Towards a volumetric city
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
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| author | Yip, Ho Kwan (Ho Kwan Mavis) |
| author2 | Nader Tehrani. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/707542019-04-10T23:29:46Z Towards a volumetric city Yip, Ho Kwan (Ho Kwan Mavis) Nader Tehrani. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Architecture. Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012. Page 180 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-175). The Ground is dead. In extremely densed urban area, the single ground do not have the luxury of space to accommodate programmes besides circulation. Other urban components such as elevators, bridges, underground passage are also circulatory oriented. The building mass have grown volumetrically and becomes thicker while the ground remains relatively thin and planar. In Hong Kong having its urban density ranking the highest in the world, its grounds have undergone a prolong struggle for appropriate reinvention. This city of commerce has favored an emergence of hyper-rational logic that permits the realization of some utopian proposals including the Corbusien plan. Such logic has also formed a "Bowl Shape" transverse-section from the mountain to the harbor, brutally revealing the differences in real-estate value across the section. The thesis takes the opportunity to reinvent a new ground - a datum - which reorganizes the commercial value distribution, reinvents generic typologies and at the same time liberates the natural ground. New cityscapes can be designed above and below the new datum which permit the architecture and architect to reclaim the "dead" ground. The Ground is alive. by Ho Kwan Yip. M.Arch. 2012-05-15T21:09:37Z 2012-05-15T21:09:37Z 2012 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70754 787876708 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 180 p. application/pdf a-cc-hk Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Yip, Ho Kwan (Ho Kwan Mavis) Towards a volumetric city |
| title | Towards a volumetric city |
| title_full | Towards a volumetric city |
| title_fullStr | Towards a volumetric city |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a volumetric city |
| title_short | Towards a volumetric city |
| title_sort | towards a volumetric city |
| topic | Architecture. |
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