Looking for the voids : learning from Asia's liminal urban spaces as a foundation to expand an architectural practice / Ǧraldine Borio ; with a foreword by Thomas Daniell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borio, Géraldine, author.

Contributor:

Daniell, Thomas, 1967- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Asia.

Architecture.

Space (Architecture)--Asia.

Space (Architecture).

City planning--Asia.

City planning.

Sociology, Urban--Asia.

Sociology, Urban.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

220 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Park Books, [2023]

Summary:

"In Looking for the Voids, Hong Kong-based Swiss architect Ǧraldine Borio presents findings from more than fifteen years of experimental urban research in Asia. Her research focuses on the interstitial spaces of the built environment, the back and in-between alleys and other territorial buffer zones that are in constant flux and move between the poles of inside-outside, public-private, as well as legal-illegal. The concrete design principles derived from analyzing urban typologies in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Seoul, and from engaging with residents and their informal appropriation of such semi-private urban spaces, can offer useful tools to architects and urban designers alike"--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Projects

1. Bangkok expressway

2. Hong Kong back lanes

3. Stag

4. Connecting spaces

5. Duckling Hill

6. Peng Chau Island

7. Wut Tung Sat

8. Lot 313

9. Seoul mini-mountains

10. Inverted Hong Kong

Looking for the voids

Principles

I. Defining the void

II. Interlocking gaps

III. Expanding boundaries

IV. Overlapping functions

V. Being frugal

Drawings

Notes:

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783038602972

3038602973

OCLC:

1427168292

Publisher Number:

99996484586

9783038602972