理性教育:香港大学园境建筑学部基础课程之香港生态足迹的背景分析

Teaching Rationale:Contextualizing the Ecological Footprint in Hong Kong at Division of Landscape Architecture, the University of Hong Kong

城市的高度密集化发展需要从其腹地汲取资源来维持自身的日常运转,这些资源通过基础设施不断地出入城市的边界。从这个意义上来讲,城市的生态足迹已远远超出其物理边界,而且城市越密集,其生态足迹与城市地域范围之间的对比就越明显。"香港生态足迹的背景分析"源于香港大学园境建筑学部开设的一门基础核心课程——ARCH1028可持续发展和建筑环境,该课程鼓励建筑环境专业的本科生对密集城市背景下的城市可持续性问题进行定义、探讨和思考。本文陈述了该课程的教学、学生研究和背景分析等方法,选择了5个城市赖以生存的决定性因素(能源、食物、人口、水和废弃物),对8个具有代表性的香港城市社区(金钟、鸭脷洲、红磡、九龙湾、旺角、沙田、天水围及油塘)进行了调查,并展示了所取得的部分成果。"香港生态足迹的背景分析"项目还入选了2013年深圳·香港城市\建筑双城双年展。

The compacted and concentrated city area and its built environment draw upon an ever widening hinterland for its life support. These resources continuously pulse in and out of the city's physical boundary through constructed infrastructures. In this sense, the reach of the city is far beyond its physical location, moreover, the denser the city, the starker the contrast is between its built form and the geographical extent of its depending territory. 'Contextualizing the Ecological Footprint in Hong Kong' is an educational research project in which first-year undergraduates of the built environment at the University of Hong Kong(ARCH1028 Sustainability and the Built Environment) were encouraged to define and explore issues of sustainability within dense urban settings, and to speculate on the concept of sustainable issues. This paper presents the teaching approach, student research and contextual analysis of five decisive factors that the city relies upon for its life support(energy, food, people, water and waste), across eight different urban neighborhoods(Admiralty, Ap Lei Chau, Hung Hom, Kowloon Bay, Mong Kok, Sha Tin, Tin Shui Wai and Yau Tong) in Hong Kong. 'Contextualizing the Ecological Footprint in Hong Kong' also enrolled 2013 BiCity Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture(Hong Kong).