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作為全球土地價值最高地區之一的香港，其規劃和建設已達到驚人的密度。然而，在封閉的建築群之間，在順暢的交通動脈之下，在摩肩接踵的高層建築之後，存在著一種截然不同的城市形態。被稱為「休憩處」的小型公園，是對宏大香港城市空間的微型干預，講述了一個關於這座城市的不同故事。被當地人叫做「三角屎坑」的休憩處，其功能正如其名稱所指，是坐下和休息的地方。這些位置隱秘且常被人忽視的小型公園，因數量繁多且無處不在而具有鮮為人知的巨大影響，以及作為這座高密度城市景觀網絡的潛力。
分佈在香港城區各處的超過五百個休憩處和休憩花園，是這座城市正規休憩用地設施網絡中尺度最小的組成部分。本項目對這些未被充分研究和重視的開放空間進行批判性探索，以揭示其對於整個城市系統的現有和潛在利益。例如，這些空間如何與香港居民的日常公共生活融為一體？這些空間如何與城市的水文和生態環境相互作用？究竟是哪些過程激發或創造了這些空間？本項目對這些問題的提出和回應，將使我們更好地理解香港的規劃政策如何與人們的日常生活互動，並為未來開放空間政策的製定提供參考。最終，本研究旨在為有關高密度城市環境中公共空間的形式、功能、分佈和可達性的更大範圍的討論做出貢獻。
「之間、之下、之後：香港微型都市公園研究」在大學教育資助委員會(教資會) 的支持下開展（項目編號 HKU 27609420），並建立於由香港大學園境建築學部支持開展的名為「間隙香港」項目的早期研究之上。本網站所呈現內容全部於教資會項目週期內完成（6.2020–4.2023）。
Hong Kong, with some of the most valuable land in the world, is planned and built out to shockingly high densities. Yet between introverted complexes, below the smooth-flowing arterials and behind adjoining high-rise buildings, a different urban form emerges: small public parks called “Sitting-out Areas,” miniature interventions in an otherwise monumental Hong Kong, reflecting another narrative for the city. Referred to locally as "saam-kok-see-hang", literally a “three-cornered shit pit,” most Sitting-out Areas feature little more than, eponymously, a place to sit and rest. Hard-to-find and overlooked, their ubiquity gives them an outsized impact and suggests a latent potential to operate as a landscape network.
More than five hundred Sitting-out Areas along with the allied Rest Gardens comprise the smallest features in the city’s formal network of public open space amenities. This project carries out a critical exploration of these understudied and undervalued open spaces to reveal their existing and potential benefits for the overall urban system. How do these spaces integrate with the daily public life of Hong Kong residents? How do these spaces interact with the hydrological and ecological environment of the city? What processes motivate or create these spaces? Collectively, these questions paint a bigger picture of how Hong Kong’s planning policies interface with the daily lives of people and inform future open space policies. Ultimately, this research contributes to a larger debate on the form, function, distribution and accessibility of public space in high-density urban settings.
“Between, Below, Behind: An ontology of small urban spaces in Hong Kong” is supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Project No. HKU 27609420). This project builds upon and further develops an earlier research project carried out under the title “Interstitial Hong Kong” supported by the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Contents showcased on this website were completed within the RGC-funded project period (6.2020–4.2023).