SIGNITECTURE :

SIGNITECTURE

vertical community residential+market

a vertical community residential market, which is a transformable space for both commercial and residential., with maximizing the role of advertisement in the mega dense commercial area. Where it is a renovation of the previous Ladies market.

The project is focusing on the use of signage with in the dense commercial area, as well as to maximize the space in terms of density, not just the amount but the function.

Ladies Market - The density of commercial context

Ladies market, one of the most well known market for tourism in Hongkong, Located in Tungchoi road, with over 600 small shops that sells from giftshop, cloths, toys, and countless items.

Ladies market is is well known for the density of shopper, but besides from the crowded tourist, 

shops, items and signage are also very dense.

the aspect of the Ladies market that is fully dense of small shops and selling items have now begin to lesser down the importance of architecture and signage, which is serve as something very important element in the commerical context.

Ladies market atmosphere 

Living in 4 sq.m.

The concept of one continuous surface which  allow the user to perform different household activities, including, toilet, washing, cooking, area of sitting, sleeping, eating and working.

under the surface are serve as different type of storage, from cooking utensil, hanging cloths and other un-use items.

Based from the analysis of human gesture, generate into the functional space where the negative area perform an circulation (base on the human gesture) of the room as well as the primary furniture where user can perform an ordinary household activities.

maximize the capacity of the storage space by using the positive area 

(area where doesn't involve human circulation), to storage all the necessary items.

Body Gestures and Object Necessities

                       

The diagram describe the body movement that is use on that particular space-in relations to the use object, The diagram structure is arrange according to the necessity and time-of-use on different activities.

The 3 dimensional representation of the "space volume"- based on the analysis series of movement,
shows the overall contact surface of the space, where the red cube reperesent a functional space.
and the brightness shows the relation of necessity and time.

The diagram also shows a mult-fuctional object, where the space of the object has been modify to use as other funtions. and even some smaller object need to stay close as a group, due to its function of use with the electrical socket.