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Phosphorous Gardens
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For decades, developers in
Hong Kong have been advertising and constructing the same overused housing model,
a center core wrapped by eight units. Guided by code, developers slice the
buildings to such degree that no matter the overall form, each conforms to
essentially the same mundane plan where every unit has access to “ventilation”
and “daylight.” Within the density of Hong
Kong, these overpowering crenulated facades began to blend together and form impenetrable
walls.
To instill “real” difference
in Hong Kong is very challenging. People like to be in the collective. Loops,
chops, folds and twists made to create residential variation do not address the
real urban condition.
We propose a new type of housing
based on the idea of an urban interior: Phosphorous Gardens, a dense mass containing 4000 units configured as a perimeter
building. This thin band of housing, limited to one unit and a corridor, projects
views from each unit to the city, while the large courtyard-atrium is filled
with public space bulges: theatres, lecture halls, etc. It is inserting the entire city within a single building interior.
The dense mass, while flush
on the exterior, is sliced by long and narrow 30° incisions so it is seen as one large wall, thus
embracing the generic Hong Kong condition. Utilizing a double skin of both
crenulated and fritted glass, the interior glows from within, making the
building extremely thin and transparent.
Phosphorous Gardens
embraces the developer’s universal agenda for making housing, but at the same time,
it shares qualitative and softer effects. One cannot help but ask what if Phosphorous
Gardens is a prototype for a larger strategy of proliferation within the city? Would
this be a feasible solution for cities where the street edge is completely
irrelevant and new modes of urbanism are imperative?
Hong Kong have been advertising and constructing the same overused housing model,
a center core wrapped by eight units. Guided by code, developers slice the
buildings to such degree that no matter the overall form, each conforms to
essentially the same mundane plan where every unit has access to “ventilation”
and “daylight.” Within the density of Hong
Kong, these overpowering crenulated facades began to blend together and form impenetrable
walls.
To instill “real” difference
in Hong Kong is very challenging. People like to be in the collective. Loops,
chops, folds and twists made to create residential variation do not address the
real urban condition.
We propose a new type of housing
based on the idea of an urban interior: Phosphorous Gardens, a dense mass containing 4000 units configured as a perimeter
building. This thin band of housing, limited to one unit and a corridor, projects
views from each unit to the city, while the large courtyard-atrium is filled
with public space bulges: theatres, lecture halls, etc. It is inserting the entire city within a single building interior.
The dense mass, while flush
on the exterior, is sliced by long and narrow 30° incisions so it is seen as one large wall, thus
embracing the generic Hong Kong condition. Utilizing a double skin of both
crenulated and fritted glass, the interior glows from within, making the
building extremely thin and transparent.
Phosphorous Gardens
embraces the developer’s universal agenda for making housing, but at the same time,
it shares qualitative and softer effects. One cannot help but ask what if Phosphorous
Gardens is a prototype for a larger strategy of proliferation within the city? Would
this be a feasible solution for cities where the street edge is completely
irrelevant and new modes of urbanism are imperative?
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