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Kowloon-Walled-City.Pdf OUTSIDE IN :: DIY media architecture workshop Kowloon Walled City material For the OUTSIDE-IN Symposium, www.outsidein.se Adam Somlai-Fischer :: aether architecture :: www.aether.hu Contents of this document have been copied from the following websites, and are the property their respective authors. Layout/spelling is left intact. http://www.twenty4.co.uk/on-line/issue001/project02/KWC http://www.flex.co.jp/kowloon/home_e.html http://www.fortunecity.com/campus/averett/374/memories/kc_fr.htm http://www.flex.co.jp/kowloon/home_e.html The complecated creature emit queer circumstances,,, When you saw the Kowloon Walled City from the out side, you would see just cheap usual concrete building. Most of them were builded with concrete. However, they show us really queer circumstances. Tiny hairs wriggled and rustled. It just seemed like something tremendously complecated creature. Where these images were coming from? Small pencil style buildings with 10 to 14 floors, and its sizes were 20 to 1000 cubic meter. Most of them were under 100 cubic meter, and 300 to 500 buildings were connected together. They were extended or shared their walls illigaly, so it was pretty hard to find the joints. And, the fact that they had very delicate height differences was one another reason also. In the land area of 2.6ha, over 300 buildings ware builded on north-south slope has 4 floors level difference. Whole stracture had totally different two stratums. The lower stratum was seemed like just a maze. Sometimes locate of staires changed floor by floor. Sometimes the building had extended or connected to next building illegaly. Even it was pretty hard to come back to the entrance, sometimes. The upper stratum was pretty simple but ,still, sometimes they made us confused. The most of buildings were builded with steel based Rahmen structure. Outside view from the south side Outside view of the west side edge Compare with the Kowloon Walled City to Tokyo Dome Kowloon Walled City was almost same size with Tokyo Dome. Kowloon Walled City had about 50,000 population. Tokyo Dome has 56,000 seats. Side View Section View From "The Kowloon Walled City Illustration" Population : 34,000 House holds : 10,200 Rooms : 8,800 Manufactures : 570 Shops : 148 Dentists : 87 Doctors : 63 others : 177 Section VIew We sat pictures of the rooms into an actual surveyed section view. The colorful rooms which are never expected from the outside are in a row with mosic-like form. However, the time when people were living, lots of the living goods were filled and never be noticed it. By the way, there is an interesting story about another Kowloon walled City called 'Tsim Sha Tsui' I had a room on the Northan Road. The room was really small and there had no windows. And, all its walls were painted in pink. There was only a fluorescent lamp but it was so bright. Maybe, not only in the Kowloon Walled City but also in, high density city, Hong Kong, they can't expect natural sun light, so they put some ideas to the walls. There were the other styles like, gaudy blue or pink walls, variety of tiles covered on the walls, a gorgeous down light was hang from the ceiling, put the whole picture of somewhere's scenery and so on. There were small cosmos inside and they were never be noticed from the outside. There is no correct record at all but, about 50 thousand population lived in the city. All area space was only 2.6ha, 1.92 people were living on 1 square meter. The survey listed avobe are surveyed by Hong Kong goverment after the evacuation. Electricity Most of all the buildings had connected the electricity from public electric company. Municiple Services There was a public water supply and some houses were directly connected with the water hose. Most of them dug a well and pumped up to floors. And, also there were deliverly service for drinking water. There were not organized drainage, they had only ditch and it was always smelly. Trash Trash were hauled away anywhere. Trash were piled up on layed pipe and prevent the sun light. Community organization made the garbage dump but throwing away the trash was one culture of Hong Kong already and the Walled City was exaggerated for it. There was a temple called "TIN HAU Temple". The residents put a net and ried to prevent the trash. But, trash were piled and complately shut off the sun shine. Postal Service Every buiding had a post at the entrance. 3 postmen were on duty on the City. New post man needed 3 months to be used to location. Streets The city had a main street ran through east-west which called "LUNG CHUN BACK Road", two main streets ran through south and north which called "LUNG SHING Road", "KWONG MING Street", "LO YAN Street", "TAI CHANG Street", and "SAI SHING Road". The widest part was about 2m, the narrowest part was under 1m. Public Facilities The city had 3 temples, one public water supply, two meeting places, and also the kindergarten. One meeting place had foreign language school or table tennis tournaments. Explore their a brothel legends The Kowloon Walled City was totally non- goverment area. In 1842, Opium War had ended and Hong Kong island was a cessioned to Great Britain; then, in the followed war called Arrow War, Kowloon peninsula was a cessioned. After that period, Hong Kong was taken by Great Britain with 99 years limit. However, China had been insisting their sovereignty all through the years, the Kowloon Walled City was left in non-goverment area. In 1949, The Republic of China was established and a lot of people immgranted. In 1951, the Kowloon Walled City had a big fire and it burned half of the public houses. Then, higher buildings were started to be builded and the, labyrinth, Kowloon Walled City had completioned by 1970's. In the late 1950's, the Kowloon Walled City was kept in bad mood. There were lots of prostitute, people smoked Opiums, and gambles in the streets. Many residence organized the self diffensive forces and made their neighbors better. Some people say the Kowloon Walled City was unlawfull area, but not the whole place were so. Yet, people might treat the Walled City as a scapegoat of Hong Kong. "Kowloon Walled City" was located in north west of the Kai Tac Air Port and was high density gathered living space. The land was only 2.6ha; at least, over 300 buildings were packed in there. [ Genesis Term ] In 1840, the war called "Opium war"" had ended. The Great Britain goverment required to hand over the Kowloon peninsula to China after words. Although, only the Kowloon Walled City was excluded from that hand over commit. After that period, China had been insistanced its sovereignty of the Kowloon Walled City, but it was existed as non-goverment area even if it's located inside of Hong Kong. [ The First Term ] With their historical background, in 1949 Republic of China was established and lots of people immigranted into the Kowloon. Then, higher buildings were started to be coustructed and also dark side of 'Kowloon Walled City' was born. Even some people said 'Onece you enter, never you'll exit'. [ The Golden Term ] Late 70's to early 80's, about 50 thousand people ware living and over 500 small manufactures ware existed in the Kowloon Walled City. And, 90% of fish cakes which used in the Hong Kong were made in the Kowloon Walled City, even some decent hotels were used them. Further more, 87 dentists and 63 doctors lived in the Walled City. All they had educated in China in 50's with the Russian education. Because they couldn't have a medical licence in Hong Kong, they could start business only in the Walled City. Since they lived in black world, sometimes, they gave their hands to black market. [ The Declining Term ] In 1987, Hong Kong goverment agreed to the hand over commit, forced evacuation for residence had started in the end of 1991. In July of 1992, all of the evacuation was finished. [ Presence ] In 1993, the torn down had started and the place have changed to the authentic Chinese park now. What was the item which had 90% share? There were over 500 small manufactures in the Kowloon Walled City. They were producing bags, shoes, adult goods, sweets, hand crafted goods, and so on. The most popular product was food stuffs. For the fish cakes, 90% of fish cakes which eaten in Hong Kong were produced in the Kowloon Walled City. The reasons why there were a lots of food manufactures gathered in the City are, the house rents were cheap, and there was no tax, the health law wasn't effected inside of the City. However, they were not really organized and they were located in disperse. The symbol of live energy Most of the apartments had wire caged balcony. We named it "Bird Cage". We could see on the street in Hong Kong as well, but it's illegal. Sometimes the bird cage fall down and resident get hurt. They are regulated strictly and removed already. But, the bird cage contains full of wit for living of Hong Kong residents. The out-look of the Kowloon Walled City with bird cage was filled with live energy. If we could removed our bias images, we would see their real life in the bird cage. This 'Expedition Story' is the whole story of explore of the Kowloon Walled City.
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