Chung King Mansions
Chung King Mansions
Chung King Mansions is a strange and isolated architectural system, a third world block with multi-national citizens inserted inside the middle of Tsim Sha Tsui, one of the most bustling area in Hong Kong. People are afraid of that place, as well they are curious about it, for its food, operation and culture.
REMOVABLE (spacial dynamic)
Transforming shops into removable units with support of railway to achieve: Freedom of space using Removing closed shops out of the plan can achieve all space usable. Optimization of shop distribution Different distribution of shops can create various zoning like eating area, retailing area, etc. Flexibility of festival celebration Making good use of the advantage of the globalizing chatacters, the removable plan can meet various needs for different cultural festival celebrations and activities. Preference of neighborhood Providing chance to choose neighborhood by personal preference can efficiently avoid unhappy experience or even conflict caused by different cultural background.
FLEXIBLE (interior transforming)
Designing the removable units spacial flexible to achieve: Multi-functional Making the units can transform from shop to place of gathering, living, dinning and other activities. Volume & Acreage changable Making the units be able to change volume and acreage based on specific functions and conditions to make whole space more efficient to use. (e.g. shops shrinking to small box leaving space for corridor when they are not in business.)