(non)Park

Isaac Ching Fung

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2022-23

The (non)park, tool to provide Hong Kong citizens ‘the right to the city’, is a scheme & prototype that helps establish a truly public space through acquiring underperforming privatised lands, using landslide protection as cover. By reading power through government owned and funded parks, the thesis argues that colonial powers, whether Britain or China, have always used the public parks as tools to colonise culture and identity on Hong Kong. The project, is a park by Hong Kong and for Hong Kong, that questions the true form of public space which allows Hong Kong identity to emerge through its occupation. The project proposed strips of minimum infrastructure on 105 selected slope that hold voids in between. And the naturally formed Bamboo forest in the framed void, became a tool for the community to shape their ideal form of public space, that are free from the surveillance and control. Not just about accepting the fact that a truly public space can only be archived through grey area of legislation, the (non)park, is more than a public space. Minimum infrastructures on different slopes framed a network of voids for Hong Kong citizens to occupy fluidly, new form of Hong Kong park identity, or even Hong Kong identity, that really belongs to the people will be able to start emerging.

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