- Title
- West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong: an exemplar case of sustainable design and scientific feng shui applications for high-speed rail stations
- Creator
- Mak, Michael Y.; Hui, Yann
- Relation
- Academic Journal of Feng Shui Vol. 2, Issue 1
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle, School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This paper focuses on the West Kowloon Station (WKS) located in Hong Kong, designed by Andrew Bromberg (Aedas), explaining key design features within the context of sustainable design and comparing these to Feng Shui principles and practices that are embedded deeply in Hong Kong's Chinese community. Feng Shui is the traditional wisdom of the Chinese art of building design. Its central aim is to ensure that buildings are in harmony with their surrounding environment. The WKS was selected due to its significance as one of the world's largest underground high-speed rail (HSR) station. The building employs key design features as drivers for increased efficiency, reduced energy consumption and betterment of the environment (physically and socially). Analysis of the design features is imperative within the context of sustainable design and scientific Feng Shui principles. Firstly the WKS is introduced and the project background summarized. Secondly five main sustainable design principles are defined and analysed, followed by the definition of five fundamental scientific Feng Shui principles. Hence, key WKS sustainable design features are identified and then analysed holistically within the realms of sustainable designs and scientific Feng Shui principles. The paper concludes that, most of the key WKS sustainable design features satisfy the Feng Shui concepts.
- Subject
- West Kowloon Station; high-speed rail station; sustainable design; feng shui
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1406009
- Identifier
- uon:35578
- Identifier
- ISSN:2200-8379
- Language
- eng
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