There are huge demands of limited lands in Hong Kong. It is an increasing trend for Hong
Kong Government to develop open space for the use of recreation activities as they found out
that it is very important to the individual as well as the community. Other than recreation use,
those open spaces can also served to allow air ventilation, penetration of sunlight and also act
as a place for amenity and visual relief in Hong Kong. Although, these functions are very
important in the high rise building environment, high density city like Hong Kong, there are
many small public open spaces in urban area which are not in a good quality. They cannot
function well in responsive to the context of the area, enhancing the quality of the
neighborhoods and suited for the public need in the community which they turns out become
not as popular as they are expected. The pocket open space in urban area is relatively small,
surrounded by commercial buildings or residential buildings. They usually have a simple
setting with planters and street furniture. Different activities involvement by different users in
these small open spaces create a small community in the urban area and supposingly can
enhance the interaction within people in the area.
Considering that there are complaints from the Artists that there are not enough outdoor arts
space in Hong Kong and public arts is the trend of some of the cities in other countries to
enhancing the identity and culture of the urban areas, such as the King Williams ArtWalk in
Otario in Canada. However, It is not popular in the urban dense space in Hong Kong. It is
good to exploring a possible new way to sustain the unique culture by applying public arts
platform in the urban area. The site is located around the Aberdeen Street in Central. It is an
old district with new culture style but lack of solid identity and energy throughout the space.
Although there are different organic developments, the streetscape is without strong
characters. The following pilot project is aim to use art platform as a tools to revealing the
missing link in urban context and also adding a possible new function to the open space in
urban dense area as a “outdoor showroom” of arts in the city in order to vibrate the city and
raise the awareness of public arts to the publics. / published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/174409 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Kwan, Hoi-ling., 關凱齡. |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Source Sets | Hong Kong University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PG_Thesis |
| Source | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47542767 |
| Rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| Relation | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) |
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