full time students
01. ANCELL MARJORIE
For The Hyper-Urban
In response to the themes of hyperdensity and hypermobility,
the project investigates a hybridised urban morphology. The new urban
morphology is a movement network and navigation matrix for lifestyle activities.
The objective is to ease the choreography of lifestyle patterns by blurring the
distinction between transportation network and building system.
02. CHAN JACKY
10 minute Hyperdensity
Under the hyper-dense situation, this design framework hopes to deliver a highly
efficient and comfortable living environment. The circulation system is developed
as a computer matrix, under which every location of the project lies within a “10
minute radius”. Secondarily, the design of the urban form is concerned with the
issue of urban sustainability, namely developing the essence of hyperdensity
without negating the habitability of the project.
03. GARWOLINSKI NICHOLAS
Urban Landscape
Why should we live separately from nature? What if nature grew back into our
cities? The encroachment of nature back into our urban lives, filling the voids,
cracks and walls of our city creates a new urbanism. The melding of built form
and nature redefines the meaning of urban landscape. The use of Hong Kong’s
volcanic geology operates towards the development of a new low-rise urbanism.
04. GKOIMISIS VASILEIOS
SO(CIA)LID CITY
This scheme is a paradigm for an open yet coherent society. Initially establishing
a rigid fortress, it subsequently tries to deny it by penetrating it, making a mockery
of it. Initiating a virus that will eventually “contaminate” / “complicate” the whole of
the city towards an unpredictable post-modern entity. Furthermore, the
scenography of the urban environment, resembling the aura of a movie, functions
as a point of departure towards an alternate reality, a culture of escapism, an
urbanism of dreaming.
05. GOEL NISHANT
Hyperdensity: an urban matrix of fragmented layers within time-space
“There is always more to a thing than the contents of our thoughts about it.”
Defining a generative system of urban planning by exploring ‘time-space’ and
‘mixed-use development’ with ‘randomness’ as the underlying characteristic,
contrary to the orthodox planning system of deterministic zoning of physical
space. The sequential set of coded responsive instructions form a genetic
language which when applied to a particular design brief and context has the
ability of producing a variety of results and combinations.
06. HORN PAZ
Hyperdensity Speculations
Hyperdensity emerges at the interface of three elements: complexity, evolution
and the extreme. The project speculates upon these, exploring the motivations for
their processes, notions and characteristics.
Starting with simple codes, overlaid and used in parallel to generate different
spatial outcomes, the aim is to challenge urban form under extreme conditions
and thus provoke hyperdensity.
07. KAKLIDAKI EVANGELIA
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08. LAMETTI CRAIG
City of Scaled Relations
The project uses a second order (regulatory) approach to design in order to
develop a radical, yet implementable, 3-Dimension urban environment. In doing
so, it hopes to mitigate the effect high densities have on public space and to
restore the hierarchy of space which has traditionally existed in Chinese cities.
09. LEUNG AMY
The Urban Nexus
The Urban Nexus is a reaction to the absurdity of existing arrangements for the
vital infrastructural networks and mechanisms of any urban structure. It
introduces the hypothesis that new technologies are the way forward to improving
the support systems of our cities. It proposes a decentralised distribution system
that has a multitude of intelligent technologies embedded within its skin, one
which actively engages as part of the inhabitable urban fabric, as physical
structure as well as the hard and soft infrastructures.
10. LIN ELSA
Sponge City
Just like a permeable live sponge that allows water to pass through its body, the
city is a shell, which contains the constant flux of people and activities.
The relationship between water and sponge represents the intense urban
activities penetrating and filtering within the void, eventually developing the spatial
attributes of the city.
The city can be densified three dimensionally by infilling the negative spaces
(void) to facilitate urban operatives under a hyperdense condition.
11. MALLIKAMARL PROWPANNARAI
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12. ROBINSON JAMIE
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13. SOBUWA KANYISHA
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14. SOMCHEVITA PANITAT
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15. TAN KIAJOON
Cybernetic City
Hyperdensity conditions the urban fabric to constant changes, requiring
adaptability to navigate permutations and demographic shifts, both in terms of
intensified spatial occupation and information transfer processes.
The West Kowloon site manifests as a cybernetic implant within a burgeoning
Pearl River Delta Region, establishing as a global node within a transfer system of
universal container scale. A cybernetic syntax of hierarchy, control and distribution
is proposed on a macro global scale and a micro site scale.
16. TEXIER GWENN
(self-)reflecting city
When wrapping together a physical and a psychological structure in a densified
situation, interaction is obliged to occur. The search for the most intense critical
point of balance became the motivator for the rest of this work.
The emphasis of the design lies on the provision of intensified urban scenarios as
emotional narrators of urban possibilities, that embody the non-imposing
guidelines of a (self-) reflecting urban realm. Namely, the whole intentional ground
of creating a reflecting city lies within the subliminal of impressionistic subtlety.
17. VASSILOPOULOS VASSILIS
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part time students
18. AMBROSE JASON
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19. FARRELL MATT
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20. GARNER HAROLD
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21. PLOUMI AVRA
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22. SHIMIZU KUMIKO
Neo-Utopia (Never Never Land)
Prometheus stole the Fire. Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Apple. The result
was the expulsion from the garden of Eden. Man no longer belonged to Nature in
the same way that wild animals did. We are meant to live vertical freeing the
ground to wild animals since endangering them means jeopardising Man’s future.
The only way to ensure Earth’s sustainability is to segregate human from Nature,
engineering a system of Nature solely for humans.
23. WALKER RICHARD
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