The document discusses reevaluating public space in Hong Kong and how architecture can better connect communities. It proposes experiments with "particles" representing people and their behaviors to generate new paths and nodes within a site over time. This could help identify transitional spaces between public and private realms that amplify adjoining urban spaces and recapture streets for people.
32. Public Space by Wolf Prix Public Space by Wolf Prix
UFA Cinema Center American Revolution Center
“the idea of an urban
“streets have been recaptured
transistor-an architecture that
for people, buildings have
is capable of amplifying the
been erected in which people
urban spaces adjoining.”
can live with reasonable
dignity,”
33. How can we see the Site? Site
potentials through experiments
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61. Paths/Nodes of activities Generator
Particles (set the number of performers)
Behaviour
- Avoid certain locations
- Seek (locations and/or existing nodes)
-Wander (define personal space; transform public space into semi-private)
-Alignment + cohesion (group behaviour)odes
-Separation (individuality))
Calculate particle movement according to specific times of the day
Draw connections according to the proximity of the current behaviour
and the previous one