Diagram analysis to the sustainable urban form in vertical city of Hong Kong

Abstract

Obviously the technique aspects have been the centre of research about sustainable urban development, but little has been explored related to morphology yet. This study tries to investigate the relationship between the sustainable urban development and urban morphology and then examines how to apply the morphological methods to represent the sustainable urban form in the “vertical city” of Hong Kong. The objective of this paper is introducing a research plan and a few pilot studies. This paper compares the relative diagrams of well-known sustainable buildings or urban blocks in order to find the typical characteristics of sustainable urban form represented effectively by diagrams. Under the SPeAR assessment system, this research tries to explore a simple sustainable assessment diagram system to urban form. Several high-rise urban complexes in Hong Kong with distinct functions are chosen to examine concerning the diagrams. This study is also a pilot study seeking to find new expressions related to morphological methods to describe the buildings and urban blocks.