TRANSFORMATION AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INTERACTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HIGH DENSITY SELF-BUILT NEIGHBORHOODS IN HONG KONG AND DHAKA
People like to interact with their surrounding environment with their tools in hand. In modern complex and compact urban built-environment, the interaction is certainly of different level and different scale comparing to our urban predecessors or past generations who used to habituate in rural country life. Whether they enjoyed relatively higher level of freedom in interaction is a separate question, however, the practice of interaction is becoming much and much more restricted due to different tools of interaction. We distinguished ownership pattern and building bylaws as tools of interaction. Then we compared the resulting transformation in built forms in two mega cities namely Hong Kong and Dhaka, which contrast in their pattern of built-environment, by selecting similar high density self-built neighborhoods inside. We analyzed transformation through parameters such as building and partition level transformation, reasons of transformation and number of transformation. The practice of interaction is played at different constrained levels such as body-utensils, furniture, rooms-partitions, individual built forms, and neighborhoods. This paper highlights the inherent socio-cultural values that exist in self-built neighborhoods in cities, which are incrementally developed through generations. Through this comparative study of gradual transformation of individual built units resulting on different levels of interaction inside these comparable self-built neighborhoods of Hong Kong and Dhaka, this paper shows that dissimilarity exists in the degree of transformation depending on the characteristics of available contextual tools.
TAREEF HAYAT KHAN BEISI JIA
Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road Hong Kong
国际会议
广州
英文
160-169
2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）