Huge cities are becoming multi-layers, with footbridges built above the ground and also with their underground counterparts. Governments or commercial organizations promote it to enable a multi-functional space or making more commercial incomes, however, the function is never locked or unchanged as how it was designed and expected, but keep changing.
They are infrastructures as the designers believed, but meanwhile re-defined as other “places” by residents, tourists, or even by fictional stories including films. As architectures, it has to have its public features and its meanings and usages are difficult to be precisely expected. Like the bus terminal in Lam Tim Station in Hong Kong, the spectacular spiral starcases designed for bus-interchanging, could be the place for good action movie events if possible, thanked to its dual-layer horizontal and complex vertical structures.
Modern technologies enables cities to expand and extends its existence into the sky and the inner ground. It’s a complex process and must have intimate relations with how the public use the space to make it a place.
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Yes, it is very true that a lot of buildings/ infrastructures are built naively without much analysis on its impact. In the end, they bring a lot of shock to the city space. Curious to know how the Lam Tin Bus Terminal will look like on film to bring shock to its audience.