TANG Ho Yin

Consumption Machine: Terraforming a Post-Industrial Enclave

Thesis Statement During the past hundred years, rapid industrialization has brought huge impact advancing our daily life. Factory-towns, once the ultimate expression of production and functionalism, are now ruins and symbols of memory after abandonment. Yet, the real contamination situation at these industrial sites is often concealed by local

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Consumption Machine: Terraforming a Post-Industrial Enclave

Thesis Statement During the past hundred years, rapid industrialization has brought huge impact advancing our daily life. Factory-towns, once the ultimate expression of production and functionalism, are now ruins and symbols of memory after abandonment. Yet, the real contamination situation at these industrial sites is often concealed by local

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Terraforming a Post-Industrial Enclave

Thesis statement During the past hundred years, rapid industrialization has brought huge impact advancing our daily life, enabling us to manipulate the nature without much consideration of consequence. Factory-town, once the pronoun stands for efficiency, power and productivity, the ultimate

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Terraforming a Post-Industrial Enclave

Thesis statement During the past hundred years, rapid industrialization has brought huge impact advancing our daily life, enabling us to manipulate the nature without much consideration of consequence. Factory-town, once the pronoun stands for efficiency, power and productivity, the ultimate

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Terraforming a Post-Industrial Landscape

“Terraforming; is a hypothetical process developed from both science fiction and theoretical planetary engineering, which deliberately modifying the surface topography or ecology to make a place habitable” Carl Sagan, Article: The Planet Venus, Science #133 (1961) Thesis statement “…19th Century

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Terraforming a Post-Industrial Landscape

“Terraforming; is a hypothetical process developed from both science fiction and theoretical planetary engineering, which deliberately modifying the surface topography or ecology to make a place habitable” Carl Sagan, Article: The Planet Venus, Science #133 (1961) Thesis statement “…19th Century

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Transmigration of a Post-Industrial Landscape

Why? The primary objective of this thesis is to come up with a Conservation Design Guideline, for the transformation of Post-Industrial Landscape in China. Unlike other European countries, the notion of preserving industrial heritage is a relatively new concept in

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Transmigration of a Post-Industrial Landscape

Why? The primary objective of this thesis is to come up with a Conservation Design Guideline, for the transformation of Post-Industrial Landscape in China. Unlike other European countries, the notion of preserving industrial heritage is a relatively new concept in

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Transmigration of a Post-Industrial Landscape

Fig. 1 The contemporary “cathedral” in 21st Century. 1. Thesis Statement “…19th Century modernity and 20th Century modernism were driven by collective utopian wish-images: largely unconscious desires for social harmony and reconciliation.”(1) Architecture is always political and inseparable from the

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Made in Beijing 2.0: Transmigration of a Post-Industrial Landscape

Fig. 1 The contemporary “cathedral” in 21st Century. 1. Thesis Statement “…19th Century modernity and 20th Century modernism were driven by collective utopian wish-images: largely unconscious desires for social harmony and reconciliation.”(1) Architecture is always political and inseparable from the

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The Decontamination & Reoccupation of the Post-industrial Landscape

Decontamination & Re-occupation of a Post-Industrial Landscape Industrial site has always been the best prototype demonstrating the notion of “Form follows function”, all the pipes and frames were precisely built for the best efficiency and their functional role only, yet

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The Decontamination & Reoccupation of the Post-industrial Landscape

Decontamination & Re-occupation of a Post-Industrial Landscape Industrial site has always been the best prototype demonstrating the notion of “Form follows function”, all the pipes and frames were precisely built for the best efficiency and their functional role only, yet

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