Like one giant hamster house, people move through tubes and passages from one end of the city to the other, without ever going outside.

The city of Hong Kong is a testament to human concentration, built on the side of a steep mountain, overlooking the water that separates it from the mainland. The passages and people-moving escalators extend from the maze of malls that exist below the towering skyscrapers at the bottom of the hill, into the city above, creating an eerie symbiotic experience between city and mall. Like one giant hamster house, people move through tubes and passages from one end of the city to the other, without ever going outside.  You could almost imagine people on giant treadmills, running fast, but never going anywhere, with a wad of cash dangling in front of them as motivation, but just out of reach.

But if the is one thing taller than the skyscrapers in Hong Kong, it is the hills, which are all the more accessible due to the fact that there are escalators that carry you almost to the top. As you climb the steep streets and stairways that extend past the escalators, you begin to emerge from the concrete jungle into the hill top natural jungle above. Which is very overwhelming and quite vast, making you wonder why the masses live so concentrated down below, when there is so much space on the top. Well I guess when one gets accustomed to escalators all the time, why build a house where you would have to walk up a steep hill to get to it?