Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Special report study entitled: Adaptability in convention and exhibition center. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Special report study entitled : Adaptability in convention and exhibition center. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

As spotlighted urban occurrences of significant global influence, mega-events such as the Olympics and the Expos usually create a great demand for mega-event flagships (MEFs). These purpose-built cultural, civic or sports landmarks not only serve as prominent event venues but often play a catalytic role in long-conceived renewal initiatives on a much broader scale. Lacking no successful event stories, it is not unusual to hear prominent post-event failures in MEFs. Despite its lasting appeal, such a highly controversial and challenging development has received surprisingly little in-depth analysis in existing literature. Academic interests have long concentrated on assessing impacts rather than profiling risks. Moreover, to realize such a dually oriented initiative clearly needs a competitive organization. Yet, this driving force behind becomes another understatement. Apart from tangential studies on western-based practices, pinpoint research is rare in emerging economies towards which MEFs are shifting their grounds. Such a triple imbalance may likely keep ambitious yet inexperienced hosts ignorant of tremendous risks behind overstated rewards. To argue that MEFs should be pre-post oriented than treated simply as a legacy issue, this study presents four landmark cases of Expo 2010 Shanghai China – a mega-event as not only a crowning touch to China’s thirty-year economic rise but a catalyst for Shanghai’s renaissance towards a global center. As the centerpieces of this mega-undertaking, the Big Four (the Big4) represent the largest MEF cluster in history and the latest epitome of major projects of national significance. To explore how the Organizer has forged the sixty-year vision beyond the six-month extravaganza, participant observation is adopted due to the author’s special role as a key project coordinator of Expo 2010 during the early stages of the Big4. In gaining more useful insights for future practices, this multiple-case study takes the following three steps. First, rationales and practices of MEF development are analyzed through a historical review of eight selected cases of mega-event built legacies in five countries over 150 years. Next, programming practices of MEFs and non-MEFs in China are investigated through a pilot questionnaire survey in 2009. Finally, the 600,000-sq.m Big4 are explored respectively and collectively against the ongoing Trilogy of the Huangpu Riverfronts Renewal. Multifold findings from previous and present cases confirm the hypothesis that MEF development is rather an issue of dualism than dichotomy. To meet existing and emerging challenges, a framework plan is developed containing four approaches and ten steps key to the vitality of MEFs. Conclusions are made from both local and global dimensions. Four major breakthroughs, two pressing problems and two emerging trends are identified for major project developments in China; whereas six essential conditions to sustain MEF development are generalized for significantly comparable cases worldwide. A timely reminder of rethinking the commitment to MEFs and a much-needed complement to related western literature, this pioneering research would be of cross-boundary value and spark interdisciplinary interest. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Thesis (Master)--İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves. 87-89).

Wong Hoi Lui Helen. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-91). / Acknowledgements / Synopsis / Exploration / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2.0 --- Background / Chapter 2.1 --- Cultural Background --- p.3 / Chapter 2.2 --- What is architecture? --- p.4 / Chapter 2.3 --- Hong Kong Architecture --- p.5 / Chapter 2.4 --- Summary of Precendent Studies --- p.7 / Chapter 3.0 --- Client Profile / Chapter 3.1 --- Definition of Architect --- p.9 / Chapter 3.2 --- Profile of HKIA & Young Architects League --- p.11 / Chapter 4.0 --- Users Profile --- p.15 / Chapter 5.0 --- Site / Chapter 5.1 --- Criteria of site selection --- p.16 / Chapter 5.2 --- Site Options --- p.17 / Chapter 5.3 --- Physical Conditions --- p.19 / Chapter 5.4 --- Site Constraints --- p.20 / Chapter 5.5 --- Site Analysis / Chapter 5.51 --- Views --- p.22 / Chapter 5.52 --- Context --- p.23 / Chapter 5.53 --- Landuse --- p.24 / Chapter 5.54 --- Circulation --- p.25 / Chapter 5.55 --- Vegetation / Topology --- p.27 / Chapter 6.0 --- Problems and Opportunities --- p.28 / Composition / Chapter 7.0 --- Hypothesis --- p.29 / Chapter 8.0 --- "Mission, Issues and Goals" --- p.31 / Chapter 9.0 --- Design Programme --- p.32 / Chapter 10.0 --- Schedule of accommodation --- p.33 / Chapter 11.0 --- Diagrams of Spatial Relationship --- p.35 / Chapter 12.0 --- Design Strategies --- p.36 / Proposition / Chapter 13.0 --- Design Development / Chapter 13.1 --- Design Process --- p.38 / Chapter 14.0 --- Final Design --- p.45 / Chapter 14.1 --- Final Words --- p.49 / Appendix / Chapter 1.0 --- Programme for the centre --- p.49 / Chapter 2.0 --- Programme for the portable structure --- p.59 / Chapter 3.0 --- Antiquity --- p.62 / Chapter 4.0 --- Precendent Studies --- p.67 / Chapter 5.0 --- Interviews with practicing architects --- p.85 / Chapter 6.0 --- Final Presentation / Chapter 7.0 --- Bibliography --- p.90

A critical culture requires that the site of appearance, the temporal coincidence of the subject, the object and the site, be acknowledged as a ground for meaning. Through a built investigation and a theoretical address this thesis examines the site of appearance for contemporary creative practice; the extent to which it continues to be defined by and contained within the conceptual frame of the Enlightenment aesthetic as the privileged discourse of the object. In a detailed analysis of the architecture of the exhibition, the 18th century Academy Salon and the Parisian bourgeois hotel are juxtaposed with examples from the late 20th century practice of site-specific exhibition. This comparison reveals an essential connection between art and architecture, between architectural form and social representation. An alternative concept of the exhibition as a site of appearance thereby acknowledges individual, temporally specific interpretation as a potential ground for critical discourse within the contemporary art institution.

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Tsang Wai Ying, Martha. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report." / "May 2010." / Chapter CHAPETER 0 --- BACKGROUND / Chapter - --- Interest of studies / Chapter - --- Lifecycle + Lifespan / Chapter CHAPETER 1 --- THESIS STATEMENT / Chapter CHAPETER 2 --- PRECEDENT STUDIES - THE PRODUCTS' CYCLE / Chapter - --- Material transformation / Chapter - --- Artist artworks with daily product / Chapter - --- Recycle Architecture / Chapter CHAPETER 3 --- IN SEARCH OF - DAILY PRODUCTS FOR ARCHITECTURE / Chapter - --- Dally product research / Chapter - --- Containers + Pallets / Chapter CHAPETER 4 --- PALLETS / Chapter - --- Pallets system / Chapter - --- Geometry study / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DESIGN / Chapter - --- programme / Chapter - --- short lifespan extension through repetitve use / Chapter - --- long lifespan extension through modification / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONSTRUCTION / Chapter - --- pallets as tool for construction / Chapter - --- connection / Chapter - --- cost / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- SPECIAL STUDIES - ENVELOPE AS LAYERS OF PROTECTION

Man Kwok Fai Ronald. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1997-98, design report." / Acknowledgement / Hypothesis / Project Fact / The Brief / Client / Site/Context / Design Process / Contextual Scale / Target / Response / Building Scale / Target / Concept / Treatment / Details Scale / HVAC / Means of escape / Shading elemant / Appendix

Keung Chau Yu Alice. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102). / Stage 1 --- p.p4-p14 / What is Caligraphy? / The Emergence of Caligraphy? / The Three Traditions of Caligraphy? / Background of the Project: / Facts / Value / Project Goals / Mission / Issues / Caligraphy + Architecture = Calitecture / Proposed Site 1 / "Pak Sha O Village, Sai Kung" / Schedule of Accomodations / Proposed Client / Alpha Beta Club / Precedent / "Wagramerstrasse, Vienna, Eric Owen Moss" / Stage 2 --- p.p15-p26 / The process of caligraphy writing 1 / The process of caligraphy writing 2 / The process of caligraphy writing 3 / Explorations on stroke-writing / Chinese caligraphic Tools / Content of Writing / What am I looking at/have observed / process / A Narrative of Caligraphy Writing / Analysis 1 / Anaiysis 2 / Analysis 3 / Stage 3 --- p.p27-p30 / Introduction / Installation -A Simulation Process / Stage 4 --- p.p31-p40 / Introduction / Special Features / Conservation / Recreation / Fishing / Tidal Change / Getting There / A Narrative of Marine Biology Study / A Narrative of Diving / A Narrative of Hiking / A Narrative of Caligraphy Writing / An Impression of Site from Caligrapher's eyes / Stage 5 --- p.p41-47 / Facts & Issues Development / Caligraphy + Architecture = Calitecture / Stage 6 --- p.P48-59 / Design Proposal / design concept --- p.-p49 / design development --- p.-p50-59 / Final Design / schedule of accommodation --- p.-p60 / site setting out --- p.-p61 / building plans --- p.-p62-63 / movement pattern --- p.-p64-65 / building models --- p.-p66-67 / Stage7 --- p.p68-79 / Construction / general structure --- p.-p69-70 / special structure --- p.-p71-72 / construction sequence --- p.-p73 / Environmental / use of energy --- p.-p74 / waste water treatment system --- p.-p75 / water use strategy --- p.-p76-77 / sun tracking device --- p.-p78 / Life Safety / means of escape --- p.-p78 / feedback --- p.-p79 / Appendix / sketches --- p.-p80-91 / calligraphy exploration --- p.-p92-101 / Bibliography --- p.p102