HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HUNG HOM CAMPUS
LOCATION:
Hung Hom, HK
AREA:
26,000 sqm
COMPLETION:
2007
CLIENT:
The HK Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Community College Hung Hom Campus is a collaboration project with AD+RG Limited. By re-inventing the courtyard typology in the high-density urban context, the architecture of Polytechnic University Community College campus seeks for an innovative ways to merge courtyard typology to podium and tower typology.

 

The tower design explores alternative approaches to typical lift-dominated model of vertical buildings, with four strategic voids created vertically and each became activity centres for four-levels of classrooms, the design organizes the program into several four-storied cubical massing as planning module. Through offsetting these cubical modules, a series of inter-connected greenery sky gardens are developed into an alternative pedestrian system all the way up as semi-outdoor campus spaces, while the podium is also articulated into levels of terraces cascading along the main pedestrian path to enhance connectivity of the greenery throughout the podium and tower.

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HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HUNG HOM CAMPUS
LOCATION:
Hung Hom, HK
AREA:
26,000 sqm
COMPLETION:
2007
CLIENT:
The HK Polytechnic University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Community College Hung Hom Campus is a collaboration project with AD+RG Limited. By re-inventing the courtyard typology in the high-density urban context, the architecture of Polytechnic University Community College campus seeks for an innovative ways to merge courtyard typology to podium and tower typology.

 

The tower design explores alternative approaches to typical lift-dominated model of vertical buildings, with four strategic voids created vertically and each became activity centres for four-levels of classrooms, the design organizes the program into several four-storied cubical massing as planning module. Through offsetting these cubical modules, a series of inter-connected greenery sky gardens are developed into an alternative pedestrian system all the way up as semi-outdoor campus spaces, while the podium is also articulated into levels of terraces cascading along the main pedestrian path to enhance connectivity of the greenery throughout the podium and tower.

 
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