CPD Guided Tour:  POINT–LINE Village Strategy: from Kuk Po Common to Ruin Garden

Date: 31 May 2025 (Saturday)

Time: 1:30pm - 6:30pm

Admission: $250 / Member ; $350 / Non-member

Quota: 30 Persons

Tour Guide:

Weijen WANG

Project Director

Professor, HKU Architecture

FHKIA, AIA

CCAU Kuk Po Vision Project Team:

Ziming SU

Kuk Po Vision Project Coordinator, CCAU HKU

Moderator:

Anne ZHANG

Member, HKIA CPD Office

Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/MnDRR3zqN8

Situated amidst the rural landscape of Sha Tau Kok, Kuk Po Village preserves large area of mangrove wetlands and traditional Hakka settlements. The HKU’s design team, through the support of CCFS funding scheme, embarks research, conservation, and revitalization efforts in Kuk Po, through an acupuncture strategy via a series of micro-renewal projects.

The project highlights the design strategy of Point - Line – Network in a Hakka village in rural Hong Kong, adopting measures of Acupuncture, Adaptive-reuse and Addition. By visiting a series catalyst architecture from Kuk Po Village, the tour demonstrates different methods of design interventions for Village Common, Plaza, Eco-toilet and the Ruin Garden, responding to their specific design challenges and contexts. Parallelly, the project illustrates the significance of research and building processes in design, addressing type, fabric, tectonic and tactile, as well as community and their social processes. The project integrates architecture with landscape, planning and construction, sharing design visions with communities and exploring design strategies for rural villages.

Participants are required to apply permit by themselves to enter Sha Tau Kok Area (Application Link). The permit is free of charge and requires at least three full working days (excluding Saturday, Sunday and general holiday) for processing.

Register now to save your place: https://forms.office.com/r/MnDRR3zqN8