SYNOPSIS

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Hong Kong Studio (hk-studio) is an elective unit offered as a global studio based in Hong Kong bringing together students from the Department of Architecture and Interior Architecture at Hong Kong University Space and Curtin University.

This global studio provides students with the unique opportunity to experience the “collage city” of Hong Kong and to work in partnership with colleagues in HKU Space University. Urban design issues will be explored that will look specifically at the built environment through the investigation of urban scapes, urban narratives and urban recordings.

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DESIGN

Chaos theory is the study of underlying systems and order found within random data or chaos.

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The butterfly effect is one of the resultants of chaos. A small change in the initial condition produces drastic changes in the long term.

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Chaos a state of confusion and disorder that produces change from the initial condition. A series of dynamic systems and patterns which can be discovered when analysing the small scale events which lack predictability.  

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Order a state of logic which occurs because there are differences in the initial condition which becomes perceived order. Order is the long term effect of chaos.

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Postcard 1: built environment [place + character]

Hong Kong as an organised chaotic system.

Sky scrapers and buildings become a part of the ‘permanent system.’