Pohan Chu

Farewell Ex-Neighbourhood

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 and the increasing scale of the infection, citizens have been forced to shift their daily living patterns and to live in the limited scale and dimensions of their neighbourhoods. Many services, entertainment, and social venues are no longer accessible. Social distancing even leaves shopping on high streets in a suburb daunting. What if these changes become long-term or permanent? The neighbourhood unit as originally proposed by Clarence Perry is being contested. This is an opportunity to encourage people to explore and to adapt new living patterns and spaces presented in their closest public spaces -a new neighbourhood block. I proposed a socio-resilient hub which repositions the neighbourhood block as a Living Unit, which offers a mix-used block development that brings more diverse experiences, services and multi-dimensional living space back to neighbours.