Exploring Design Potentials in Porous Urban Space : Split Vision Urbanism HK through Montage
(2016) Beyond Ism p.117-117- Abstract
- Split Vision Urbanism HK is a design research project located at the intersection of urban governance, architectural design, and media arts. It seeks to critically address the relationship between formal and informal structures in order to uncover the hidden potentials of porous urban space, extracting new territories for design practices to engage the generative aspects of high density.
Drawing on landscape urbanism’s critique on conventional urban planning, the project builds upon the tradition of exploring the potentials of places and spaces in urban culture through movement. The objective of Split Vision Urbanism HK is to detect, analyze, and evaluate the typological qualities of porous urban space, constructing a scenario... (More) - Split Vision Urbanism HK is a design research project located at the intersection of urban governance, architectural design, and media arts. It seeks to critically address the relationship between formal and informal structures in order to uncover the hidden potentials of porous urban space, extracting new territories for design practices to engage the generative aspects of high density.
Drawing on landscape urbanism’s critique on conventional urban planning, the project builds upon the tradition of exploring the potentials of places and spaces in urban culture through movement. The objective of Split Vision Urbanism HK is to detect, analyze, and evaluate the typological qualities of porous urban space, constructing a scenario framework for design intervention in high density. The project defines porous urban space as a spatial typology which tends to proliferate on an informal basis in high density, producing an interiorized environment of rhizomatic multiplicities that conflate the disciplinary differences between architecture and urbanism. Drawing on the hypothesis that porous urban space holds unexplored potentials for generative design practices, the
project takes a series of city blocks located in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district as subject matter of analysis to postulate a critique on the urban renewal processes that currently transforms Mong Kok from a porous and complex construct towards a deterministic constellation of figures and grounds. As urban renewal is orchestrated through the agencies that govern public space, low frequency
recording of the discrepancies between the informal and the formal reveal differentiations between the outside and the inside of a city block. This split vision urbanism unfolds a territory for experimentation, where inconsistencies between formalized routines and site-specific potentials
can be detected through audio-visual recording, and processed through literature reviews and design experiments. Examining the intersection between collage and montage for data collection and visualization, the project explores combinations of quantitative and qualitative data to extrapolate the complexities of porous urban space. (Less)
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- Dahl, Per-Johan LU
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- 2016
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- Beyond Ism : The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism - The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism
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- Dahl, Caroline ; Diedrich, Lisa ; Lindholm, Gunilla ; Vicenzotti, Vera and Vogel, Nina
- pages
- 124 pages
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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- Beyond Ism
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- Alnarp, Sweden
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- 2016-10-19 - 2016-10-21
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- 978-91-576-9472-0
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- English
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abstract = {{Split Vision Urbanism HK is a design research project located at the intersection of urban governance, architectural design, and media arts. It seeks to critically address the relationship between formal and informal structures in order to uncover the hidden potentials of porous urban space, extracting new territories for design practices to engage the generative aspects of high density. <br/>Drawing on landscape urbanism’s critique on conventional urban planning, the project builds upon the tradition of exploring the potentials of places and spaces in urban culture through movement. The objective of Split Vision Urbanism HK is to detect, analyze, and evaluate the typological qualities of porous urban space, constructing a scenario framework for design intervention in high density. The project defines porous urban space as a spatial typology which tends to proliferate on an informal basis in high density, producing an interiorized environment of rhizomatic multiplicities that conflate the disciplinary differences between architecture and urbanism. Drawing on the hypothesis that porous urban space holds unexplored potentials for generative design practices, the<br/>project takes a series of city blocks located in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district as subject matter of analysis to postulate a critique on the urban renewal processes that currently transforms Mong Kok from a porous and complex construct towards a deterministic constellation of figures and grounds. As urban renewal is orchestrated through the agencies that govern public space, low frequency<br/>recording of the discrepancies between the informal and the formal reveal differentiations between the outside and the inside of a city block. This split vision urbanism unfolds a territory for experimentation, where inconsistencies between formalized routines and site-specific potentials<br/>can be detected through audio-visual recording, and processed through literature reviews and design experiments. Examining the intersection between collage and montage for data collection and visualization, the project explores combinations of quantitative and qualitative data to extrapolate the complexities of porous urban space.}},
author = {{Dahl, Per-Johan}},
booktitle = {{Beyond Ism : The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism}},
editor = {{Dahl, Caroline and Diedrich, Lisa and Lindholm, Gunilla and Vicenzotti, Vera and Vogel, Nina}},
isbn = {{978-91-576-9472-0}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{117--117}},
publisher = {{Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences}},
title = {{Exploring Design Potentials in Porous Urban Space : Split Vision Urbanism HK through Montage}},
year = {{2016}},
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