SPACEDesigning Accessible Open Space for All

Prof. Wallace Chang Ping HungSchool of Architecture, CUHK

What composes SPACE?

Open Space Network - Nolli’s Map

Accumulation of Experience from Childhood

CHILDHOODEXPERIENCE

Peter Zumthor, Teaching Architecture, Learning ArchitectureThinking Architecture

The roots of our understanding of architecture lie in our childhood, in our youth: they lie in our biography…

Our Playground?

Our Street?

Our town?

Our Living Room?

Our Library?

DAILY LIFE

Peter Cookson Smith, Urban Design of Impermanence

• Conducive AdaptationAn on-going process of adaptation responds to a constantly evolving set of requirements.

• Interactive InterpretationA ‘place’ might therefore have physical dimensions that are site specific, but not

necessarily a finite form. In this way it comes to symbolize a changing sequence of interacting events and activities.’

Collectivity

Adaptation

Conducive Adaptation

Interpretation

Interactive Interpretation

‘Conducive Adaptation’Kowloon walled city

Roof as communal park

Interactive InterpretationThe universal platform for daily life

Internal streets generated in response to the city fabric in the neighborhood

OPEN SPACE FOR ALL

From Kai Tak Nullahto Kai Tak RiverWaste water collection, water treatment, open nullah, ecological river?

1846 drawing by British Military

- Aesthetic of Sustainability- Living Dialogue with River- Contemporary Art & Culture Perspective

Co-Habitat

Green Art

TO KWA WAN