A framework for sustainable residential landscaping and its application in the high density urban context of Hong Kong

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junyan, Jessica He
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
High Density ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Residential Landscaping

Victoria Barracks of Disappearance: Contested Post-Military Landscape in High-Density Urban Hong Kong

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Jing Xiao ◽  
Charlie Q. L. Xue
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
High Density ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
The Military

This research paper examines the post-military landscape of the Victoria Barracks regarding the high-density urbanism in Hong Kong from the 1970s to the 2000s. The article first interprets the concept of post-military landscape according to the ideology and urbanism of the then Hong Kong society. It then studies three plans of the Victoria Barracks of different stages, showing contestations between domestic, commercial and administrative powers in controlling the military redevelopment. Several contemporary architectural projects on the site will also provide an alternative view of the transformation according to the local economic laissez-faire policy. Its influence to the unsatisfactory heritage protection leads to the disappearance and false representation of the identity of this particular military and cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Enhancing Form-Based Code: A parametric approach to urban volumetric morphology in high density cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Yingyi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
High Density ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Parametric Modelling ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Urban Regulation ◽  
Modelling System

<p>Parametric tools have been broadly implemented in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Recently, an increasing volume of research finds that parametric tools also have the capability to facilitate large-scale planning and urban design. Much of this research, however, focuses on parametric representation or environment simulation. There is insufficient research about using parametric tools to enhance urban regulation. Parametric tools can provide smart design procedures by integrating strategies, solutions and expressions in one system. They may allow alternative approaches to urban regulation that conventional tools do not process.  This research aims to create a parametric modelling system to aid urban regulation. The system offers a visualised coding interface to manipulate parameters and achieve interactive performance feedback at the early stage of urban regulation. Form-Based Code uses the modelling system in this research. It generates a specific morphology by controlling physical form with less focus on land use. With the rise of New Urbanism, Form-Based Code has been used in various American regulation projects. This research extends the application of Form-Based Code, adopting it for urban-peripheral environments outside of the USA. High-density cities where provide the volumetric morphology context is important for this work. Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong works as an experimental site.  The feasibility of parametric urban regulation is examined by developing a parametric modelling system for Form-Based Code in Hong Kong. Understanding the site’s form characteristics, the transect matrix of Form-Based Code is expanded by incorporating multi-layered zone types and regulating plans. Embedding the zones into parametric modelling software Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper 3D, a regenerative prototype works to create real-time scenarios responding to parameters, rules and geometry constraints. The results of parametric urban regulation are evaluated by both Form-Based Code standards and local urban regulation standards to assess its feasibility in context.  This research demonstrates that the parametric modelling system for Form-Based Code has both technological and implemental potential to work as an alternative approach to urban regulation, especially in complex developments. Form complexity is a reflection of sophisticated human-society systems and the sequential evolution of a dynamic morphology. Form-Based Code is enhanced by the parametric modelling system to describe and regulate form complexity in a logical manner. Additionally, although parametric Form-Based Code processing is based on the original Form-Based Code, it is not limited to that. Describing urban regulation with visualised models bridges specialists and the public in community demonstrations and code assembling. The parametric modelling system has a positive impact on resolving challenges, predicting outcomes, and applying urban regulation innovation to the volumetric morphology of high-density cities in Asia.</p>

scholarly journals On the Same Skywalk in a Time of Pandemic: How a vulnerable group copes with the new conditions in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (17) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Caterina Villani ◽  
Gianni Talamini ◽  
Zhijian Hu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
High Density ◽  
The Public ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Pedestrian Network ◽  
International Publishing

The public space plays a crucial role in providing adequate infrastructure for vulnerable social groups in the context of high-density urban Asia. In this study, a well-known elevated pedestrian network in Hong Kong emerges as a revelatory case for the comparative analysis of the pattern of stationary uses before and after the COVID-19 pandemic out-break. Findings reveal a significant decrease (-20 %) in the total number of users and a shift in the pattern of activities, comprising a significant shrinkage of socially oriented uses and a vast increase of individual behaviors. This study advocates a responsive policymaking that considers the peculiar post-outbreak needs of migrant workers in Hong Kong and in high-density urban Asia Keywords: Covid-19; public space; migrant domestic workers; behavioural mapping eISSN  2514-751X © 2020 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians / Africans / Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajebs.v5i17.374

scholarly journals Implications for sustainable land use in high-density cities: Evidence from Hong Kong

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Wang ◽  
Xiaoling Zhang ◽  
Martin Skitmore
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
High Density ◽  
Sustainable Land Use
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