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Urban Park Design in Macau

It's s 3 weeks tender I took park in back to Feb. which was the first month of my internship and also my first project in Macau. An existing park is required to demolish and redesign in order to build a car park underneath. The location of the park is just opposite to the famous Hotel Lisboa and in the future hyper casino district (3 casinos are under construction now around the site, and this is one of the reason why a underground car park is needed) The park is a sanctuary, a meditation space, a space surrounded by the casinos physically but spatially away from it...its a park, but also an island..an island in between the sea of gambling...an island for the parent to dump their children and go to make big money themselves and come back realizing they don't even have enough money to pay for the car parking renting..:P The park is not realized but it raised a very interesting issue for me to further investigate in the future which is the relationship between the green public domain and the resplendent gambling private sector and the change of living pattern of Macau citizen under the big wave of the gambling industry....

posted by ryxx @ 1:47 AM