. With such huge ‘obstacles’, the pedestrian’s habits are redefined.

The podiums level worked as islands and the pedestrian level as the sea. Although the facilities are bigger and connected physically, but seems the communities are further fragmented an defined with new layers.