Video: Vertical City: Hong Kong in the Architecture of Density photo cycle by Michael Wolf
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Shot series "Architecture of density" German photographer Michael Wolf is entirely dedicated to the housing estates of Hong Kong. The patterns formed by the rhythmically repeating buildings and their elements did not arise from the application of any effects. From the first to the last snapshot of this fantastic series, quite ordinary houses, by their standards, are looking at us.
Michael Wolff became famous as a methodical researcher of the life of Asian megacities, where he spent more than eight years of his life. His other series focuses on working conditions in Chinese toy factories, Tokyo subway passengers, and the lives of Hong Kong families. The sheer social connotation of these photographs does not overshadow their aesthetic value. As a result, works Michael are regularly exhibited in prestigious galleries around the world.
Features of urban planning, which we see in the photographs of the series "Architecture of density" is easiest to explain with numbers. In terms of the number of skyscrapers, Hong Kong is far ahead of New York, the recognized "city of skyscrapers": 6588 buildings against 5818. The total area of Hong Kong is 1.108 square kilometers. For historical, political and geographic reasons, only one fourth of this land is used. And only 6.8% of them are allocated for residential development, which is 72 square kilometers.
Most of Hong Kong's 7 million people live in high-rise buildings on this small piece of land. Half of the residents cannot afford to buy their own homes: real estate here is one of the most expensive in the world, so many are forced to huddle in rented apartments all their lives. However, such living conditions still belong to the category of luxurious: in some sleeping areas of Hong Kong, 12 square meters of personal space is sometimes shared by a whole family. But the worst thing is not this at all, but the neighborhoods in which people live in dog cages.
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