Type
Research – Thesis

Author
To Ching Hing Derrick

Year
2011

Movements within a city can fundamentally be isolated and categorized into Horizontal and Vertical systems, although they are often conceived as a united one.

“Impatience”
Time is extremely valuable in city life. While people are put in a “waiting” situation, it may often escalate into unnecessary threats and worries of delay; at that point, not only is “time” lost, but also patience and positive psychological status.

“Value of Time”
In a “Travel Characteristics Survey” affiliated to the Hong Kong Population Census 2002, office workers were asked how much they are willing to pay in exchange for travelling time to work. The result is HK$ 1.29 /min for each household member with household monthly income greater than HK$40,000.

“Impatience Unleashed”
An experiment to streamline and relay the Horizontal traffic and the Vertical traffic of the building CORE. The “Value of Impatience” is completely unleashed and the core and the building is a self-generative monster that shapes itself from the innermost to the outermost. Every step is brutally and critically deduced by its previous step, giving the very first priority to minimize travel time and waiting
time.

“The Shape of Time”
The core is driven by minimal traffic duration, and as its logical extension, the building boundary is hence, the direct tangible manifest of the shape of time of its own traffic within; while the core solidify itself as the sculptural built of speed, capacity, acceleration and flow. Everybody gets to his desk within the same, minimized, controllable, deducible duration. Time is to be tamed.