CONCEPT: FROM GROUND CONTOUR LEAD INTO THE DESIGN OF BUILDING
Everything natural around us is organic in form. Organic form and curvature has refine value in reality such as responding, flexible, soft, and endless. In architecture, I see organic form and curvature can respond to the context in more efficient way, spreading and diffusing sound and endless aesthetic is beyond. This project is to explore one of the way to enhance Hong Kong social urban connector and green design on top of the existing context. There is existing building call Sport and Squash Centre and it will be diminished. This particular site is located in Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong Island. At urban scale, the boundary of the site is a part of Hong Kong Park, which stand in between the commercial and residential section of the city. It connected to many public trasportation and intersection such as peak tram, human circulation, subway, road and highway. This intersection created varieties of noise and very busy during day time. The atmosphere of people who access the park from the site feel dropping of gradually of green space when walking from the center of Hong Kong park toward the city. The project aim to enhance and deliver more green space into this new urban connector. There are many characteristic of the site such as acess point to the park, center of public transportation, and existing human circulation; example, people using park circulate to their office and park to home. Taking peak tram to the Peak. All those activities consisting of tourism, officer, and visitors in all ages. Therefore, for me by using organic form and curvature to reacting and responding to surround enviroment is nescessary to establish this project aim. To begin, landscape and aesthetic and functional and sustainability are my hold on words to start with. After research more into existing ground condition. Mapping out the level throughout site boundary and making contour line inspire me about the outcome of the building. The purity of the contour line starts to be my concept and design language informing me about the decision of form and position of programs. It leads into the building design of interior, exterior and even facade of the building. Even when working with varieties option of where building will be position in the site boundary. Using contour design language did help make decision that will suit the project aim as Urban connector. By pushing building toward the highway, it lefts two vallay where it is a core that drives social life of this campus. The two vallays provide one pond each vallay for public users, park staffs and students. Bringing natural space closer to the people who come to study, work, exhibit, theater, and drive and walk pass by. West building is consisting of both biological and climitology department. On ground floor, canteen is the heart of the campus. It is where all programs and people meet. It is where social inspiration begin with it own people and nature by sitting with great view of the vallay or even sit down on grass and it allows to have lunch or dinner. On top of canteen is where classroom, laboratory, private study room have over view of the what happening in the vallay. Providing such view is to promote scienctist to have relaxing place of mind while do researching or studying. There is also one private theater on third floor in the building which shorten the walk to EAST building. On the East building is call inspiration centre where public exhibition, theater and outdoor stage is designed to be. Inside the east building, exhibition space is located right at the center of existing human circulation; ease to see and can be draw into. It is where people exhibit, speaking out and inspiring others through their work. And acrossing the pond is also where people celebrate and gather in the vallay. Celebration focus point is by looking back across the pond to the center island. The East and West building is seperating by the existing landscape and privacy of space. I believe privacy of space should be able to define by common sense. Public and private privacy should not be mix. Therefore, the West building where educational purpose locate should be more private and exclusive for their users. Passive sustainability, this contour line concept leading into the building also with consideration of building massing and orientation for heating and cooling, shading for solar heat gain, reducing noise disturbulance and natural ventilation.
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