Unlike more typical new developments
which continue to emulate
western approaches to hiding cars,
our proposal looks to capture new potentials for
Hong Kong’s infrastructural personality
by integrating
the ritual of “the .0drive”
with mixed programs.
Role: Project Manager
Client: [AC-CA]
Location Hong Kong SAR
Year Built:
Our proposal for the Hong Kong Car Parc competition, which aims at romanticizing the car as an active urban object while simultaneously implementing sustainable strategies. In addition to including parking spaces in the rotational design, shopping, food and landscaping aspects are also included in the program.
Hong Kong’s relationship to the car is defined by having a small ratio of people to automobiles. In a city of over 7 million, only 461,000 cars are registered to local drivers. This massively dense city contains only 566,618 parking spaces.
While so many cities are forced to store a massive volume of automobiles in ways that don’t negatively impact the street, Hong Kong can afford to be differentFrom the Old Airport, to richly layered pedestrian walkways, outdoor escalators, and floating water-borne neighborhoods – the city pulses with circulation, both horizontal and vertical.We see this as an inspiration and an opportunity to make the garage an iconic object type, where 'the drive is an unforgettable exhilarating. event.
New storm water management strategy that creates landscape retreats in the sky and irrigates the athletic field occupying the ground plane. The car parc is a civic, mixed-use armature of landscape, shopping, food, sports, views, and parking spaces tangled up in a kinetic rotation of animated circulation.
