This is a narrative project explores the correlation between ""The Unity of Heaven and Man"" and ""The alleyways in Kowloon Walled City"", depicting how an ideal imaginary metropolis could be formed based on the complexity of alleyways, and interpreting certain kind of human activities that could be held in such a nature-humankind creation.
“The Unity of Heaven and Man” is a traditional Chinese philosophy, which highlights the fundamental significance of nature to human affairs. ""Heaven"" represents ""nature"" and ""god"", while ""Man"" refers to ""humankind"" and ""society"". It is also interpreted as four spatial features in this main concept, which includes Tree-like Extension, Hierarchical Levels, Enclosure and Semi-Openness. A whole new vision of a continuous space is shown under the tectonics of WUXING, a form of ancient Chinese geomancy, which includes wood, fire, earth, metal and water, and represents specific seasons for each zone, provokes a certain order and different activities.
Most of communities in Hong Kong are lack of strong connection between District Councillors, residents, and the community. Our research and observations show that young people nowadays actually do care about their community and are willing to contribute if there is a comfortable way. Hence, we hope to provide a gamified mobile platform that can enable residents, district councilors, and the community to build a stronger connection.‘Cobuild’ provides an interesting way for residents to express their opinions and participate in contributing comfortably and effortlessly. They can begin to rebuild their own unique community with the help of the district councilor by using this application.