A CITY WITHOUT GROUND

A CITY WITHOUT GROUND

This elevated network acts like a complete district network where it connects and goes through all types of existing buildings together in different levels. It also provides different architectural spaces on the network such as, studying, advertisement, exhibition, and leisure spaces. Residential units are plugged onto the network by the green area for good view and ventilation. It is connected to the adjacent buildings for access with buildings' vertical circulation as well.

CITIES WITHOUT GROUND

 Hong Kong has been called " Cities Without Ground ", with its elevated walkway connecting different typologies of buildings among different districts together. It is the main pedestrian network of Hong Kong people. 

Looking at the relationships between private and public pedestrian network at Mongkok neighbourhood.

Overlapping the three levels of pedestrian network together to see the intersected connections between both private and public networks; still less intersections are found.

So, " what if there are more intersections and connections between the 3 levels? "

Looking at the elevated walkway and MTR station in a smaller scale. Transient programs are found with various different activities and add-on materials between the two different districts; Mongkok and Central. The main users are maids coming from area they are working or living in. As a result, this shows that there is already a mix-use of pedestrian infrastructure going on, so it is not a problem to create more mix-use and public space along the public pedestrian network.

The chosen neighbourhood shows the area with potential of building the new public pedestrian infrastructure. The neighbourhood includes various types of building typologies, 3 levels of pedestrian network, together with a lot of MTR exits. Eight selected buildings are selected as the nodes of connection, each is different in terms of typologies and levels of monthly household income as for the possibility of connecting different levels of people together as a result.

The 4sq.m House

Phase 2 of the DenCity project is a design experiment of small dwelling.

This 4 sq.m. dwelling has been designed under the idea of body movement curvature.   

Exploded axonometric of the house meant to show the activities underneath which 

determine the curve and height of the overall outcome. Dealing with the limited 

living space the minimum volume that considered sufficient for certain activity 

was adopted and used in the design as well. 

Images above portray the series of events in daily routine which corporate with the

transformation of the house itself to serve each activity. Moreover, openings in each 

spot have been determined by surrounding context as well as activities underneath in order to provide inhabitant the highest comfort as possible.

Relationships between Human - Object - Space

This diagram mainly emphasizes on the relationships between human, objects and space. On the first stage, the aim was to try overlapping the body movements on each activities as to study the traces of use on the objects in daily life as well as the limit of the body on each activities. 

Then, the needed comfortable volume of space for each activities were illustrated as to show how much volume of space I really needed ( smaller scale than average people ).

Then, the quality of each object was studied as to show its frequency, necessity, and duration. The next stage was to try extracting these information together with the comfortable volume of space to form the possible different combinations of activities as the aim was to lift up the quality of the objects, so that more surface of objects will be used more with smaller volume of space as a result.