Title: Park and chill : redesign parking garage in HongKong; Redesign parking garage in Hong Kong
Abstract: What are the aesthetics of urban infrastructure?
Urban infrastructure has remained isolated to human activities. We
all share memory and experience with urban infrastructure, e.g. we
drive on the same roads and park our cars in the same parking
garage every day. Urban infrastructure are not important or great
places for us because they are designed by non-human factors, but
by requirement of cars. One can question why we need to make urban
infrastructure to become a better place? The answer is that urban
infrastructure often occupies important geographical location in
the cities for distribution of cars, human, water and energy. In a
dense urban environment, the high land value makes the creation of
non-commercial buildings and places, such as religion, cemetery,
playground and parks, being enormous difficult. These activities
can only occupy less prominent locations in cities. In addition,
public programs nowadays is mostly tied with consumption of goods,
services and cultural activities. If urban infrastructure is one of
the necessities in center of urban environment and lack enough
human consideration while we all share experience with them, can we
take this situation as an opportunity to redefine the role of urban
infrastructure. Can urban infrastructure be a civic building? This
thesis aims at resolving the dilemma that non-commercial driven
public programs are difficult to exist in high density urban
environment because of high land price. This thesis proposes
hybridizing parking garage with non-commercial public programs. The
transformation to suit the need of human need and technical
requirement provides new opportunities for searching didactic forms
and sublime techniques. Also, if the purpose of building more roads
and highway is to speed up the time of moving around the city, the
parking garage is a place where cars stop. This thesis propose to
use parking garage to slow down people's life in the city. It is a
place where people can take a rest from the network of driving and
escape from our busy city life.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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