Lo Kit Ting, Korrie. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leave 92). / Chapter Part 1.0 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Beginning relevance / Chapter 1.2 --- "Statement - Planning of the people, for the people, by the people" / Chapter Part 2.0 --- Site selection - Northern Tin Shui Wai (TSW) / Chapter 2.1 --- Overview in Tin Shui Wai / Chapter 2.2 --- Basic problems in Northern Tin Shui Wai / Chapter Part 3.0 --- Descriptions of major themes and terms and research relevance / Chapter 3.1 --- Keys term reference / Chapter 3.2 --- Character of different urban form / Chapter 3.3 --- """Place'""/Urbanism in Hong Kong" / Chapter Part 4.0 --- Interpretation of missing planning layer / Chapter 4.1 --- Humans needs / Chapter 4.2 --- Layer in planning / Chapter 4.3 --- Design method: use layer 3 to achieve layer 4 / Chapter Part 5.0 --- Basic principle / Chapter 5.1 --- Making opportunities / Chapter 5.2 --- Intensity / Chapter 5.3 --- Connectivity / Chapter 5.4 --- Complementary / Chapter Part 6.0 --- Exploration of design strategy (Term 1) / Chapter 6.1 --- Started form humanity - Human interest point / Chapter 6.2 --- Study strategies / Chapter 6.3 --- Consolidation of strategies / Chapter Part 7.0 --- Special study / Chapter Part 8.0 --- Proposed scheme / Chapter Part 9.0 --- Bibliography

Ng Ka Kin Gary. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2008-2009, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves Q1-Q2). / Thesis Design Report / Chapter A --- Thesis Abstract / Chapter B --- Landscape Urbanism... / Chapter C --- 2030 Study Strategic Planning Guidance / Chapter D-1 --- Alternatives / Chapter D-2 --- Regional Strategies / Chapter E --- Studies of Landscape Strategy / Chapter E-1 --- Strips / Chapter E-2 --- Multiple Cores / Chapter E-3 --- Networked Field / Chapter E-4 --- Virtual Landform / Chapter F-1 --- Mapping of the existing / Chapter F-2 --- Exploring the landscape / Chapter G --- Landscape in Context / Chapter G-1 --- Conceptual model / Chapter G-2 --- Master Strategy and anchoring proqrams / Chapter G-3 --- Model / Chapter H --- Studies of Building Strategy / Chapter H-1 --- Bridging / Chapter H-2 --- Facet Surfaces / Chapter H-3 --- Responsive Surface / Chapter H-4 --- Hybridized Surface and Towers / Chapter I --- Studies of surface operation / Chapter I-1 --- Surface as Housing / Chapter I-2 --- Interlacing Surfaces / Chapter I-3 --- Volumetric Study / Chapter J-1 --- Social Interaction / Chapter J-2 --- Between Landscape and Housing... / Chapter K-1 --- Plans Development / Chapter K-2 --- Detail Plan-10/F . / Chapter L --- New Sectional Relationship / Chapter M --- Perspective Study / Chapter M-1 --- Multi-level social landscape / Chapter M-2 --- Intimate neighborhood and landscape / Chapter N --- Spatial Diversity / Chapter N-1 --- Internal Courtyards / Chapter N-2 --- Connections / Chapter N-3 --- Connective landscape / Chapter N-4 --- Model Exploration / Chapter O --- Performance / Chapter O-1 --- P ot ratio / Chapter O-2 --- Natural forces / Chapter P --- Presentation / Chapter Q-1 --- Bibliography / Chapter Q-2 --- Relevant text / Appendix 1 / Thesis Report I - Research Phase

Ho Tsun Man Clement. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 0. --- Contents / Chapter 1. --- THESIS ABSTRACT --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- RESEARCH PHASE --- p.2 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The Contemporary Public Realm --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Issues --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Issue 1 - The Public Realm Accommodates Only Movement / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Issue 2 - Lack of Public Activities --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Issue 3 - Segregation of Activities / Chapter 2.3 --- Argument --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Precedent Cases --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4 --- Theoretical Principles --- p.22 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Principle 1 - A 3D Nolli Plan / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Principle 2 ´ёØ Reviving Public Life --- p.24 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Principle 3 - Street-irvthe-air --- p.25 / Chapter 2.4.4 --- Overall Design Strategy “ City Within Housing / Chapter 2.5 --- Research on Housing Typology --- p.26 / Chapter 2.6 --- Research on the Public Realm --- p.36 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- "Fa Yuen Street Complex, Monakok" / Chapter 2.6.2 --- "Kowloon Park, Tsimshatsui" --- p.37 / Chapter 2.6.3 --- "Central Park, New York" --- p.38 / Chapter 2.6.4 --- Different Elements of the Public Realm --- p.40 / Chapter 2.7 --- Site Selection --- p.43 / Chapter 2.8 --- Vision for Design Intervention --- p.46 / Chapter 2.9 --- Footnotes --- p.47 / Chapter 3. --- DESIGN PHASE --- p.48 / Chapter 3.1 --- Proposed Site Condition --- p.49 / Chapter 3.2 --- Main Design Concept --- p.50 / Chapter 3.3 --- Preliminary Design --- p.51 / Chapter 3.4 --- Final Design Strategy --- p.57 / Chapter 3.5 --- Final Building Design Drawings --- p.58 / Chapter 3.6 --- Final Unit Design Drawings --- p.78 / Chapter 3.7 --- Final Model Photos --- p.82 / Chapter 4. --- BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.86

Yuen Ching Yin. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2007-2008, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 1 --- Abstract / Chapter 2 --- Research on Phenomena within and outside Architecture / Chapter 2.1 --- Voidness / Chapter 2.2 --- Indeterminacy / Chapter 2.3 --- Japanese Haiku / Chapter 2.4 --- "Spatial Continuum - Dongtongchi, Ancestral Hall in Jiangxi" / Chapter 2.5 --- Event Space - Dongtongchi and Dafen Museum / Chapter 2.6 --- Merging with Everyday Life - Kanazawa Museum / Chapter 2.7 --- Temporal Margin / Chapter 2.8 --- Hinge / Chapter 2.9 --- Edge Condition / Chapter 2.10 --- Hinge as a strategy of Reprogramming / Chapter 2.11 --- Dissolving Edges / Chapter 3 --- Research Summary / Chapter 4 --- Design Strategy / Chapter 5 --- Contextual Experiment - Southorn Playground in Wan Chai as a Testing Ground / Chapter 5.1 --- Site Survey / Chapter 5.2 --- Design Constraints / Chapter 5.3 --- Design Scheme / Chapter 5.4 --- Design Documentation

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

The transformation of Hong Kong into a high-density city has created a unique three-dimensional urban fabric defined through networks of urban activity and infrastructure within tight spatial constraints of mountainous slopes and the island shoreline. In Hong Kong urban development, the government performs a dual role both as landlord and as administrator determining the development agenda. With limited space available for development high land price policies have restricted land supplies and priority is given to ‘economic space’ rather than ‘life space’. This has created a city of mobility based on consumption where privatized public spaces such as shopping malls, corporate plazas and elevated walkways are linked primarily to promote shopping. Public spaces are increasingly managed by private parties, and the degree of publicness of such spaces is often not clearly distinguishable to their potential users. Due to Hong Kong’s population density of approximately 33,000 persons/km2, practices of everyday life are increasingly limited by multiple restrictions controlling the use of spaces that only seem to be public. The district of Central, Hong Kong features an urban network of both publicly and privately maintained elevated pedestrian walkways that provide a secondary circulation space. Designed according to commercial priorities, the walkway system in Central typically links privately owned second floor lobbies with similar owners to promote consumption. Although these regulated spaces are required to allow public access 24 hours a day, pedestrian connectivity seems merely an after thought. In such private public spaces, pedestrians move between consumption nodes through a maze of displays and windows filled with luxury consumer goods. This study takes focus on the walkways in Central thus investigating publicness specifically within the context of Hong Kong's high-density urban fabric, then within a wider context of elevated pedestrian walkway systems in Asian Pacific cities. To this end, this thesis employs an empirical case study methodology consisting of a series of observational studies. Each of these studies publicness transcribed through observations of use, users and use patterns. This study identifies a distinction that underlies the discussion of publicness: that of non-place as opposed to place. The distinction of space and place relates to whether users establish personal relationships to the spaces they use and has drawn much critical attention in urban studies over the past several decades. Places typically provide the stage for social practices. The relationship between place and mobility at an elevated level has however, not been studied in detail yet. As mobile urban populations pass through places more than we dwell in them, a new type of space has emerged to facilitate a ‘frictionless passage’, or non-place. Within this realm of non-place pedestrians pass through zones of movement like passengers experiencing a lack of relationship or disconnectivity with a space. This leads to the question whether elevated pedestrian walkways consisting of spatial flows, movement and transitional zones are only capable of performing as non-places? Can relationships develop between the walkways and their users, making them more than non-places, but places? A case study forms the main part of this thesis and specifically focuses on observing aspect of movement and circulation within Central that determine perceptions of publicness. Findings resulting from this study provide an understanding of the ambiguous nature of spaces in Central. From a background study of elevated pedestrian walkways in six Asian Pacific cities, indicators of publicness are established that provide a framework to distinguish characteristics of elevated pedestrian walkways. In Central, gatherings among domestic helpers are found to contribute to the success of the elevated pedestrian walkway system into urban context. Results of this study indicate that elevated pedestrian walkways can be both places and non-places depending on the publicness of space and suggest how a transition of publicness can occur within such spaces. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

We walk along the street every day. In the densely built urban environment, streets are the most abundant public space that serve not only as channels for movement but also as public realms and places catering for social activities. Throughout the development of Hong Kong, many public streets have evolved with a unique character and local identity that are integrated into the everyday life of the community. Yet, in a rapidly transforming city like Hong Kong, redevelopment has posed considerable threats to such significant cultural landscapes of public streets. In particular, mega redevelopment projects substantially alter the physical space and also trigger subsequent changes in the social dimension of streets. Such a transformation thus results in the role of streets gradually deviating from being a public space and streets disconnected from our everyday lived experience both practically and connotatively. It is the intention of this Study to investigate how mega-redevelopment has reshaped the way public urban streets are lived. It attempts to answer such questions as what cause the changes and what the changes are. Inspired by Lefebvre’s critique of everyday life, the physical and social dimension of public streets is simultaneously formed by two interrelated constituents. On one side, planning and governance measures by the institution determine more the physical space. On the other side, these institutional tools mediate spatial practices of individual street users, which thus in turn dictate the living component of public urban streets. Through the local case study of Langham Place, a mega-redevelopment in Mong Kok, this Study illustrates the dialectic relationship between these two aspects of space. Bearing in mind the dual role of streets, the findings suggest a heightened attention to the impact of redevelopment on the social space and the importance of planning for everyday life. / published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Design / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

published_or_final_version / Urban Design / Master / Master of Urban Design