Hello Laneway Design Statement

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Design Statement

Public space is our connective tissue, the public realm exists in the form of streets, parks, squares, highways; it is platforms for our necessary, optional, and social activities. Public space is defined as a tangible space, in which, people often to visualize it as an open space, soft or green surface, or a space that surrounded by the multitude; like parks and squares.
There is a distinction between public and private space, however on certain sites, like that of the laneway, this distinction is blurred and rendered ambiguous. ‘Hello Laneway’ comes to invite everyone to use the laneway. On the form of this ‘non-places’ or overlooked places, the project presents as a spatial intervention and reclamations that open up for the public to use and utilize the laneway differently. The project aims at the development of opening up public space and acting as catalysts for social exchanges. …show more content…

The observation has led to traverse and investigate the public space patterns of Sydney Central Business District (CBD) area. According to Australian Census in 2011, the CBD recorded a population of 14,308 in the area of 2.8/km2 and with the population density of 5,110/km. The CBD has become our city center and meeting grounds. Nevertheless, the role of city space has transformed into an area of densely concentrated with skyscrapers and buildings. By putting a low priority on public life and pedestrians, the cities are filled with the inhumanity of urban architecture that is structurally gigantic, flat, and distant realm of vision. This can be understood as the loss connection and neglect with the language of the human body – the spaces that lost its tangibility, measures, and details crafted for the human