ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMME 2008-2009 DESIGN REPORT

STILL CITY

MAK King Huai Kevin May 2009

Sti l l C i t y

Photographic Gal lery & Image Archive Center

Central, Hong Kong

t h e s i s d e s i g n r e p o r t

Kevin

Mak King-huai

thesis advisor: Eymen Homsi

2008 - 09

Department of Architecture CUHK

table of contents

Oa thesis statement 5 Ob thesis abstract 13 Oc definitions 14

1 Vibrant Surface of Metropolitan City 17 2 Stillness: detached from Vibrant Surface 22 3 Still Space 32

3.1 hidden courtyards : access / space / qualities 3.2 cases studies

4 Still Photography 24 4.1 city > photographic image

cases studies 45

Site Programme Space

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4.2 Design Strategy

5.1 5.2 5.3

Detailed Design

bibliography 82

thesis statement Oa This thesis is attempted to explore the spatial experience of the discovery of 'still' moments in the over-stimulated, contemporary vibrant city space, and to suggest a steady look at the fragmented urban city through a static point of view inspired by still photogrpahy.

At every instant, there is more than the eye can see, more than the ear con hear, a setting or a view waiting to be explored. Nothing is experienced by itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the sequence of events leading up to it, the memory of past experiences... Every citizen has had long associations with some part of his city, and hisiamge is soaked in meanings and memories... Most often, our perception oftrhe city is not sustained, but rather partial, fragmentary, mixed with other concerns. Narly every sense is in operation, and the image is the composite of them all... Not only is the city an object which is perceived (and perhaps enjoyed) by millions of people of widely diverse class and character, but it is the prpduct of many builders who ore constantly modifying the structure for reasons of their own. While it may be stable in general outlines for some time, it is ever changing in detail.

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In the age of globalization, there is a rapid growth in development on the reproduction of media. Contemporary cities have been building up with multiplicity of diverse images and events from different cultural backgrounds. These changing images in the everyday life are stimuli intensifying and sustaining the public life of the men in the city. The city itself becomes a movie on-showing 24 hours a day.

"I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images."i

However, human's mind itself "creates a mental predominance through the intensification of consciousness in telescoping all these overwhelming stimuli. The reaction of the metropolitan person to such amount of events is moved to a sphere of mental activity which is least sensitive, and furthest removed from the depths of personality."^ Logical preconceptjon overrode emotional sensitivity to the images in the metropolis, and created alienation between human to the highly visual city environment.

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thesis abstract Ob The city of Hong Kong has been growing into a vibrant metropolis with its streetscape collaged with a huge amount of over-stimulated textures and fragments which keep changing all the time. Such phenomenon has diluted the perception of city environment from clear spatial identities to fragmented spatial memories that never settle.

Inspired by how still photography documents this changing city over the history, the study focused on the discovery of'Still'moments when the vibrancy absent, and when all those changing fragments frozen.These sudden moments o f Stillness'in the public city experience are read as blanks, pauses, providing escapes from the crowded city space and rest from the overstressed city life.

Hidden courtyard spaces in Central, Hong Kong, were found to be potential escapes for such metroplitan life pattern in the city. The idea of'Still City' within the'Vibrant City'is applied through the design process of a partly underground photographic gallery & city image archive center below one of these underused hidden courtyard spaces which had been poorly maintained as goverment park. The open gallery gradually brings the pedestrians into a journey, of which one end leading to the roof garden that overlooks the city, and the other end to the underground space of city image archive, narrating the idea - to rest from, and discover a steady look at the vibrant city.

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Oc definitions

Vibrant Streetscape [n, mainly visual] city built up by fragments of overwhelming stimuli; no breaks; overwhelming impulses from the compressed surface of elements on the volatile, changing metropolitan streetscape; advertisement, active commercial activities, overloaded material world; cause of alienation between man & city.

Metropolitan Consciousness [n] mental status living in Vibrant city instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner, thus creating a mental predominance through the intensification of consciousness in the experience of metropolitan life.

Stillness [n, a state of static /absence / silence / disappearance / empitness] detached experience away from the Vibrant Streetscape; a pause in routine; react emotionally in consciousness.

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still Space [space of stillness] space with the absent of (/ detached from / contrasting to) Vibrant Streetscape of metropolitan city; space that slows down movements; gallery space; (hidden courtyard spaces in Central, Hong Kong).

Photography [n] getting more and more popular from an expensive technology in the past, to a daily-life medium for visual communication; continuously acts as a device to document / review / recall moments in history & fragments in memory; freezes movements / memories / histories into static images.

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Image of the city, the book from Kevin Lynch, discussed on how the impressions and identity of a city, is expressed through the spatial experience in a city. Kevin Lynch suggested the qualities of which a workable environmental image requires:

a) its own identity, the distinction from other things; b) spatial relation of the object to the observer; c) meaning for the observer.

Look at the situation of Hong Kong, a highly collaged metropolitan city, we find that such qualities of workable environmental image are hardly perceivable in its urban spatial experience. The city has been developing as a material world with fragments in disorder, discontinuous in time and space. The urban spaces works like flattened organs in a sea of unsettled, changing streetscape on the artificial surfaces of the streetscape.

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the issues 1 rapid changing elements in streetscape 2 visually overcrowded public space 3 lack of clear spatial identity

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01 Vibrant Streetscape of the Metropolitan City

changing city

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'Vibrant City' city perceived as a continuous vibrant surface along streetscape where thousands of events and activ-ites happen over time and space / Central, Hong Kong

interpretation of'Vibrant City' / Hong Kong

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02 Stillness / detached from Vibrant Surface

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The role of absent in the rediscovery of presence could also be found in examples in art and philosophy. For example, Haiku, the short poem in Japan, is composed of 3 major parts with only fragments of words. The silent pauses in it play a significant role in understanding the poem and its elusive meanings.

The role of absent can also be explained by memory. For example, when the person is walked away from a space, or the space itself changes over time. The concept of the space becomes a memory, and hence the impression of the space in the mind of the person. The presence of the space, is then emerged in the experience of its absence and then recalled in another form as memory. It happens first through the detached of mind, and then through the experience of the recall / review of the space looking at something which remind the person about that space.

Stillness, a rest from Vibrancy.

In the case of seeing metropolitan space as a contiuous vibrant surface, the experience of its absence is then a kind of detached space of stillness.

Island of clarity and lightness in an Ocean oftestosteronce & seconds-sale visual exuberance.

Cristina Diaz Moreno & Efren Garcia Grind a, "Ocean of Air"

Stillness / detached from the Vibrant Surface

reading silence as part of rhythm

Henri Lefebvre, Rhyth-manalysis - Space, Time and Everyday Life, 1992, translated 2004

street photography: technique of Comparison technique of Contrast technique of Association

/Jane Reichhold, "Haiku Technique", http://www. ahapoetry.com/h_t_tech-niques.html

Haiku : More than in ordi-nary language, the silent pauses (ma) in haiku play a significant role in under-standing the poem and its elusive meanings

/Botond Bognar, "The Japanese Order of Things" in the issue on "FORM; Being; Absence", Pratt Journal of Architecture.

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From the phenomenon of overwhelming stimuli in the contemporary city, the search of a spatial condition is essential to settle the exhausting mind from the vibrant city environment. The investigation would like to zoom-into the Central area of Hong Kong, which is the densest urban space of the city.

...Blank supplies the diffuse blurring presence characteristic of conscious-ness.

Arakawa, "From Blank to Spacetime" in the issue on "FORM; Being; Absence", Pratt Journal of Architecture.

The city space in Central is crowded with commercial activities of different cultures, advertisements cover every single inch of the streetscape. Bars, res-taurants and markets created an urban playground in the area, whileas there are still some programmes which try to give some breaks to the metropolitan life. Gallery is one of them. But the experience of visiting a ground-floor, shop-like gallery in the area does no difference to the experience of getting into any other shops. However, there is another kind of programme and space in the area which offer an unique spatial quality which is quite detached from the surface of the streetscape - parks in the hidden urban courtyard spaces.

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The old central fabric is formed by lots. Each lot contains groups of building blocks. Throughout the city development. There were times when some lots were getting too crowded with the increase of building heights, the building blocks at the middle of the lots were demolished and then being reserved as open spaces for better ventilation. Voids were formed inside the city lots, and became some hidden city courtyards.

Most of these hidden city courtyards space are being maintained by the gov-ernment as playgrounds or public open space, generally provided with some planted sitting-out areas. As most of these hidden spaces are connected to the street by narrow lanes, most of them has maintained the quality of stillness like a refuge of the outside world. They offer a PLACE of SOLITUDE in the delirious metropolis.

However, some courtyard spaces which are difficult to access are rarely used and poorly maintained, others are no longer used as resting areas as intruded by commercial programmes such as the large number of new-open bars and restaurants might be built to face these courtyards. It seems the hidden court-yards might still loss its quality of stillness one day.

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Distillation of space

The experience of discovery of Still Space is like a process that passes through spaces of filters and eventually extractes a state of static from the vibrant world. The term is used here to descript such a journey of spatial changes.

> > falling water walls distillaion static monument Osaka pref. Sayamaike Museum,

> diagonal pathway distillaion static hollow tower Berlin Jewish Museum,

Daniel Libeskind

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studies of journeys through some examples of still spaces /

Vibrant Space Access Section of Access (sight) Still Space Still Space

04 Still Photography

Searching for other moments of detached stillness in the town, I found it hap-pens only in particular moments, for example, when the city development stops and when activities end, like when the construction site is emptied and no building is erected yet. To capture these fragmented moment in time, the study switches from the search of a detached still space to the search of a me-dium for such observation - still photography.

Still Photography - Vibrant & Changing City Space

Sill photography frozens moments from endless movements and flattens fragments in complicated space. It captures space of a particular time into a solid from of perceivable image, detaching from the vibrant reality. The review of the contents in photography is a detached, slowed down experience to re-understand a moment of a period of time by a static point of view.

Over the history of Hong Kong, photography is surprisingly a medium that documents the most of the disappearing memories and history when most of the physical environment has been replacing and changing in time and space contiuously.

Physical Heritage < > Impression of City

Recent debates raised the discussions on the importance of heritage perservation to collective memories and to the historical value of city environment. All colonial cities undergo such a similar process in city development. But Hong Kong has been developing in a rapid and diverse ways which are so contradicted to the idea of perservation of city space. Even if we try hard to perserve as much the city space as we can from now on, all these'heritages'are only the 1% of our city life. From another point of view, a much larger part of the city life is actually experienced through fragmented of moments and beauties in details of our everyday life.

Photographic Images ~ Impression of City

Photography is provided as an existing, and has been a medium to document all these the fragmented city life and city space into the form of Photographic images.

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2 A static nature to review Vibrancy Opposite to the contemporary communicative nature of photography, the documentary nature of photography represents a static quality for the review of vibrancy (the fragments and moments)in city life.

Furthermore, different processes from the act of capture to archive of photograph representing a point of view towards the act of photographing of different times.

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Photographic Exhibition by Contemporary Photographers Imaging Hong Kong 2008

Moscone Convention Center Diller + Scofidio 2002

Lee Tung Street Exhibition Lee Tung St. (to be demoished) Hong Kong 2006

Exhibition Everyville Competition Venice Biennale 2008

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Tackle on the loss of intimacy in the life on the vibrant surface of contemporary streetscape in Hong Kong, now we found:-

Still Space as a space for the rest of mind away from the city space; & Still Photography as a detached medium for the review of the fragmented metropolitan life

They represent a PLACE to REST from city space & an EXPERIENCE to REVIEW city life.

And at last, the act of documenting city space by photography and the experience to review of it is potentially a way to rebuild the intimacy bewteen man and the vibrant city life.

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Design Strategy 05 Design Statement

To introduce the concept of Stillness within the vibrant metropolitan environment as a break from the city space and a static state to review the city life.

Design Concept

PLACE to REST from city space + EXPERIENCE to REVIEW city life » a discovery of city stillness in Still City

To extend the vibrant city surface and lead to the PLACE to REST from city space - the exisiting and also vanishing public place of stillness - hidden city courtyard. A parallel journey would be connected to an EXPERIENCE to RE-VIEW city life - an unfolded experience of photographic gallery spaces, from the vibrant contemporary end to the historical archive, as a new Still Space for the city. 、

Idea of'Distillation' is applied over the spatial arrangement, and also on the nature of the programme itself as an achive of city images, to condense and flatten the vibrant environment into a still version of the city - Still City.

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Existing access to the discovery of Hidden Courtyard

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Site

A site with potential quality of still space is chosen as the container of the distilled images outside the vibrant environment - hidden courtyard in Central, Hong Kong. As the design is intended to create a contrasting still space to the outside vibrant world, detachness and degree of stillness are the main critiria for the site selection, and also are the characters that would be preserved and pushed to a further limit.

The site, courtyard 07, is surrounded by buildings, with 5 existing accesses from 4 streets. This site offer a strong static character itself as illustrated in the previous studies.

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The natures of the programme would like to perform the idea of "Distillation", which try to encourage the search of a way to read the vibrant city with the help of images working together with still spaces. Therefore it should consists of two types of spaces:

> IN : the engagement of public inputs; > OUT: the showcase of images in spaces.

The proposed programme is a Archive Center for City Images.

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Following the sequence of programmes which is ordered in terms of a change from the most public to the most private, programmes are then arranged into the spaces correspondingly:

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The design is trying to suggest a new type of long-lasting city space built up from an existing urban fabric, at the same time allowing new developments around it. The quality of Stillness of the site is maintained as an underground structure, serves as a place to rest and also a platform to review life in a static space, tailor-made for the cityscape of Central, Hong Kong.

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The main entrance leads to the big staircases, as seating area within the gallery, allowing public to contribute their own photographic images, as individual point of views, to

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The involvements from the general public suggested, Still City, as a city image archive, is a place where moments of

the vibrant city are frozen in the backyard of the city.

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The open galleries run through each floor, all the way from the roof garden to the underground.

The gradual change of light & darkness, the subtle changes to the slope on ground and ceiling, all work

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Through the thresholds opened to the spiral gallery, or walking up the archive hall from the underground,

one walks through the projections of city images which being documented, recalling ones'memories

through time in the lightness of image & the emptiness of space.

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