Dis-a-pier | Re-a-pier is a project which engages with the past, present, and future of Hong Kong’s Queen’s Pier and proposes multiple and partial reconstruction of the pier over time using different fragments of its original building materials. Demolished in 2007 in Edinburgh Square, Central, the government salvaged and stored most of Queen’s Pier’s dismantled parts in the Lantau Island depot. This project examines the pier’s multiple meanings, and then proposes to assemble the original fragments into different structures with distinctive programs in three sites around the city as a new way of dealing with Hong Kong people’s collective memory and injecting new life to the pier. In short, between the total disappearance and reconstructed cliché, this thesis proposes an alternative: turning the dismantled Queen’s Pier into a constant process of re-appearing, in each round to retell and re-make history, to re-live in the new reality.

To demonstrate the new possibilities of this disappeared architecture , the proposition is to reconstruct Queen’s Pier in three sites namely Edinburgh Square Urban Festival- to reactivate the colonial civic hub; Tamar Park Harbour Pool, to extend the public ground into water, and the Lok Ma Chau Border Theatre as a symbol of the shift in political power. In short, between the total disappearance and reconstructed cliché, this thesis proposes an alternative: turning the dismantled Queen’s Pier into a constant process of re-appearing, in each round to retell and re-make history, to re-live in the new reality.