Graduation Projects

BA (Hons) in Landscape Architecture
Ho Hiu Lam, Sharon 何曉臨

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The Kwun Tong Linking Promenade-A walkable livable greenery community improvement project
觀塘海濱連接通道:打造宜步行宜居的綠色社區

This project mainly aims to improve the Kwun Tong waterfront near the Kwun Tong Industrial Area and turn it into a walkable and livable green space community. As the Kwun Tong Promenade and Cha Kwo Ling Promenade are now separated by the Kwun Tong Vehicle Pier, this project will improve the walking convenience and living experience of the promenade. This plan solves the negative impacts of narrow pedestrian space and lack of greenery in industrial areas. Insufficient sports facilities, insufficient cultural atmosphere, and most of the land used for factories and businesses are also problems. Through research and comprehensive analysis, the project identified the need to explore creative solutions, such as widening routes, connecting broken port promenades to make walking more comfortable, adding more greenery and using sustainable facilities to improve environmental pollution, add more multiple community communication and exercise spaces improve the healthy life balance of residents and office workers living in Kwun Tong, making Kwun Tong a livable place. The design concept elements come from famous factories in Kwun Tong and are also taken from the shape of the official salt pond in Kwun Tong during the Southern Song Dynasty.

本計劃主要旨在改善觀塘工業區附近,近觀塘碼頭的海濱位置,將其打造成適合步行、宜居的綠地社區。由於觀塘海濱長廊與茶果嶺海濱長廊現時被觀塘車輛碼頭隔開,此工程將改善海濱長廊的步行便利
性及區內居民的居住體驗。本計劃解決觀塘工業區行人空間狹小及缺乏綠化的負面影響。觀塘工業區體育設施和文化氛圍不足,且大部分土地用作工廠和商業。透過研究和綜合分析,規劃確定需要探索
創造性的解決方案,例如拓寬路線、連接受損的港口長廊使步行更加舒適、增加更多綠化和使用永續設施來改善環境污染、增加更多社區多樣性的交流和體育運動改善觀塘居民及上班族的健康生活平衡,
使觀塘成為宜居之地。設計概念元素來自觀塘名廠及南宋時期觀塘官鹽池的造型。