Design Educates Awards 2022

Based on research, 80% of food in Hong Kong is imported which has implications for the associated environmental footprint. Therefore, the project proposes a design that encourages the community to develop a local sustainable system within residential buildings in Hong Kong. Therefore, we need to build a local sustainable development system. We should start with agriculture and energy ways to get our autonomy back. Moreover, along with the change in the composition of domestic households, reacting that small households had become increasingly common. So the rebuilding of public housing that is shared, eco-friendly, and healthy, that will be happening in further which like small groups of families to become small villages. To support the autonomy of regional food supply, agricultural elements and alternative ways of energy production are created and integrated within the existing fabric of public housing. In addition, spatial compositions of domestic households are reconfigured and designed to facilitate a communal collaboration system for the increase of small households in dwellings. The cycle of food production is linked with the daily routine of the residents creating an interdependent living system. Regarding the farming and Cooking system, pink-light grow lamps in the building can provide more hours of lighting for the plant. In the morning, there is a secret garden. At night, solar energy will automatically turn on all the pink light which is like a pink jungle inside the city. In addition, in the community garden, vegetables are planted by roof-top, kitchen, and facade. For example, from the first floor to the sixth floor, only herbs and onions are For from vegetables be grown, etc. Illustrated in a narrative way, the design tells the story of a new communal engagement and the longing for a harmonious residential community working together to build a sustainable environment for the future.