Thoughts on Hong Kong:
::::::::::::HONG KONG AS CORBUSIAN UTOPIA:
• Wolf, Michael. "Hong Kong: Front Door / Back Door"
-high-rise architecture is photographed without the romance of the early high-rise photographers who marveled at them as novelties.
-photo essay about the inherent contradictions in hong kong: 1. tension between the Western perception of an urban dystopia, and the realization of the modernist Corbusian models 2. tension between the interpretation of these places as vast, anonymous, monstrosities, and the local preference to live in these buildings as opposed to the traditional western-style houses as verifying the success of the model, here, of the "machine for living." 3. tension between the extreme density of the urban settlement and the surrounding unpopulated park lands. 4. start contrast between the monotonous, repetitive aesthetic of the highrise construction and the small, idiosyncratic expressions of the local lifestyle that emerge, sometimes only peaking out, but other times, in older developments, as total disorder of the building aesthetic, with a lot of personality added through tenant alterations.
::::::::::::MTR development model
-subway is owned/operated by a private corporation
-it gets the financing for huge new subway construction projectsby securing from the government development rights to the land near the new stations it creates. So it always has an interest in creating the highest density development to recover its investment... and then some...
http://www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/rccree/select_proj/1Land_Const_Eco/Integrated_Rail_Property_dev_Model.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation
::::::::::::Generic infrastructure-like buildings: MACHINE FOR LIVING
::::::::::::HONG KONG AS CORBUSIAN UTOPIA:
• Wolf, Michael. "Hong Kong: Front Door / Back Door"
-high-rise architecture is photographed without the romance of the early high-rise photographers who marveled at them as novelties.
-photo essay about the inherent contradictions in hong kong: 1. tension between the Western perception of an urban dystopia, and the realization of the modernist Corbusian models 2. tension between the interpretation of these places as vast, anonymous, monstrosities, and the local preference to live in these buildings as opposed to the traditional western-style houses as verifying the success of the model, here, of the "machine for living." 3. tension between the extreme density of the urban settlement and the surrounding unpopulated park lands. 4. start contrast between the monotonous, repetitive aesthetic of the highrise construction and the small, idiosyncratic expressions of the local lifestyle that emerge, sometimes only peaking out, but other times, in older developments, as total disorder of the building aesthetic, with a lot of personality added through tenant alterations.
::::::::::::MTR development model
-subway is owned/operated by a private corporation
-it gets the financing for huge new subway construction projectsby securing from the government development rights to the land near the new stations it creates. So it always has an interest in creating the highest density development to recover its investment... and then some...
http://www.bre.polyu.edu.hk/rccree/select_proj/1Land_Const_Eco/Integrated_Rail_Property_dev_Model.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR_Corporation
::::::::::::Generic infrastructure-like buildings: MACHINE FOR LIVING
see: Hong Kong: front door / back door, Michael Wolf.
::::::::::::SHAMA everywhere: branded living for the mobile dweller
::::::::::::Highways through buildings:
::::::::::::Philipinos using the circulation routes as living rooms...
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