dc.contributor.author | Wong, Walter Ching | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-08T11:37:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-08T11:37:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-08T11:37:07Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/79821 | |
dc.description.abstract | In addition to rapidly increasing political repression in recent years, the people of Hong Kong have long suffered economic repression, facing challenges such as severely constrained living space and world-leading inequality. All this culminates in a growingly defiant demand for human dignity.
The thesis design is conceived as a linear park with coworking and co-living spaces on top, where facilities are de-privatized and shared. This is used to test the thesis that decommoditizing space in a pluralistic and multi-layered way helps bring about political and economic agency by fostering free enterprise and free expression.
The project employs a few strategies, such as having a central location, occupying the urban void, inverting and fracturing the mall typology, exposing the circulatory systems, accommodating a mix of use and mix of scales, ensuring visual connection and continuity between spaces, and creating means for users to modulate their privacy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Coliving | en_US |
dc.subject | Informal Economy | en_US |
dc.subject | Junkspace | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban Retrofit | en_US |
dc.subject | Democratic Space | en_US |
dc.subject | Occupation of Infrastructure | en_US |
dc.subject | Decommoditization | en_US |
dc.subject | Inequality | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban Void | en_US |
dc.subject | Pluralism | en_US |
dc.title | Occupy Hong Kong: Blossoming in the Gaps | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2020-06-23 | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Architecture | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Nichole Wiedemann | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Steve Parcell | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Cristina Verissimo | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Niall Savage | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Received | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | No | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | No | en_US |