OMA's plan for Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District (Director's Cut)

"Culture is work, not just passive consumption." -- Rem Koolhaas

Project for a new dimension

東藝、西演、中城墟，
阡陌、交通、人才聚。

Situated in a lush park (30 Hectare) with vast open spaces offering multiple freedoms in the heart of HK, OMA creates an authentic environment of three "village" communities. Taking Hong Kong's vibrant street life as its point of departure, OMA's plan mixes fun and seriousness, tradition and experiment to add a new (cultural) dimension that is Cantonese and cosmopolitan at the same time to the city.

Park of the New Horizon
The park offers, above all, a space liberated from the commercial, and also from the wealth of interdictions that inhibit Hong Kong's open space. By connecting to Kowloon Park, WKCD's Park of the New Horizon will be the largest park of the city. Inspired by Hong Kong rice fi elds and fi shponds, the park features native vegetation into fields connected by paths for pedestrians and cyclists. Meadows, forest gardens, orchards, ponds and even communal urban farming -- all connected by paths for pedestrians and cyclists. The park's bio diversity reflects the diverse mix of people in Hong Kong and offers activities for everyone.

The Village
A village is a single organism, consisting of many intimately interlocking parts that work in unison. A village has always been the most sustainable form of human co-existence: it has survived not through new technology or high tech materials, but through the interaction of population and scale, the economy of communication, ease of adjustment, and contact with the nature that surrounds it. The village enables us to absorb the almost overwhelming scale of West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD)'s ambition into manageable portions that resist delusions of grandeur and neutralise the threat of an alienating confrontation between the "old" and "new" Kowloon.

© OMA; Courtesy of yU+co lab

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