[image from architecture for guerrillas]
I hardly blog about architecture, but this illustration is too incredible!
Prior to its 1993 demolition, a Japanese research team mapped the interior of the Kowloon walled city settlement. The team produced colorful section diagrams showing both the social and sectional topography. The tangle of activities and spaces show an existence of incredible complexity and spatial relationship to the inhabitants surroundings.
Kowloon walled city was torn down in 1993.
Click on image for enlarged view!
The result of the research is a beautiful book
Large Illustrated Kowloon City (大図解九龍城)
Authors
Kowloon City Expedition
Kazumi Terasawa (寺澤一美)
H. Kani (可児弘明)
[images from zoohaus and visual news]
[text and information from visual news, architecture for guerrilla and zoohaus]
3 comments:
Inspiring pictures! I love architechture
I really wish I could get a copy of this book
The Kowloon city refereed here is of Hong King? Thanks for sharing nice illustration.
- Herman Swan
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