On Sundays and public holidays thousands of prediminantly Filipina domestic helpers, enjoying their only time off, gather to picnic and socialise on Central’s walkways and squares, which makes for a festive atmosphere; note, however, that many of the buildings in this area are roped off.
The Site Parameter is stretched along the 4 axis of Queen road central crosswalk including the vantage points from all possible angles with in the cross walk directions.
Parts of the site are attached to the following streets
1. Queen Road Central Sreet
2. D'Aguilar Street
3. Theatre Lane Street
4. Pedder Street
5. Stanley Street
6. Wellington Street
Two Main Pedestrians flow node.
1. Most of the pedestrians flows are generated from the closer by central MTR station down on the pedder street.
2. Another important pedestrians flow node is called "Lan Kwai Fong" further up on the D'Aguilar Street. Lan Kwai Fong is a small square of streets in Central, Hong Kong. The area was dedicated to hawkers before the Second World War but underwent a renaissance in the mid-1980s. It is now a popular expatriate haunt in Hong Kong for drinking, clubbing and dining. The street Lan Kwai Fong is L-shaped with two ends joining with D'Aguilar Street.
Site as Organism / Never goes to sleep.
The Street is never empty, but consisted of complicated and conflicting networks of different types of pedestrians raging from business men/women during early weekdays to energetic shoppers during late morning and night life enthusiasts at night which lasts all night on weekends starting from friday to saturday and sometime sunday there can still be a lot of tourists who hang out until dawn. Then after the clubs, bars and restaurants closed at 4am, the usual business of cleaning the street begin simultaneously with all the delivering trucks deliver goods to all these to be ready for the next busy business monday morning.
The Overall massing of the site and surrounding areas. These were modeled base on real height. Also, the slopes in which the buildings sit also modeled according to the varying topographic site condition. Some of the buildings which are visible from the Queen Road Central crosswalk also modeled as a visual extension beyond site boundary,
Detail modeling of building depths and facade details including existing shop signage and other semiotic components.
Detail modeling of the existing shop signage with various types of structure including cantilevered or mounted type, as well as hanging type.
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