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the issue:

EXPLORE THE EXISTANCE. the first jury.

M A R K E T . A V E N U E O F C U LT U R A L E X C H A N G E The first attempt of the project was to explore the poThe presetation was supported by various types of vitential of markets as an avenue of cultural exchange sual elements, including movies, models, photo monEspecially in the context of aberdeen waterfront, tages. where special quality is defined by the dynamic changes of nature and human.

the issue:

A PHYSICAL BARRIER the second jury.

There is an invisible bound-

the magazine island The magazine island, despite neglected its massive scale and history as

the

fishing dynamite storage, was the

fading

along

with

identity

floating

ary surrounding the island

of among all the physical bound-

village.

aries in the Aberdeen district.

By

physically

walling the island, would such boundary

be

transformed into a connection between the contemporary

Ab-

erdeen and the floating village identity?

How

would the magazine island being transformed from neglectance into

constance

expectations?

the story:

THE FINAL TRIAL the third jury.

n e g l e ct e d e x p e ctat i o n s The fishing culture is discreting from the contemporary Ab- erdeen. There has been an

invisible

barrier

between

the

float-

ing village and the Aberdeen residents.

Could the creation and deformation of a physical barrier of the abandoned magazine island, which was once participating in the fishing industry, somehow becoming a re-connector of the contemporary HK residents and the old floating village? Could the reactivation of the island in 50 years time reconstruct the 500 years old fishing industry of Aberdeen?

the final pieces

THE NEGLECTED EXPECTAITONS for the final review.

island magazine the island magazine is a promotion, an education on the value of the project to the aberdeen communities.

The four issues gradually explain the issue, the explorations and the experimentation of the project, and its impace to the community.

this colsing:

THE NEGLECTED EXPECTATIONS acknoelwdgement.

s i n c e r e a p p r e c i at i o n f o r t h e t h e s i s p r o j e ct s g o e s to t h e s i s s u p e rv i s o r , M r . T h o m a s T s a n g , K e n n et h I p , B rya n L a u , R o n a l d K a m , my pa r e nt s a n d f r i e n d s f o r a l l t h e i r g r a c i o u s s u p p o rt .

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' e n g l e ct e d e x p e ctat i o n s " hku arch march2 thesis e di to r : c h e ng m a n y i ng advisor: thomas Tsang