Design for Ultra-Consumerism in a Mega-City: The Development of Shopping Architecture in Hong Kong
The design of modem shopping facilities in Hong Kong has gone through a long evolutionary process. The earliest forms of concentrated shopping facilities in Hong Kong were mobile street stalls congregating in open-air street markets and shops selling similar or complementary merchandises set up along the same streets; these traditional shopping places can still be found in the highly urbanized environment of Hong Kong today. The prototype of Hong Kongs shopping- facility architecture is the shophouse of southern China, which is a building of two to four storeys and consisting of a shop on the ground-floor and residential units on the upper floors. In post-World War II, the traditional shophouse typology evolved into the most common form of building in Hong Kong-- the typical residential tower perched on a commercial podium block. In the 1970s, the design of shopping facilities took on an urban design dimension by becoming the central element of the planning of New Towns. The purpose of this paper is to examin the design and development of modern shopping facilities in the context of Hong Kong and to show how the architectural design of such facilities has evolved and adapted to Hong Kongs fast-changing local sociourban condition after World War II. The analytical basis of the paper is to trace the evolution of Hong Kongs shopping architecture through the territorys socio-economic development, and examine how the design of shopping architecture adapts to the improved spending power of the local people and their corresponding shopping habits. The concluding section of the paper discusses the increasingly important role of research to meet future challenges in the design of shopping architecture in Hong Kong.
Ho-Yin Lee Stephen Siu-Yu Lau
Department of Architecture The University of Hong Kong
国际会议
广州
英文
183-192
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）