The special design and features of Hong Kong Design Institute is an outstanding example of sustainability in dense urban environment. French architect Coldefy & Associes Architectes Urbanistes thorough analysis of the surroundings shows a typical Hong Kong environment, assembling a mass of people in the podiums, filled with transportation, retail, restaurants and other leisure activities, while when ascending in the residential towers, isolation comes in. This analysis resulted into a decomposition of programmatic elements as architectural components such as vertical towers and horizontal spaces engaging with the public and landscaped spaces, a shared space connecting functions and a diagonal connector expressing mobility while experiencing the different levels of the building. Those components are a reinterpretation of the city within the city, a place for interaction.
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