The Hong Kong Alternative Car Park Tower, designed by Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan, is an alternative building typology that could fit for a city with very limited land resources. At the same time, they are critiquing the current developments of most metropolitan cities: growing rapidly without vision and preparation for our human future. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Most cities still utilize the logic of 19th and 20th century design whereas this traditional urban/architecture logic does not involve consideration of sustainable strategies and socio-cultural interactions in a never-ending world. This carpark becomes a testing field for us to pose out an alternative type of our city but not only a carpark tower.
This carpark tower segregates into five layers and laminate five open air public platforms and dining areas. This kind of mixed-use and hybrid design could enrich the value of this building. The building no longer becomes a city of amenities, but more or less becoming a public precinct for people to live, to enjoy, to rest, and to celebrate.
Mixed-use refers to an idea of space, alienated to the program and the natural environment, which contradicts the historical experience of constructed space and its known forms of classification. This is what we are challenging in this project. It is about contradicting with the surroundings; a contradiction that something may be wrong, but happens everywhere.
Project Team: Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan (Atelier CASA)
Location: Hong Kong, China
Award: Honorable mention
Organizer: ACCA (UK)
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- Courtesy of Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan
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- Courtesy of Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan
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- Courtesy of Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan
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- Courtesy of Chris Y. H. Chan + Stephanie M. L. Tan
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Rubbish…
Perhaps we should stop designing cities around cars, rather than starting to build monuments to them.
hahahahaha
I’m not entirely clear about how the cars would circulate… is there a car lift somewhere? Or would you simply drive along ramps the entire way up?
Hi Jackie,
thanks for you comments!
this is a carpark base on car lift. i finished a lot carpark buildings in asia cities. if we using the ramp system, it just kill the concept….what we looking for is … in between the carpark, it will become public space. we are looking forward this building one day no longer be a carpark, and change to be other function, this design will give the max feasibility for future…. we are look for the future. we believe that is the sustainable life of architecture…..it is not about the form and outlook nor green…it is about function and how could we change the notion of what we have in the world and our cities, cheers!
i actually think this is a great idea. much better than many of the other HK carpark towers posted on here.
One issue that will decide whether this design will make or break is the rate of car being “loaded” into the lift, in other words, the time it takes for the car and its driver to wait…imagine the queuing space you need outside the carpark.
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