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Opaque yet Transparent – A Community Swimming Pool as a Palimpsest in Sau Kei Wan Hong Kong

Part 1 Project 2018
Wai Tat Cheng
 Chinese University of Hong Kong | China
The Past is something cannot be experienced in our daily realities yet it brings great impacts in forming the identities of a city. In the context of Hong Kong, The Design is to create a medium that bridges and re-interpret the past and today as the unique local characters created through the traditional cultures and colonial era are diminishing due to globalisation and Political incidents, questioning, what makes us “US”?

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Living in the modern city of Sau Kei Wan, what we mostly remembered about this district is all the snacks and restaurant along Sau Kei Wan Main Street East. Yet, the historical identity of the street itself as well as the value of the context has been und
Through time, the history and the context has somehow created interesting moments in every corner in Sau Kei Wan, The westernized barrack and the fortress that represented the British sovereignty and the Chinese temples, Tam Kung Temple and Tin Hau Temple
The design intended to create a direct axis linking the one town Sau Kei Wan and the waterfront, the building is being sunken and set aside in order to merge with and stand with the context, while emphazing the importance of the public park that breaks th
The materials are used as a way of reflecting the historical context of Sau Kei Wan, Taking Beinecke rare book & manuscript library in Yale university as rederence, The translucency of the marble allows diffused sunlight to penetrate into the interior of
On the South Side of the building, where the sunlight will be casting from this side during winter, the white and smooth marble surface will create a reflecting effects on the wall surface, the reflection of the cityscape became an ever-changing scenics t
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