"The renovation of Chungking Mansions" by Chenkai Shao 
  

Chungking Mansion is located in Hong Kong. It has brought together traders and asylum-seekers from South Asia and Africa, temporary workers from India and cash-strapped tourists from all over the world. It is a building that represents "low-end globalisation".

Marginalization, cultural collisions, illegal activities, fire problems... These problems have complicated and frayed the small society of Chungking Mansions. At the same time, these problems are closely related to each other. Fire seems to be the embodiment of other problems, and is the only one that can cause substantial damage to the structure and space of Chungking Mansions.

Therefore, I conducted a study on this issue. On the premise of advocating the exploration of residents' spontaneity and the use of low-technology construction, I rebuilt the building on the fire problem and tried to build a new life style for residents.