公共 之四：公眾之家
COMMONS IV: PUBLIC HOMES
港大建築 2024 秋二年級設計工作室
HKU FALL 2024 YEAR 2 DESIGN STUDIO
"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed," Italo Calvino's Marco Polo asserts, in a remark strikingly apropos of Hong Kong. Public spaces, too, can perhaps also be regarded as a rebus that projects a city's desires and fears, although it is likely to be a rebus of a particularly complex kind. The urban density of Hong Kong produces unique physical adjacency of spaces and psychological distancing among its people. The size of many homes is reduced to such a minimum that people would make themselves comfortable in public as if at home. We peek into the homes of neighbors, share dim sum tables with strangers, and skin-to-skin with people in elevator carts that we have never spoken to. To design public space in Hong Kong, one has to go beyond the public-private opposition and explore a more nuanced relationship between the public objects, subjects, and their context.
COMMONS IV: PUBLIC HOMES
港大建築 2024 秋二年級設計工作室
HKU FALL 2024 YEAR 2 DESIGN STUDIO
"With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed," Italo Calvino's Marco Polo asserts, in a remark strikingly apropos of Hong Kong. Public spaces, too, can perhaps also be regarded as a rebus that projects a city's desires and fears, although it is likely to be a rebus of a particularly complex kind. The urban density of Hong Kong produces unique physical adjacency of spaces and psychological distancing among its people. The size of many homes is reduced to such a minimum that people would make themselves comfortable in public as if at home. We peek into the homes of neighbors, share dim sum tables with strangers, and skin-to-skin with people in elevator carts that we have never spoken to. To design public space in Hong Kong, one has to go beyond the public-private opposition and explore a more nuanced relationship between the public objects, subjects, and their context.
Students
Chow Hiu Lam Carby, Ip Chung Kiu, Kao Kayleigh, Kwok Kwan Kwan, Lam Lok Kan, Law Ting Bong Titus, Li Man Wai Chloris, Li Yueming, Mallorca Alyssa Katherine Magallanes, Yim King Ngai
Critics
Midterm Review
Emily Po, Thomas Tsang, You Wu, Haotian Zhang, Frankie Au
Final Review
He Jianxiang, Emily Po, Zuo Long, Zhu Tao, Zhao Yang, Weijen Wang
Nelson Chen, Tianying Li, You Wu
Emily Po, Thomas Tsang, You Wu, Haotian Zhang, Frankie Au
Final Review
He Jianxiang, Emily Po, Zuo Long, Zhu Tao, Zhao Yang, Weijen Wang
Nelson Chen, Tianying Li, You Wu
