astronomy

Jockey Club Innovation Tower

Jockey Club Innovation Tower is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jockey Club Innovation Tower rather than just read about it. In short: Jockey Club Innovation Tower is a building of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University located on Chatham Road South in Hung Hom district, Kowloon. It was designed by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.

Key takeaways

Jockey Club Innovation Tower belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jockey Club Innovation Tower to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jockey Club Innovation Tower from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jockey Club Innovation Tower is a building of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University located on Chatham Road South in Hung Hom district, Kowloon. It was designed by Pritzker-prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid. This building is her first permanent work in Hong Kong. Originally expected to be completed by the end of 2011, it was not finished until 2014.

Aesthetics Zaha Hadid's firm won the competition to design the building in 2007. The competition brief called for "a beacon structure symbolising and driving the development of Hong Kong as a design hub in Asia." She and her team took as their guiding principle the "collateral flexibility" between the departments to be housed in the building. Their solution was to "dissolve ... the classic typography of tower and podium to create a seamlessly fluid new structure ... creat[ing] a building which is inherently organised and understood to visitors from the point of entry." Athletic fields surrounding the building were razed to create a new surrounding landscape. The main pedestrian entrance was placed at podium level, as with the other buildings on campus. A long pathway from nearby Suen Chi Sun Memorial Square to an open foyer creates a focal point, where the building space opens to shops, a cafeteria, museum, and exhibition area.

Location and size The tower is located at the northwestern tip of the university campus. Upon completion, the tower provided some 12,000 square metres (130,000 sq ft) of net operational floor area and is able to accommodate about 1,800 staff and students.

Academic uses The tower houses the School of Design (SD) and supports the development of its specialisations, namely Environmental Design, Industrial and Product Design, Visual Communication, Advertising as well as Digital Design.

Funding In July 2011, the Hong Kong Jockey Club approved funding of HK$249 million for the Innovation Tower. The tower was therefore renamed Jockey Club Innovation Tower.

References

External links

Official website Zaha Hadid Architects – Innovation Tower

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jockey Club Innovation Tower

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jockey Club Innovation Tower claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jockey Club Innovation Tower before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jockey Club Innovation Tower ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jockey Club Innovation Tower

In research: Jockey Club Innovation Tower appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jockey Club Innovation Tower in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jockey Club Innovation Tower is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 2013, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Neo-futurist architecture, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jockey Club Innovation Tower outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Jockey Club Innovation Tower in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Jockey Club Innovation Tower means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Jockey Club Innovation Tower out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Jockey Club Innovation Tower in simple terms?

Why does Jockey Club Innovation Tower matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jockey Club Innovation Tower?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jockey Club Innovation Tower.