Wong Garkay

“Redemption on the Gulf: Adaptive Re-use of Post Oil Infrastructure”

By 2050, the world will have reached peak oil, resulting in a large number of defunct structures. My proposal seeks to reuse the oil rigs and existing petroleum infrastructure and repurpose them for biofuel production and transport.  The project deals

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“Redemption on the Gulf: Adaptive Re-use of Post Oil Infrastructure”

By 2050, the world will have reached peak oil, resulting in a large number of defunct structures. My proposal seeks to reuse the oil rigs and existing petroleum infrastructure and repurpose them for biofuel production and transport.  The project deals

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Prison Re[Form] x Adaptive Reuse

1STJURYPANEL01 1STJURYPANEL02 1STJURYPANEL04 1STJURYPANEL03 Thesis statement: This project proposes the repurposing of commissioned oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to explore a new contemporary prison model that challenges the current incarceration philosophy in the US. THE IDEA OF

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Prison Re[Form] x Adaptive Reuse

1STJURYPANEL01 1STJURYPANEL02 1STJURYPANEL04 1STJURYPANEL03 Thesis statement: This project proposes the repurposing of commissioned oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico to explore a new contemporary prison model that challenges the current incarceration philosophy in the US. THE IDEA OF

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[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure

  [Levee]ing Cultural Erasure Resistant Infrastructure in Coastal Cities To most Americans, the city of New Orleans is ‘foreign’ place, more a European than a US city. The city owes its  much of its unique culture to the influence of

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[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure

  [Levee]ing Cultural Erasure Resistant Infrastructure in Coastal Cities To most Americans, the city of New Orleans is ‘foreign’ place, more a European than a US city. The city owes its  much of its unique culture to the influence of

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[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure

[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure Resistant Infrastructure in Coastal Cities To most Americans, the city of New Orleans is ‘foreign’ place, more a European than a US city. The city owes its  much of its unique culture to the influence of Spanish

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[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure

[Levee]ing Cultural Erasure Resistant Infrastructure in Coastal Cities To most Americans, the city of New Orleans is ‘foreign’ place, more a European than a US city. The city owes its  much of its unique culture to the influence of Spanish

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Thesis statement: Navigate between two morally and spatially conflicting spaces using the juxtaposition of the church/brothel as method. How can massing, materiality and transparency transgress and obscure the boundary between two types of opposing spaces, challenging the existing social frameworks,

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Thesis statement: Navigate between two morally and spatially conflicting spaces using the juxtaposition of the church/brothel as method. How can massing, materiality and transparency transgress and obscure the boundary between two types of opposing spaces, challenging the existing social frameworks,

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling of Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Thesis statement: Navigate between two morally and spatially conflicting spaces using the juxtaposition of the church/brothel as method. How can massing, materiality and transparency transgress and obscure the boundary between two types of opposing spaces, challenging the existing social frameworks,

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling of Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Thesis statement: Navigate between two morally and spatially conflicting spaces using the juxtaposition of the church/brothel as method. How can massing, materiality and transparency transgress and obscure the boundary between two types of opposing spaces, challenging the existing social frameworks,

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Site: Temple Street, Mong kok, and Wan Chai “The law controlling sex in Hong Kong, like the one in the UK, follows the teaching of the Wolfenden Report: Although the law decriminalizes sex trade, all activities related to it (for

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Site: Temple Street, Mong kok, and Wan Chai “The law controlling sex in Hong Kong, like the one in the UK, follows the teaching of the Wolfenden Report: Although the law decriminalizes sex trade, all activities related to it (for

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling of Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Reclamation Street – Photo by Jan Smith 2012 “The law controlling sex in Hong Kong, like the one in the UK, follows the teaching of the Wolfenden Report: Although the law decriminalizes sex trade, all activities related to it (for

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Transgressive Multipli[cities]: Unveiling and Reveiling of Hong Kong’s Forbidden Spaces

Reclamation Street – Photo by Jan Smith 2012 “The law controlling sex in Hong Kong, like the one in the UK, follows the teaching of the Wolfenden Report: Although the law decriminalizes sex trade, all activities related to it (for

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