The Reterritorialization of Chung Ying Street
CHUNG YING STREET
LOCATION
Shenzhen - Hong Kong, China
YEAR
2021
PROGRAM
A Shared 'Border' Revitalization
This project reveals the widening social gap between two places due to various factors that have intensified social contradictions. While one place has more favorable conditions for creating social dialogues to ease conflicts, the current state of the streets makes it unlikely for them to regain their vibrancy of the past. To adapt to future business development, the site of Chung Ying Street will become crucial in facilitating close contact between people, fostering cultural exchanges, promoting economic trade, and implementing other measures.
After the implementation of China's 13th Five-Year Plan, the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was introduced. Although Chung Ying Street has not received much attention, the area has special values and has not been excessively developed. Additionally, the nearby entreport and high-tech logistics industry hold significant potential for creating offshore-related business opportunities in the region. Offshore trading enterprises can provide Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a range of services, including upstream, midstream, and downstream trading, as well as settlement and other related services. Furthermore, there is a growing demand for resale of goods, offshore production, offshore currency settlement, and other related businesses.
Therefore, based on current issues and supporting conditions on both sides, this project has conceived a border cooperation framework for the region. The primary objective of this framework is to serve as a "social coagulator" for facilitating economic and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It not only promotes border cultural exchanges and economic development in both places but also aims to alleviate the friction between capitalist and socialist societies.
In terms of spatial organization, the proposed structure defines a series of differences between horizontal and vertical systems. It compiles corresponding activity spaces, paths, and transportation networks that extend along the porous borders, forming an evolving structure.
After the implementation of China's 13th Five-Year Plan, the development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area was introduced. Although Chung Ying Street has not received much attention, the area has special values and has not been excessively developed. Additionally, the nearby entreport and high-tech logistics industry hold significant potential for creating offshore-related business opportunities in the region. Offshore trading enterprises can provide Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a range of services, including upstream, midstream, and downstream trading, as well as settlement and other related services. Furthermore, there is a growing demand for resale of goods, offshore production, offshore currency settlement, and other related businesses.
Therefore, based on current issues and supporting conditions on both sides, this project has conceived a border cooperation framework for the region. The primary objective of this framework is to serve as a "social coagulator" for facilitating economic and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It not only promotes border cultural exchanges and economic development in both places but also aims to alleviate the friction between capitalist and socialist societies.
In terms of spatial organization, the proposed structure defines a series of differences between horizontal and vertical systems. It compiles corresponding activity spaces, paths, and transportation networks that extend along the porous borders, forming an evolving structure.
BACKGROUND
The border was created in the late 19th century between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in southern China. It is the only place where the two cities are connected by land. Over the course of more than a century, it gradually evolved into a street named Chung Ying Street. The street has a long and heavy history, which has been compared to the Berlin Wall and the Korean Armistice Front. For a long time, the border was actually watered down by concessions on both sides. The development of Chung Ying Street has stagnated in recent years--it is now forgotten--it thus gives more potential and possibilities to break boundaries than what used to be called the "Berlin Wall of the East". No matter whether it has been in conflict or cooperation in the past, its special location still has its unique value and unlimited possibilities today.