HKU Landscape Yearbook 2023-2024

DIVISION OF LANDSCAPE

ARCHITECTURE 2023 - 24

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Exploring native woodland regeneration of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Table of Contents

DESIGN STUDIOS

Master

Landscape Systems

Landscape

Landscape Technology

Landscape Technology

Landscape Technology

Landscape

Master

Studio:

Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVISION

學部介紹

VALIN Ivan

Head, Division of Landscape Architecture

主任, 園境建築學部

This 2023-2024 Annual for the Division of Landscape Architecture showcases the courses and student work within our five programs: the Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies (BA(LS)), the Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (PDLA), the Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), the MSc in Conservation (MSc(Cons)), and the MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design (MSc(SED)). After producing ten-years’ worth of annuals in the Division, we are taking a slightly different course for our 11th edition to focus less on individual programs or courses, and more on the work done in our studios, offices, labs, classrooms, field trips, and international study tours.

Each of the Division’s five programs holds a distinct educational mission and is led by skilled and dynamic staff members whose knowledge and expertise are rooted in world-class research and innovative design practices. Our three landscape architecture programs—the BA(LS), PDLA, and MLA—equip students with a broad and flexible range of skills, enabling them to be the creative and technical leaders shaping our urban and natural environments toward more sustainable, resilient and inclusive futures. Our new one-year Master of Science programs, the MSc(Cons) and MSc(SED), are progressively interdisciplinary, engaging with emerging research and practices in planning, policy, and advocacy; data and digital tools; and material, historical, and cultural networks.

2023-2024年度園境建築學部年鑑展示了我們五個課程 中的科目與學生作品，包括園境學文學士(BA(LS))、園境 深造文憑 (PDLA)、園境碩士 (MLA)、建築文物保護理科碩 士 (MSc(Cons)) 和可持續環境設計理科碩士 (MSc(SED))

。經過十年的年鑑製作，今年的第十一版年鑑我們採取 不同的方向，重點不再放在各個課程或科目，而是更注 重我們在設計工作室、辦公室、實驗室、教室、實地考察 和國際學習旅行中的學術成果。

學部內的五個課程各自擁有其獨特的教育使命，並由一 支學識淵博且充滿活力的教職團隊領導。他們的知識與 專業源自世界級的研究與創新設計實踐。我們的三個園 境建築課程——BA(LS)、PDLA和MLA——賦予學生廣泛 且靈活的技能，使他們能夠成為創意和技術的領導者， 並塑造我們的城市和自然環境，邁向更加可持續、具韌 性和包容性的未來。而我們新推出的兩個一年制理科碩 士課程——MSc(Cons)和MSc(SED)——則是前瞻性地以 跨學科為基礎，積極探索規劃、政策和倡導的最新研究 與實踐；數據和數字工具的應用；以及材料、歷史和文化 網絡的連接。

Exploring native woodland regeneration of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Master of Landscape Architecture

MLA

園境碩士課程

ECHEVERRI Natalia

Senior Lecturer, Program Director (MLA/PDLA), Division of Landscape Architecture

高級講師, 園境碩士/園境深造文憑課程主任,

園境建築學部

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is a two-year postgraduate degree accredited by the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. The program is committed to teaching landscape architecture as an interdisciplinary field, integrating core competencies with developments in planning, conservation, urbanism, and ecology. The curriculum tackles critical social, economic, and environmental issues within Southeast Asia and the Greater Bay Area, addressing both urban and rural contexts to solve density and development challenges.

The course structure is divided into tracks, including design studios, history and theory, technology, and media. The initial studio examines landscape systems and public realm along Hong Kong’s coastal trail, while subsequent studios in Ho Chi Minh City and Chiang Mai involve fieldwork and community engagement. Advanced studios explore biodiversity, tectonics, rapid urbanization, and infrastructure. The program culminates with an individual thesis, covering a broad array of subjects such as environmental conflicts and advocacy, landscape conservation and heritage, and the exploration of landscape design and planning practices across the region.

園境碩士課程(MLA)是一個為期兩年的研究生學位，並 獲得香港園境建築師學會認可。該課程致力於將園境建

築視為一個跨學科的領域，將核心能力與規劃、保育、城 市主義和生態學的發展相結合。課程內容針對東南亞及 大灣區的重大社會、經濟和環境議題，涵蓋城市和鄉村 背景，以解決人口密度和發展的挑戰。

課程結構分為不同的專業方向，包括設計工作室、歷史 與理論、技術和媒體。前期工作室專注於香港沿海步道 的園境系統和公共空間，而後續在胡志明市和清邁的工

作室則涉及實地考察和社區參與。進階工作室探討生物 多樣性、構造學、快速城市化和基礎設施。課程的最終成 果為個別論文，涵蓋環境衝突與倡導、園境保育與遺產， 以及對該地區園境設計和規劃實踐的探索等廣泛主題。

LANDSCAPE THESIS

The Landscape Thesis is a year-long, student-led design and research project that caps our Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. The thesis project gives our students the opportunity to define and explore their own individual interests and positions on contemporary landscape architecture while synthesizing the knowledge and skills gained from their landscape education at HKU. Thesis projects also provide a crucial platform for discussion and debate among students, advisors, mentors, and the wider academic and professional community of landscape architects, architects, planners, ecologists, sociologists, and geographers who are invited to jury the students’ presentations. These debates about the practices, theories, and methods of landscape architecture and its important role in environmental stewardship strongly define the ambition of landscape architecture at HKU.

Students begin with the Thesis Preparation course, which covers the primary methods and positioning of landscape architectural research and guides students in drafting a research statement, case studies, and literature review. Students work with their advisor through one of several tracks of

landscape research that help align students’ interests and ambitions broadly with their advisors’ domains of knowledge. Student theses this year resounded landscape architecture’s principal role in bridging the architectural, civil engineering, and planning fields with ecological science and environmental conservation.

Students’ theses covered a wide range of topics, including environmental and humanitarian conflicts, public participation and advocacy, artificial intelligence, smart cities, and landscape conservation and heritage, as well as challenging the status quo of design and planning practices in sites across Hong Kong, greater China, and Southeast Asia.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Destabilizing Expertise

A Landscape-Knowledge Bank for Land Justice and Preemptive Action in Hong Kong’s Non-Indigenous Squatter Settlements

Student: HUI Sin Yee Jun

Thesis Advisor: KELLY Ashley Scott

Keywords: Non-Indigenous Communities, Knowledge Stabilization, Ecological Valuation, Hong Kong Urban Development, Urban Vulnerability, Community Stewardship, Land Management Strategies, Urban Marginalization

Through environmental expertise, Hong Kong’s non-indigenous squatter settlements are managed by planning, civil engineering, and environmental conservation—especially through the institutionalization of these fields in government departments. This thesis traces how that expertise is reproduced and offers a series of landscape strategies to destabilize dominant environmental expertise and promote these settlements’ existing landscape stewardship. For decades, both squatter settlements and the landscapes they depend on have occupied ambiguous and marginalized positions, making them highly vulnerable to displacement or limited resource access. While these settlements rarely receive academic or professional attention, the 2017 Wang Chau planning competition demonstrated an earnest attempt by the planning and design disciplines to address squatter settlements. They also revealed the limitations of these disciplines in terms of offering and effecting land justice, whether in problem framing, process, or proposing interventions.

The research methodology included: (1) constructing a database of squatter settlements in conflict with development proposals from a rigorous compilation of news media events; (2) categorizing and comparing the settlements, which led to selecting

four sites in the New Territories that all have a high complexity of conflicts and are typologically distinct. These included Fanling North NDA, Shek Lei Hang Village, Kon Hang, and Ma On Shan Village; (3) conducting site visits to document and reference the database on the ground; and (4) analyzing how expertise regarding squatter settlements is formed and deployed within individual government departments, particularly in ecological valuation and hazard management. The study concluded that most dominant ecological expertise is highly reductive and that hazard mitigation measures negatively impact inhabitants’ livelihoods.

Through design, the thesis proposes a catalog of thirteen maintenance strategies and four steps for countering existing dominant knowledge processes.

The maintenance strategies are divided into three categories: ecological improvement, water regulation, and slope stabilization. These strategies are supported by and contribute to environmental knowledge accumulation, forming a coordinated landscape knowledge bank that encourages the preemptive participation of landscape architects and non-indigenous squatter inhabitants.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Generating Bioactive Soil

Rethinking Hong Kong Urban Planting Soil as a Living System

Student: KONG Ho Hin Howie

Thesis

Advisor:

TRUMPF Susanne

Keywords: Urban Soil, Soil Health, Urbanization, Soil Ecology, Bioactive Soil, Soil Regeneration, Soil Amendments, Soil Sustainability, Environmental Restoration, Soil Formation, Soil Management Practices, Soil Conservation, Hong Kong Urban Landscapes

Soil, as a fundamental component of urban green spaces, plays a crucial role in supporting plant growth and enhancing landscape performance. Despite its importance, soil is often undervalued and overlooked. Urbanization frequently has detrimental effects on soil health, leading to compromised physical, chemical, and biological properties. Unfortunately, these soil issues are typically approached from an anthropocentric perspective, treating soil as a mere material rather than recognizing its intricate connection to living organisms and natural processes. As a result, the common response to these problems is to add soil amendments without fully considering the holistic nature of soil as a living entity.

In Hong Kong, where natural soil is scarce, fabricated soil mixtures are commonly used as an alternative planting medium. While these mixes are initially designed to meet the specific chemical and physical properties necessary for plant growth, their longterm sustainability is often questionable, frequently resulting in planting failures. Unlike natural soil, these practices fail to account for the natural processes inherent in soil systems. Natural soil forms and regenerates over time through the interactions of climate, vegetation, geology, fauna, and topography. However, this self-sustaining system is disrupted in urban environments.

This project presents a paradigm shift by conceptualizing urban planting soil as an ecological system. Its primary goal is to restore soil functions in urban green spaces. The thesis investigates the establishment and sustainability of a local planting soil system, beginning with the use of local nurseries to generate native bioactive soil, and explores how this transplantation process can regenerate urban planting soil and progressively expand through a transplantation approach.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Feng Shui Toolkit

Bridging the Gap between Feng Shui Knowledge and Landscape Ecology Principles

Student: XIANG Linyu

Thesis Advisor: JIANG Bin

Keywords: Feng Shui, Indigenous Knowledge, Landscape Ecology, Ecological Interpretation, Feng Shui Forests, Historical Knowledge Accumulation, Ecological Sustainability, Landscape Transformation, Chinese Metaphysics

Recognizing Feng Shui as an indigenous knowledge system that holds significant influence within the Chinese cultural context is essential when interpreting this knowledge from a contemporary perspective. This thesis first examines Feng Shui through a historical process, tracing its knowledge accumulation and the evolution of its methods and ideas. It then explores how Feng Shui is defined within contemporary frameworks of knowledge. By identifying problems and obstacles in this process, the thesis develops an interpretive system for Feng Shui knowledge.

During the translation and interpretation process, many mismatches were encountered, leading to several additions and extensions in the system. Building this type of interpretive system is crucial for capturing a localized discourse and re-enfranchising the local community, countering the oppressive values of modernity imposed on indigenous knowledge through multiple layers of interpretation.

Emphasizing indigenous knowledge is a wellestablished way of responding to the unchecked advancement of modernization. The long-term formation and accumulation of such knowledge is necessary for local communities to internalize modern knowledge within their context. Feng Shui,

as a complex knowledge system that has emerged over thousands of years, stands as a dominant form of indigenous knowledge. Its systematic and sovereign nature has led scholars to debate whether it should be classified as science, reflecting its stable status in Chinese culture. Despite this, many scholars have been misled into focusing solely on proving or disproving its scientific validity.

Feng Shui originated from the ancient pursuit of harmonious living in constrained environments. Initially, it integrated metaphysical knowledge from ancient China and has since evolved into a comprehensive system that includes layout patterns, landform configurations, and guidelines for human behavior. In this sense, it can also be seen as a medium for ecological adjustment within society and the economy in China, with its knowledge structured and disseminated by literati over centuries. For instance, the protection of “Feng Shui Forests” illustrates how Feng Shui has facilitated environmental conservation efforts in areas where its principles are followed.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Navigating Rubber

Narrating Environmental History through Alternative Ecological Restoration Schemes in Xishuangbanna

Student: LIU Jiani Vicki

Thesis Advisor: LU Xiaoxuan

Keywords: Ecological Governance, Rubber Plantations, Environmental History, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden (XTBG), Ecological Restoration, Ethnobotanical Knowledge, Asian Elephant Conservation, Xishuangbanna

This thesis investigates the ecological governance of rubber plantations in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China. By tracing the transformation in ideology, policy, and knowledge production, the research challenges the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden’s (XTBG) role in shaping environmental narratives and guiding restoration strategies. The introduction of rubber in the 1950s, driven by strategic and ideological motives, led to extensive monoculture plantations that marginalized local communities and transformed biodiverse landscapes into biological deserts.

The study critiques state simplifications, where uniform rubber plantations exemplify legible landscapes at the expense of ecological complexity. As rubber plantations expanded, local farmers converted significant land areas, driven by market demands, further degrading the region’s ecological integrity. Recent reforestation programs by XTBG and local governments, while ecologically motivated, often overlook local farmers’ experiential knowledge, contrary to XTBG’s historical collaborative approach.

The design research proposes landscape interventions across three XTBG-affiliated sites to uncover the region’s environmental history and redefine XTBG’s role in collaborative ecological

knowledge production. Site A involves scaling up XTBG’s intercropping experiments and empowering farmers with scientific and market resilience knowledge. Site B emphasizes conserving traditional ethnobotanical knowledge among the Akha people by integrating religious and medicinal plant conservation into reforestation efforts. Site C introduces an innovative “Elephant Canteen 2.0” scheme, integrating human-elephant conflict mitigation with rubber replacement and utilizing elephants as ecosystem engineers to enhance forest restoration.

This project underscores the dynamic interplay of cultural, economic, and political forces in shaping knowledge and landscapes. By narrating environmental history through spatial and material interventions, the project aims to foster an inclusive system for knowledge production and evaluation, promoting resilient and biodiverse landscapes in Xishuangbanna.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Reviving Grotto Heaven

Restoring Balance to the Taoist Sacred Sites

Student: PAN Yichang

Thesis Advisor: MAK Wing Sze Vincci

Keywords: Grotto-Heavens, Auspicious Places, Sacred Geography, Taoist Landscapes, Utopian World, Landscape Destruction, Cultural Heritage, Dongtian Fudi, Folklore, Taoist Temples, East Asian Aesthetics, Sacred Landscape Preservation, Tourism Development, Resource Depletion

The ‘Grotto-heavens & auspicious places’ is a unique landscape pattern that exists both in the real world and a utopian world imagined and yearned for by many in the secular world. As a landscape pattern, it is composed of mountains, water, caves, villages, Taoist temples, and all living creatures. Legends about it are circulated throughout China. However, in many cases these sites have already been or are being destroyed. From the perspective of sacred geography, all behaviors and events that affect its sacred characteristics are considered destructive. These mainly include standardized tourism development, real estate development, urbanization, and depletion-type resource development. Based on the distribution map of Dongtian Fudi by the Cultural Heritage Conservation Center (2017), combined with local folklore and satellite map verification of suspected areas, it was found that 20% of the large Dongtian were destroyed and 30% of their locations could not be confirmed;, 30% of the small Dongtian were destroyed and 3% of their locations could not be confirmed;, and 33% of the Fudi were destroyed and 25% of their locations could not be confirmed. Almost half of them have disappeared over time.

As a utopian world, the term ‘Dongtian Fudi’ (Grottoheavens & auspicious places, 洞天福地) has become synonymous with the richest, most beautiful, and

most livable human living environment in Chinese conceptualization. In addition to the widely distributed local ‘Grotto- heavens & auspicious places’ in China that are independent of the official Taoist system, there is an auspicious place in Thị xã

Đông Triều in northeastern Vietnam, the concept of which has migrated from China. Moreover, the pursuit of this utopian world has directly influenced the design of ancient Chinese tombs.

The imagination and pursuit of ‘Grotto-heavens & auspicious places’ can also be seen in Japanese religious myths and Korean garden concepts. That is to say, ‘Grotto-heavens & auspicious places’ has transcended the religious category and profoundly influenced the aesthetics and cultural connotations of the East Asian region. Therefore, the gradual disappearance of it in the physical world and its continuous influence on the spiritual world in the East Asian region make its rescue and protection an urgent matter. However, how to protect the existence of ‘Grotto- heavens & auspicious places’ in the physical world?

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Seeding Biocultural Diversity in Urban Contexts

Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Digital Technology

Student: CHUNG Pui Yu Ada

Thesis Advisor: VALIN Ivan

Keywords: Biocultural Connections, Urban Lifestyle, Digital Technology, Symbiotic Education, Biocultural Practices, Sustainable Future, Ecological Restoration, Bioculturally-Diverse Future, Nature-Culture Link

A characteristic of contemporary urban society is the evident cultural disconnection between humans and the natural environment. Ecologically and culturally intertwined forms of existence have been largely replaced by anthropocentric habitats that view nature primarily as a resource. In developed regions, a majority of individuals now spend more than 90% of their time indoors. Beyond the detrimental effects on mental health associated with this shift in lifestyle, the erosion of our biocultural connections to nature is increasingly recognized as a contributing factor to the global environmental crisis and an obstacle to a sustainable future. This thesis addresses the cultural disjunction between humans and nature in contemporary urban society, with the objective of fostering a bio-culturally diverse future for subsequent generations. By integrating traditional ecological knowledge with digital technology, the thesis proposes a novel approach for landscape architects to engage in symbiotic education for the new generation, leveraging their professional expertise and visualization capabilities in the digital age.

The thesis began by observing and documenting a series of remnant bio-cultural practices found in Hong Kong that are at risk of vanishing. From these cases, the study then isolated a set of components and relationships that structured and sustained traditional connections to nature. These include detailed accounts of climate and seasons, practices of circular economy, knowledge of soil and comfort working with land, appropriation of natural materials, and spatially distinct links to landscape. These findings were then translated onto an easily accessible digital platform aimed in particular at Hong Kong's urban youth, who have scarce opportunity to connect with local nature-based cultures or even to experience natural landscapes on their own.

Through proposing and simulating a form of immersive digital media and speculating on its generational adoption and integration into the physical environment, the thesis demonstrated how traditional relationships with nature and biocultural practices might be partially reconstituted. The technologies employed in this speculation included AR interfaces, place/time-sensitive data access, and embedded sensor/IoT technologies. These tools were used to build new feedback-driven relationships between the digital and physical worlds while educating a new generation on the significance of biocultural futures in the city.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Redefining Mycoscape

Mycelium as a Catalyst for Ecological Restoration and Transformative Landscape Practices in Hong Kong

Student: TANG Chi Tat

Thesis Advisor: ECHEVERRI Natalia

Keywords: Biodegradable Materials, Bioremediation, Ecological Restoration, Ecological Rehabilitation, Fungi, Hong Kong Landfills, Mycelium, Mycology, Mycomediation, Mycotectonic, Microbial Ecology, Soil Decontamination, Soil Remediation, Waste-to-Resources, Waste Management, Waste Utilization

Hong Kong is grappling with a critical waste management crisis, necessitating sustainable and innovative landscape practices. This thesis tackles the pressing environmental issues of waste accumulation and soil degradation. It explores the underutilized potential of mycelium, known for its robust nutrientcycling capabilities, in landscape architecture. Acting like a natural "blender," mycelium breaks down organic matter, transforming it into valuable soil nutrients. While mycelium is often applied in product design, its role in landscape architecture remains largely untapped.

The thesis focuses on three core objectives: rehabilitating degraded landfills and landscapes, transforming waste into valuable materials, and repurposing mycelium specifically for regenerative landscape projects. These projects such as those involving landfills, require temporary landscape solutions where mycelium's lifespan of approximately five years proves advantageous in supporting ecological regeneration.

The project centers on Tseung Kwan O's SENT landfill, a site currently undergoing rehabilitation to become a country park. Despite extensive efforts, soil contamination and compaction continue to hinder restoration initiatives, resulting in failed planting trials.

This thesis proposes mycelium as a viable solution to these challenges, utilizing the site’s abundant wood waste to cultivate mycelium in an inoculation center. This approach not only addresses soil contamination but also presents a feasible method for supporting mycelium growth in degraded environments.

Key strategies involve the use of temporal landscape materials derived from mycelium to decontaminate and revitalize the site. Demonstrations in this study show how mushrooms and mycelium can be integrated with organic waste to create floating mycelium pods for water filtration in ponds and mycelium-infused paving for sustainable construction. Further innovations, such as mycelium berms, coir logs, and filter tubes, support agricultural practices, while mycelium seeds encourage mushroom cultivation, transforming waste into valuable ecological resources.

The thesis presents a model for ecological restoration, highlighting the transformative potential of integrating biology with architecture. By repurposing organic waste through mycelium-based systems, this approach fosters sustainable urban ecosystems and offers a practical solution to the environmental challenges posed by landfills and contaminated sites.

Mycelium-based applications

Mycelium-based material prototype fabrication

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Inside Out Habitat

Reimagining Reciprocity

Student: LAM Yuen Ching Esther

Thesis Advisor: KOKORA Michael

Keywords: Marine Welfare, Aquarium Redesign, Animal Welfare, Marine Habitat Restoration, Human-Animal Reciprocity, Alternative Marine Husbandry, Hong Kong Marine Conservation

Typical aquariums are limited to captivity, creating a jewel box effect (but also a prison for the species) to satisfy the gaze of humans under the pretext of strengthening fisheries, education, or rescue of end angered species. By raising awareness of animal welfare, the moral acceptability of keeping marine life in captivity has decreased recently owing to unusual mortality and health issues. Therefore, an alternative to marine husbandry is vitally important to address the situation.

“Inside out habitat” re-interprets the idea of the “aquarium” while exploring potential solutions to balance marine wildlife welfare, ecosystem conservation, and education purposes through an approach that is more like an OOZ (Jeremijenko, 2003), than a ZOO. In search of a symbiotic interaction between humans and non-humans, this project attempts to invert the typical human-centric hierarchy of the traditional aquarium by achieving a site of reciprocity and a system of collective information that humans and animals can choose to enter freely with mutual benefits.

Specified depths, including intertidal zones and the neritic zone in the subtidal zone of the ocean, would be selected as sites to apply a variety of designs addressing different target species. Several sites

in Hong Kong would be chosen as pilot sites as an experiment of design application. This approach is envisioned as a critical alternative to the captive human-centric environment for marine life and focuses on habitat restoration.

In the contemporary context, the term “Anthropocene” describes the crisis of bolstering alteration of rapid development to nature. Owing to the escalation of human interference to the wild, “nature” as we know it has been redefined and irrevocably reinvented by human force.

At the same time, matters related to unpredictable crises caused by human intervention, including climate change and pollution, were first put on the agenda of the UN Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.

As a follow-up of Agenda 21, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 integrated a shared blueprint of all countries of the United Nations as a response by international agencies toward these threats.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Combating Wildfire and Smoke

Evidence-Based Solutions for Effective Mitigation and Adaptation in Butte, California

Student: XU Maoyang

Thesis Advisor: CHEN

Bin

Keywords: Wildfires, Climate Change, Human-Started Wildfires, Wildfire Combustion, Air Quality Degradation, Ecosystem Disruption, Socioeconomic Disparities, Fire Severity

Amid growing concerns about climate change, the rapid increase in wildfires poses various threats. However, current studies, either through scientific research or practices in landscape architecture, primarily focus on the combustion processes of wildfires, with relatively less attention paid to the combined propagation of wildfire and smoke and their impacts. In particular, wildfire smoke, building upon the wildfires, has a broader range and a wider impact. Therefore, wildfires and smoke should merit comparable consideration in practical research. To address this issue, this thesis explores the commonalities and differences in the spread of wildfires and smoke and examines strategies for managing both wildfires and wildfire smoke through the lens of landscape design.

This study explores the spatiotemporal patterns and drivers in the spread of wildfires and smoke in California using remote sensing data extraction, Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis, correlation analysis, and machine learning techniques. The goal is to employ landscape design methods to assist Butte County in implementing more effective environmental and residential mitigation and adaptation measures. Specifically, it considers how landscape design can contribute to creating fire-resistant environments, developing

efficient evacuation routes, and enhancing air quality through strategic and urban planning.

The findings highlight the critical importance of incorporating both wildfires and smoke into landscape planning and management. By doing so, communities can improve their resilience to these environmental challenges, thereby reducing the risks associated with wildfires and enhancing public health and safety. This integrated approach is essential for fostering sustainable, resilient communities capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change and wildfires.

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Reload Forest

A New Heat Warning System and Heat Resilience Strategies Using Landscape Index for Hong Kong Street Cleaners

Student: TANG Haoran

Thesis Advisor: REN Chao

Keywords: Global Warming, Urban Heat Island, Street Cleaners, Heat Resilience, Heat Stress, Hygiene Issues, Thermal Studies, Environmental Health, Public Health

Hong Kong serves as a prime example of a city deeply affected by the detrimental impacts of global warming, with outdoor workers, particularly those cleaning streets, facing major difficulties due to the severe heat. The distinct urban setting of Hong Kong , characterized by dense populations and small living areas, intensifies these challenges, leading to a multifaceted situation that requires immediate attention and creative solutions.

Hong Kong’s intense heat has resulted in significant cleanliness problems, a direct consequence of the harsh working environment endured by outdoor workers. These workers, especially street cleaners, play a crucial role in maintaining city cleanliness, often working in areas where the temperature can reach dangerous levels. The excessive heat not only affects their well-being and safety but also hinders their productivity and efficiency in performing their duties.

The crowded residential areas in Hong Kong exacerbate these issues. The urban landscape, marked by high-rise buildings and narrow streets, contributes to the heat island effect, where urban areas experience significantly higher temperatures compared to nearby rural zones. This phenomenon has been well-documented and thoroughly

researched in thermal studies, consistently highlighting serious hygiene challenges arising from the combination of dense populations and extreme heat.

The urgency of these hygiene issues is compounded by the fact that many cleaners, especially street workers, operate in extremely hot conditions without adequate safety measures. The lack of proper protection and cooling systems puts these workers at risk of health issues such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, while also impairing their ability to maintain the city’s cleanliness effectively. Given the unsustainable nature of this situation, immediate action is required to protect the health and welfare of these essential workers.

Understanding the full impact of extreme heat on Hong Kong’s street cleaners requires a comprehensive examination of their working conditions and the broader environmental factors at play. Street cleaning professionals often endure long working hours, facing direct sun exposure with limited access to shaded areas or cooling facilities. Their physically demanding job increases their vulnerability to heat-related illnesses.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIOS

The design studio sequence exposes students to a range of scales and topics relevant to the practice of landscape architecture in Asia. The studios are designed to integrate with core courses and allow students to synthesize their growing knowledge and skills through project-based design exercises. In each of the landscape programs, these projects begin with local sites emphasizing fieldwork, detailed observational methods, and case-study reviews. Design is positioned as the outcome of a rigorous process of interpreting a site’s spatial, material, and experiential dimensions. Later studios introduce students to a site’s socio-ecological complexities, engaging with environmental design and landscape planning. These studios challenge the traditional boundaries of the discipline by situating landscape as a territorial practice, incorporating guided-research methods, and observing traditional or alternative forms of environmental knowledge.

Finally, advanced studios introduce interdisciplinary methods and independent research-based design practice to orient students to their own future careers in the profession or allied fields of engagement, research, or activism. A hallmark of our design studios

are the Southeast Asia travelling studios. In the past year, students in the MLA and BA(LS) programs spent nearly two weeks in Vietnam and Chiang Mai, exploring the environmental impacts of urban and rural development and discussing critical planning issues with local stakeholders, students, and active professionals.

Landscape Peripheries

Transformational Approaches along the Coastal Trail

Instructors: TRUMPF Susanne, REN Chao, HILGEFORT Jason

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

'Landscape Peripheries' focuses on urban and ecological development along the Tuen Mun –Tsuen Wan Coastal Trail, encouraging students to envision a more equitable, accessible, and ecological city. Students explored urban and ecological landscapes, with emphasis on creating pedestrianfriendly, nature-focused plans, thus examining how trail improvements could benefit communities and ecosystems, while maintaining balance with conservation systems. Through iterative design proposals, students learned how urban investment can enhance life quality and promote a more equitable, eco-friendly future.

ARCH7131 Studio I

Sky Islands by LEONG On Ian Enya

Ting Kau Stream Valley and Severance from Metropolis Analysis (Group project)

Ho Chi Minh City Futures

Landscape Strategies for Reconciling Water

Instructors: VALIN Ivan, CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Teaching Assistant: LIU Yapeng Olly

National aspirations underpinned by the implementation of the Transit-Oriented-Plan (TOD) and the hectic growth of settlements has generated multiscalar frictions across the Saigon and Dong Nai River water network. Through five exercises, students critically examined the implications of these tensions between the natural legacy and development. In collaboration with the University of Architecture of Ho Chi Minh City (UAH) and local experts, students visited urban and peripheral areas of the city to propose and develop alternative landscape strategies for reconciling water and development.

ARCH7132A Studio IIA

Silent Sinking by SHEN Junxian Jun

Uncertain City by KWOK Sin Yan Yanice

Studio Chiang Mai

Territorial Strategies for Inhabited Forests of Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Instructor: LU Xiaoxuan

Teaching Assistant: SATTAYANRAK Kanisa

Finding an effective conservation practice that can address both the needs of local populations and the demands of the global commons has long been a challenge in managing inhabited forests.

Studio Chiang Mai approached Doi Suthep-Pui National Park as an important case study within a wider examination of cultural and environmental conservation in Southeast Asia. Students studied past and ongoing territorial activities in the region and explored alternative territorialization strategies that mediate challenges faced by a rapidly transforming national park with cultural, economic, and ecological significance.

ARCH7132B Studio IIB

Conservation as Placemaking by LI Huanyang Mutsing

Botanical Garden of Resistance Ecology by HUI Chun To Anthon

MLA students engage in wet rice planting activities in Chiang Mai

Re-Purposing Public Space

Hong Kong’s Large Urban Parks

Instructor: PRYOR Mathew

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing, Virginia

Focusing on Hong Kong's large urban parks, this studio explored the potential of repurposing public space to address critical urban sustainability challenges, such as climate change effects, waste management, energy supply, and public health.

Drawing inspiration from international landscape sustainability projects, they speculated on how these parks could be reimagined, redesigned, and actively managed to contribute more positively to the city's long-term sustainability and resilience.

ARCH7233A Studio IIIA

Public park proposal by KONG Ho Hin Howie

Energize the Waterfront Park by ZHANG Ludan and Public park proposal by LEUNG Tsz Long Anna

Defeating the Ghost City

Landscape practice guided by the Theory of Exquisite City

Instructor: JIANG Bin

Imagination#2

Teaching Assistants: LI Jiali, LIANG Wanying

This studio explores the revitalization of shrinking coastal cities in North China by boosting ecotourism, economic growth, and leveraging natural resources. Students examined the potential of natural and cultural landscapes, ecotourism prospects, and local agriculture with the aim of designing a resilient landscape system that promotes the wellbeing of residents and establishes a connection with the city's natural resources. They conducted fieldwork, interviews, and case studies to comprehend the city's challenges and opportunities. Ultimately, students proposed design solutions to improve the city's urban spaces, taking into consideration climate conditions, construction costs, ecological resilience, and public participation.

Imagination#1

ARCH7233B Studio IIIB

Agricultural tourism,

New village life

Dream Hiraeth to be Home Land by HU Haoran Mindful Journey by WANG Pengtao

Experimental Landscape

Landscape Tectonics & Spatial Form

Instructor: KOKORA Michael

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

The innovative use of materials and three-dimensional spatial form in landscape architecture was critically explored in this studio. Students began with material and spatial studies, using techniques like casting, 3D printing, and CNC milling. The process then transitioned to adapting and integrating these studies into a site. Through model making, photography, and drawing, students explored the unique properties of construction materials and blurred the boundary between landscape architecture and architecture. The studio also incorporated precedent case studies for historical context and inspiration.

ARCH7233C Studio IIIC

Acoustic Landscape by MA Duo, Exploring Void by TANG Chi Tat, and Collection of Short Stories by YANG Zihan Ziv

Out of Form by LAM Yuen Ching Esther and New Bird-human-shared Habitat Landscape by PAN Yichang

ARCH7233D Studio IIID

2060: IN-FILTRATED

Projecting a Carbon Neutral Future around Xili Lake

Instructors: CHEN Chen, SALADINO Nicola

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

The studio focused on Shenzhen Xili Lake area, which has a unique combination of mountainous forests, urban villages with Hakka cultural heritage, modern university towns and high-tech industry. The objective was to project a future for the reservoir, integrating its water system with new urban models that address the existing unbalanced development and ecological degradation, while responding to policy / technology changes related to China's 2060 carbon neutrality goals.

Pre-Solution before the Conflicting Point by ZHANG Chaoying

Healing City by TANG Haoran

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

PDLA

園境深造文憑課程

ECHEVERRI Natalia

Senior Lecturer, Program Director (MLA/PDLA), Division of Landscape Architecture

高級講師,

園境碩士/園境深造文憑課程主任,

園境建築學部

The Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (PDLA) is an intensive one-year curriculum that introduces foundational skills, theories, and concepts of landscape architecture to students without previous training in the environmental design fields. It creates new pathways for students with non-traditional academic backgrounds and experiences to enter the field, creating a multi-skilled cohort capable of bridging traditional disciplinary boundaries and expanding the profession from within.

The PDLA curriculum is constructed around a broad approach to landscape architecture, structured around a sequence of studios that equip students with a set of critical methods for observing, analyzing, and reshaping the physical environment. These studios are designed in conjunction with lectures and seminars on history and theory, visual communication, and landscape technology that help to expand and contextualize design knowledge. The majority of students who have completed the PDLA have gone on to enroll in the Division’s own MLA program or in other overseas postgraduate landscape programs

園境深造文憑課程 (PDLA) 是一個為期一年的緊湊課程，

旨在向沒有環境設計相關背景的學生介紹園境建築的 基礎技能、理論和概念。該課程為來自非傳統學術背景 和擁有多元經歷的學生開放新的入行途徑，培養一批能 夠跨越傳統學科界限並從內部拓展專業領域的多技能 人才。

PDLA程以廣泛的園境建築方法為基礎，圍繞一系列工作 室進行編排，這些工作室為學生提供觀察、分析和改造 物理環境的關鍵方法。同時，課程中設有歷史與理論、視 覺傳達和園境技術的講座與研討會，幫助學生擴展設計 知識並將其置於更廣泛的背景中。大多數完成PDLA 課 程的學生繼續在本學部的園境碩士 (MLA) 課程或其他海 外研究生課程中進修。

YEAR 1 Fall Semester Spring Semester

Landscape Architecture Intensive

Foundation Studio I

Foundation Studio II

Landscape Media I Landscape Media II

Landscape Systems

Histories of Landscape

Landscape Technologies and Techniques

Environment and Communities of the City

FIELD-WORK

Uncovering Site and Engaging Process in the Landscape

Teaching Assistant:

This is the first design studio in the PDLA + MLA curriculum and it introduces fundamental skills and concepts for landscape architects focused on environmental systems. Students explored reading and representing place, relationships, materials, time, and processes. Emphasizing drawing and modeling as creative and documentary research methods, the studio examined design as an expression of the site and personal experiences. As the studio was structured around themes of gradient, network, and parameter, students enriched their understanding of landscape design by experimenting with mediated landscapes and integrating sensory observations and analyses from simulations.

ARCH7138 Foundation Studio I

Instructor: VALIN Ivan

TSUI Ho Yin Tony

Material exploration by LAN Xingyi Claire and model making by LI Jian Biao Bill

sections and renderings by LI Jian Biao

Urban Water/Urban Wild

Recalibrating Nature/Human Relationships in Hong Kong

Instructor: ECHEVERRI Natalia

Teaching Assistant: LIU Yapeng Olly

This course examined the city as a palimpsest, reflecting on its rapid population growth, cultural identities, geology, climate, and various sociopolitical and economic conditions. The studio was centered on Quarry Hill, Ho Man Tin, an area that evolved from barren hills, farmlands, and cemeteries into an urban landscape reshaped to accommodate the influx of Chinese refugees in the 1950s. Students analyzed the area’s present condition and historical transformations, proposing interventions that addressed time, landscape processes, and interactions between humans and non-human actors.

ARCH7139 Foundation Studio II

Models by WONG King Hei Philip and FONG Kwan Kiu Karen

Connect the Greenery by LI Jian Biao Bill and Blockstone Valley by LAN Xingyi Claire

ARCH7191 Landscape Architecture Intensive

Hong Kong: Big City, Little Landscapes

Instructors: SHINJI Wataru

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

This course explored the concept of open space within Hong Kong's dense metropolis, questioning what constitutes a landscape, whether a garden, park, or vacant lot. Students investigated various outdoor spaces by analyzing their unique characteristics, including topography, adjacent buildings, and community engagement. Through in-person field studies and site visits, students analyzed these spaces to inform their design responses. The course redefined how these areas are perceived and utilized, culminating in a public exhibition to showcase their final design proposals.

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES BA(LS)

園境學文學士課程

MAK Wing Sze Vincci

Senior Lecturer,

Program Director BA(LS), Division of Landscape Architecture

高級講師, 園境學文學士主任, 園境建築學部

Landscape Representation I Landscape Technology I

Landscape History and Theory I Landscape Representation II

Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

Common Core Course

Interdisciplinary Course

Language Course

Language Course

The Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies (BA(LS)) program equips students with a curriculum that emphasizes design, landscape technology, history and theory, and visual communications. We give students a comprehensive grounding in the knowledge, concepts, and skills that landscape architects commonly require to deal with the complex community, ecology, and developmental issues within diverse urban and natural environments.

The BA(LS) program is studio-based, allowing students to work directly with instructors on design projects and guided research studies that integrate both theoretical exploration and practical implementation. The design studio is integrated with concurrent theoretical and technical courses that reinforce the core knowledge of landscape architecture and broaden students' perspectives across related disciplines.

園境學文學士課程(BA(LS))是一個強調設計、園境技術、 歷史與理論以及視覺傳達的課程，為學生奠定堅實的基 礎。該課程使學生具備園境建築師在面對多元城市和自 然環境中的複雜社區、生態及發展問題所需的知識、概 念和技能。

BA(LS)課程以工作室為基礎，讓學生在設計項目和指導 研究中直接與導師合作，將理論探索與實踐實施相結 合。設計工作室與並行的理論和技術課程相互融合，加 強學生對園境建築的核心知識，並拓展他們在相關學科 中的視野。

Landscape Representation II

Landscape Representation III

Landscape Technology III

Landscape History and Theory IV

ARCH4202 Studio VI

Thai-Myanmar Border Studio

Critical Landscape Planning for the Dawna-Tenasserim Landscape

Instructor: KELLY Ashley Scott

The Thai-Myanmar Border Studio builds on twelve years of undergraduate landscape experiential learning across mainland Southeast Asia. This year, students travelled roughly 600 kilometers overland to meet with human rights and environmental organizations and visit several large-scale development projects, including hydropower on the Salween and Yuam rivers, a coal mine, and the planned large-scale water diversion tunnel from the Salween to Chao Phraya basins. Students individually proposed landscape planning strategies that deployed community mapping, villager research, and citizen science; addressed power and knowledge in scientific reforestation programs; and confronted infrastructure investment and contested value systems in dual-governed regions.

BA(LS) Studio VI Students trekking along a small tributary of the planned reservoir area in Thailand-Myanmar border

Re-grounding Relics

Instructor:

Teaching Assistant:

This landscape design studio explored the foundational theories and concepts of landscape architecture, emphasizing the relationship between nature and the human scale. Students learned to articulate abstraction, speculation, and creativity in response to specific site conditions by developing logical and concise design arguments. The studio examined the historic Pinewood Battery in Lung Fu Shan as a dynamic system where ground, structures, and atmospheric conditions interact. Through three multi-scale projects, students learned to closely read, represent, and intervene in the site.

ARCH2113 Studio I

CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Lofted Connections by WONG Po Mun Polly

Meander Layering by HUI Koon Kai Craig, Pole Sequences by CHIU Chun Yin Isaac and Frames by HE Lok Yiu Melody

Landscape in the City

Urban Transects of PoHo Neighborhood

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

'Landscape in the city’ studio delves into the relationships between people and the built environment within urban landscapes. Through diverse exercises, students analyzed key factors shaping urban contexts—physical, ecological, economic, and social—while developing a vocabulary for effectively communicating urban design. For the final project, students crafted the composition and layout of Blake Garden courts, synthesizing research from observation, mapping, and historical investigation. This process enabled them to create a narrative that informed their designs, ranging from master plans to detailed site interventions.

Site Analysis (Group project)

ARCH2202 Studio II

Site Analysis by HUI Yu Yuen Alyssa and Urban Slopescape by HE Lok Yiu Melody

Engaging Infrastructure, Nature and Heritage in Sham Shek Tsuen

Instructor: ECHEVERRI Natalia, NG Sylvia

Teaching Assistant: LI Ziyuan Lena

This course explores the complex relationships between landscape systems and human settlements, focusing on the interplay between geological, hydrological, climatic, and ecological factors and cultural traditions. The studio centered on Sham Shek Tsuen, a village along the Tung O Ancient Trail with diverse landscapes, including woodlands, shrublands, overgrown agriculture, marshes, mangroves, and tidal flats. Students worked between the watershed and the coast to identify, analyze and map key site aspects. For their final projects, students developed individual design proposals that responded to their research.

Aqua-Dance by XIONG Yu Chen Celine

ARCH3203 Studio III

Habitat Renewal by WU Fan Lucy, Let the Water run again by CHEUNG Peggy and Encountering by CHUNG Pui Shan Jennifer

Junk Bay: Landscape Systems and Urban Infrastructures

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne, ETTEL Nikolas

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

The studio built upon current and planned infrastructures around Junk Bay. It critically examined the urban transformation of Tseung Kwan O from an industrial hub to a densely populated New Town by observing, drawing, and modeling existing conditions. Students were encouraged to rethink landscape infrastructures and natural systems to envision new spatial and ecological symbioses for open spaces. Through three assignments, students critically analyzed the site conditions, engaged with readings and case studies, and developed cohesive landscape responses, aiming to create accessible, recreational, and resilient urban spaces.

ARCH3204 Studio IV

Site model and Mussel Bay by WU Fan Lucy

Eco-connection through Water by XIONG Yuchen Celine and Mussel Bay by WU Fan Lucy

ARCH4201 Studio V

The Bigger Picture

Coloring Outside the Lines

Instructor: JAN Brian

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

In the context of urban development, city planning is frequently driven by infrastructure engineers and developers, often sidelining landscape design. This studio empowers students to challenge the conventional urban planning process, highlighting the importance of integrating landscape design at an early stage and in a more meaningful way. Students explored the potential of redefining boundaries rather than merely filling in leftover spaces with greenery. Through this approach, they learned how innovative landscape interventions can positively impact urban environments and enhance public areas, fostering a more integrated and vibrant city.

Fisherman’s Wharf by LEE Jinyoung Jinnie

Aberdeen Extension by LAM Yi Han Enson

Invigorating Island South by TSUI Tsz Shan Iris

BA(LS) Studio VI field trip to large-scale development projects along the Thailand-Myanmar border

PLANTING + ECOLOGY

Our Planting and Ecology courses integrate the scientific foundations of botany, soil, water, and climate with the socio-cultural practices involved in the planning, construction, management, and conservation of natural and designed landscapes. In the coming decades, a major task for landscape architects will be to help reverse biodiversity loss and restore ecological health worldwide. Hong Kong serves as a major testing ground for integrating urban and natural systems. Students in our landscape programs benefit from learning in the field to explore the territory’s vast country park system, visit world- class ecological restoration projects, and observe experiments in urban green infrastructure. These Planting and Ecology courses are closely linked with the design studios, encouraging students to synthesize their knowledge of plants and ecology in their site design and planning work. Similarly, studios that travel abroad to Thailand, Vietnam, or Singapore allow students to engage with the challenges of habitat loss and degradation due to climate change and uncontrolled development that threaten Southeast Asia’s biodiversity hotspots.

Tree planting field trip in Mui Wo

ARCH2114

Ecology and Sustainability

Instructor: HAU Billy Chi Hang

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Landscape architects shape both expansive landscapes and urban environments. Understanding the necessary tools and techniques is essential to achieve design goals effectively. This course investigated vegetation succession, animal-plant interactions, urban biodiversity, biological invasion, creating microhabitats in urban greeneries, and ecosystem services of urban vegetation. Through lectures, assignments, and site visits, students analyzed existing landscapes ecologically and assessed their sustainability.

ARCH1102 / ARCH7152

Plants and Planting Design I / Landscape Plants and Ecology I

Instructor: COATES Gavin

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

Understanding horticulture is essential for landscape architects. This course equipped students with comprehensive knowledge of plant species and communities in Hong Kong and Southern China. They studied plant characteristics, botany, physiology, and taxonomy while learning planting design principles. Students explored how plant form and ecological habitats influence selection and arrangement, enhancing environmental experiences. Field trips provided opportunities to analyze real planting designs, covering topics like plant propagation, horticultural care, and the functional applications of plants in historical and contemporary contexts.

ARCH7255

Landscape Plants and Ecology II

Instructor: PRYOR Mathew

Ecological creation, restoration, and enhancement are growing areas of landscape practice, encompassing both the need to mitigate or compensate for damage to existing ecological areas (or consequential impacts) resulting from commercial, residential, and infrastructural development, and a growing desire to increase the coherence, biodiversity, and resilience of existing urban landscapes. This course explores ecologically based landscape architectural practice, looking at the natural ecology, notable ecologicallybased landscape projects in Hong Kong and the latest methods and approaches used by landscape architects in conjunction with applied ecologists within both terrestrial and wetland projects.

Section by SO Ching Lam Rainbow , HUNG Tsz Hin Hung Henry, and SINGCULAN Gwyneth Tajanlangit

Section by HO Tsz Hei Tea and Ching Hau Sik Monique

REPRESENTATION + MEDIA

Our Representation and Media courses introduce students to the essential tools and techniques involved in design communication. Foundational courses explore the relationships between representation and design, particularly by positioning site observation, analysis, and abstraction as a generative part of a rigorous, iterative design process. Advanced courses take advantage of HKU’s significant traditional shop and digital fabrication resources, exploring the computational aspects of design and material detailing. Landscape architecture research and practice increasingly depend on robust site analysis and engagement with larger urban and territorial scales of work. Consequently, we train students to be proficient in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and to excel in geospatial analysis for the rational, ethical, and innovative use of data to shape and preserve human and natural environments.

Comparison of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Intensity (Group project)

ARCH1103

Landscape Representation I:

Conceptual and Abstract Representation

Ambiguous perception: Reimagining public space

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe

This Representation course introduces students to visual representation as a tool for conceptual and creative processes through exercises focused on Hong Kong’s public spaces. Projects place emphasis on observing the dynamic built environment, and highlighting how drawings, models, and other representational tools enhance the creative visualization process. Students explored the connection between landscape creation and its portrayal, engaging in an iterative process of documentation and speculative creation. They utilized diverse methods of depiction, moving from observation to interpretation and representation.

ARCH1104

Landscape Representation II: Operations and Fabrication

Beyond Boundaries: Navigating Materials and Digital Integration

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe

Teaching Assistant: LIU Yapeng Olly

Offering an immersive exploration of space and form, this course provides students with the opportunity to experiment with diverse fabrication techniques, from additive to subtractive processes. They began with conceptual form-finding in Project 1, generating ideas about material connections and spatial conditions. Following this, students created exploded orthographic projections from their models, demonstrating an understanding of their elements. Project 2 evolved through iterative steps as they documented site movements and behaviors, ultimately designing a refined intervention for the Sun Yat Sen podium that considered purpose, accessibility, and human scale.

ARCH3098

Landscape Representation III: Operations and Fabrication Digital Methods

Instructor: CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

With rapid technological advancements, several computer-aided technologies have been integrated into design processes through a range of software packages. These tools enable the exploration of new possibilities in design representation, methods, modeling and fabrication. This course included lectures, tutorials, and workshops that introduced students to the application of these tools. Through three exercises, students learned to analyze and visualize microclimate conditions, apply parametric tools based on specific site constraints, and fabricate a 1:1 site intervention proposal.

ARCH3097/ ARCH7176

Landscape Media Systems and

Simulations

Instructor: CHEN Bin

Teaching Assistants: LI Ziming,WANG Han,YU Wenbo

Visual communications through graphics and models are key training elements and practices for landscape architects. This course focused on encouraging students to engage with realworld environments, learning to utilize digital representation, spatial analysis, and information generalization to understand complex landscape systems. Students developed spatial and temporal skills using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for data collection, analysis, and addressing practical landscape studies. Through a combination of lectures and tutorials, students explored geospatial datasets and mapping technologies, equipping them to analyze environmental changes and the interactions between human and natural systems.

Space and Form model by HUNG Tsz Hin

Seaspace In Relaxation by SHEK Hiu Yan

Ecological Impact of River Channelisation in Hong Kong (Group project)

Rain Basin by XIONG Yuchen Celine

ARCH7181

Landscape Media I

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

Landscape Media I introduces students to landscape media and representation skills, emphasizing documentation and fabrication methods. Students investigated the boundaries between landscape media and drawing, understanding drawing as a strategic process that allows for expression and construction within physical space. They developed foundational knowledge in landscape and site appraisal through observation and exploring landscape creation using digital tools and spatial analysis. The course featured two main projects: the first involved site analysis in collaboration with the Foundation Design Studio, while the second focused on experimentation through iterative documentation and speculative creation.

ARCH7182

Landscape Media II

Materials and Fabrication

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

This course introduces students to essential digital and manual tools of design and representation in landscape architecture. Students explored techniques in material testing and digital fabrication as an iterative part of the design process with digital platforms and procedural tools as key elements of a cross-media approach to digital production. Shifting from material analysis to visual programming and 1 to 1 fabrication, students transformed the products of material observations into design methodologies and formed an understanding of abstraction, rigor, and transformation through experimentation.

Final review Topographic models

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Orthographic Projection

Drawing by CHING Hau Sik

Fig. 02 ARCH1104

Conceptual additive model by SINGCULAN Gwyneth Tajanlangit

Fig. 03 ARCH1104

Conceptual subtractive model by SINGCULAN Gwyneth Tajanlangit

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Conceptual additive model by HO Tsz Hei

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Subtractive foam model

prototype by HO Tsz Hei

Fig. 06 ARCH1104 Casting prototype by HO Tsz Hei

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Plaster model by HO Tsz Hei

Fig. 09 ARCH1104 Final printed model by HO Tsz Hei

Fig. 10 ARCH1104 2 and a ½ model by HO Tsz Hei

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Conceptual subtractive

model by LAU Sin Ting

Fig. 14-18 ARCH3098 Bird

Shelter prototype by LO Lai Yin Daniel

Fig. 19 ARCH7181

Topographic Model by FONG Kwan Kiu Karen

Fig. 20-21 ARCH7181

Topographic Models by LAN Xingyi Claire

Fig. 22-23 ARCH7181

Topographic Models by LI Jian Biao

Fig. 24-28 ARCH7182

1 to 1 prototyping for Final review

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TECHNOLOGY + PRACTICE

Our Technology and Practice courses cover many of the key technical and professional areas of expertise for landscape architects. This sequence of courses offers a practical foundation in both large and small-scale site engineering and water management, with particular attention to regional construction and management standards, building codes, and environmental regulations. Students engage with concepts of resilience and sustainability from the perspective of hydrology and material ecology to challenge “best practices” and imagine new relationships with water and innovative applications for natural and synthetic materials in the built environment. This sequence culminates in a course devoted to bridging landscape education and practice. It includes a detailed examination of local professional practices, as well as visits to key construction sites and design offices across the city.

ARCH7157

Landscape Systems

Instructor: KEHRER Jutta

This seminar examines landscape as an assembly of natural systems—geological, hydrological, climatic, and ecological—interacting dynamically with human systems, including building development and urban infrastructure. Through case studies, readings, and technical exercises, students explored foundational theories of landscape and the relationships between the built and natural environments at various scales. They developed skills in “reading” landscapes to assess their qualities and functions while critically reflecting on terms like “sustainability,” “resilience,” and “productivity.” The course also analyzed landscape changes over time and identified key factors shaping the current land mosaic.

ARCH7151

Landscape Technology I

Grading and Drainage

Instructor: COATES Gavin

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Landscape architects shape both expansive landscapes and urban environments. Understanding the necessary tools and techniques is essential to achieve design goals effectively. This course provides students with a foundational knowledge for engineering sites and translating design objectives into built form. Lectures covered key topics, including topographical analysis and responsive site planning, landform design, structural elements like walls and steps, soils and earthwork, stormwater management, and site layout and road design. Students gained critical skills for successful landscape architecture practice.

ARCH7158

Landscape Technologies and Techniques

Instructor: COATES Gavin

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

This course integrates two primary means of shaping landscape space and function: landform and planting design. Students explored essential techniques for land shaping, focusing on grading strategies within the site design process and learning various methods for documenting grading. In the planting component, key principles of plant design in the landscape were examined, considering plants as both individuals and members of ecological communities. The course emphasized the interconnectedness of ground and plants as evolving aspects of the environment, supplemented by regular field trips to enhance studio learning.

ARCH7156

Landscape Technology II

Material, Assembly, and Performance in Landscape Architecture

Instructor: VALIN Ivan

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

This advanced course in MLA Technologies examines materiality, detailing, fabrication, and performance in landscape architecture. Through case studies and site visits, students explored the relationship between material selection, implementation, and design intent across various project phases. The course was divided into three sections: the first introduced common hardscape and structural materials, focusing on their origins, performance, and life-cycle considerations. The second section covered detailing for paths, stairs, and other landscape features, highlighting essential structural strategies. The final section addressed documentation standards throughout design development and construction, while site visits showcased best and worst practices in Hong Kong.

Promenade Pavilion redesign by LIM Wing Kwan Tanya

ARCH3102

Landscape Technology III

Technology in Landscape Architecture

Instructor: KEHRER Jutta

Successful practice in landscape architecture relies on a comprehensive understanding of materials and their technologies. This course examines components of the natural landscape, focusing on how to manipulate them to create new landscapes. Students explored a broad spectrum of materials, from natural to artificial and inert to organic, applied across various physical and temporal scales. The processes involved in this manipulation served as a foundational methodology for design, fostering innovative approaches to landscape architecture.

ARCH7281

Landscape Architecture Practice

Instructor: WILSON Barry

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

Students were given the opportunity to consider post-academic working life by adopting professional working outlooks and habits across weekly sessions. Utilizing immersive activities, students were able to become more familiar with the basic principles, common concerns, and requirements of landscape architectural practice, including an understanding of behavior, ethics, and professionalism; landscape services and consultancy; project team, practice and construction management; and procurement and contract requirements. Visits to practitioner offices, safety training, and live construction sites assisted in the absorption of learning.

Steps design drawings by XIONG Yuchen Celine

PDLA students learning to 'read' the landscape, Ark Eden at Mui Wo, Lantau

HISTORY + THEORY

Our History and Theory courses examine landscape architecture and environmental planning through an in-depth study of key projects, practices, and texts that are broadly relevant to our evolving discipline. These courses include a review of design histories with particular attention to the environmental, economic, technological, and social dimensions that shape landscape practices across diverse regions and periods. Lessons explore canonical case studies as well as counter-narratives in environmental design and management that challenge the inequalities and socio-spatial hierarchies complicating our field of practice. Ultimately, this thematic track aims to promote critical and reflexive perspectives on contemporary landscape practice among our graduates.

Exploration of forest succession, dispersal on Tai Mo Shan

ARCH7148

Histories of Landscape

A Disciplinary Exploration

Instructor: WANG Ting

This course explores various approaches to understanding landscape, environment, and nature. Instead of a chronological history, lectures focus on key terminology and concepts relevant to contemporary landscape architecture. The course traces the history of these concepts, examining their creation and impact within historical, cultural, and social contexts. It also highlights interdisciplinary interactions with science, ecology, geography, and anthropology. Students engaged with modern landscape projects and interacted with experts such as ecologists and restorationists through case studies and field trips.

ARCH1029

Landscape History and Theory I: Introduction to

Landscape Design

Instructor: CHAN Yin Lun

By examining the concept of landscape and interpreting it as a profession, discipline, medium, and idea, this course challenges students to think critically about the relationship between individuals and their environments, expanding their understanding through activities such as observing, interpreting, discussing, and representing landscapes. Each week’s lectures focused on a specific aspect of landscape, encouraging students to reveal the layered conditions and processes within it. The course emphasized reading and discussion, requiring students to engage with weekly readings and contribute topics and questions for exploration.

ARCH2106/ ARCH7141

Landscape History and Theory II: Theory and Practices of Contemporary Landscape

Landscapes of Modernity, Modernism and the Contemporary

Instructors:

LU Xiaoxuan, CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

This course sought to understand contemporary positions within the landscape discipline by tracing developments from the early 19th to the 21st centuries. It posited that history, theory, and practice are interdependent, grounding design in specific contexts (Meyer, 1992). Students reflected on canonical landscape history case studies through a critical research-based essay, along with in-class presentations and discussions. These activities explored intellectual transformations that led to new design and planning methodologies in the landscape architecture discipline.

ARCH2203/ARCH7159

Landscape History and Theory III: Environment, Community & Design Agency of Change and Ethics of Practice

Instructors:

Virginia

The roles of architects, landscape architects, and planners in creating environmental and social change are explored in this course. Students examined how these professionals engage with communities and stakeholders to improve lives while addressing paradoxes in contemporary design practice amid neoliberal urbanization and crises in housing and public health. Through weekly seminars, readings, and lectures, students gained insights into the social roles and ethics of design, including emerging “design activism.” Case studies and community fieldwork allowed them to apply their knowledge, fostering a critical understanding of the complex forces shaping the built environment today.

HiroshimaMonAmour by SABUROVA Polina

Slides of Case Study on Bishan Park by WANG Xiangyi and LI Huangyang

MAK Wing Sze Vincci , FAN Man Si Phoebe Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing

Analytical Transect Collage by LO Chui Sim Cadence

ARCH3205/ ARCH7142

Landscape History and Theory IV: Strategic Landscape Planning

Landscape Planning and Development Theory

Instructors:

KELLY Ashley Scott, CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

Landscape Planning and Development Theory surveys approaches across landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, ecology, and development studies. Students examined contradictions between landscape arts and landscape sciences in legacies of development suitability and GIS, modern landscape and spatial ecology, landscape urbanism, impact assessment, and environmental activism. Projects connected those histories with current technological trends in predictive landscape modelling of ecological connectivity and ecosystem services in Asia, encouraging reflection on their use for strategic landscape planning and sustainable development.

ARCH7291

Thesis Prep

Instructor: LU Xiaoxuan

Teaching Assistant: SATTAYANRAK Kanisa

Thesis Preparation introduces MLA candidates to the fundamental parameters of a landscape design thesis and equips them with essential research skills for their upcoming thesis projects. The course overviewed qualitative research methodologies common in landscape architecture and related fields, covering key dimensions such as design context, disciplinary position, and speculative strategies. Students engaged in initial site research, framed relevant research questions, conducted literature reviews, and explored design methodologies. By developing a tentative thesis topic, students deepened their understanding of research’s critical role in design practice.

Thesis Proposition model by PAN Yichang

New Stepping Stone and Ecological flow overall map (Group project)

Chinese White Dolphin Research (Group project)

Thesis proposition model by LIU Jiani Vicki

Master of Science in Conservation

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CONSERVATION

MSc(Cons)

理科碩士(建築文物保護)

課程

SHETABI Linda Lecturer, Program Director (MSc(Cons))

講師, 理科碩士(建築文物保護)主任

園境建築學部

The Master of Science in Conservation is designed to equip our graduates with the technical competencies and intellectual skills required to guide decisionmaking in conservation planning, management and design in the 21st century.

Through its unique and innovative interdisciplinary approach, the program leverages the Faculty of Architecture’s internationally recognized expertise in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and building construction, along with their established professional connections, to develop a deeper understanding of heritage within the framework of sustainability. It utilizes a comprehensive toolset for conservation, embracing the inseparable link between natural and cultural heritage within diverse landscapes and ecosystems.

This year in collaboration with UNESCO and ICOMOS, our students contributed to heritage conservation efforts in the Asia-Pacific Region by documenting earthquake damaged ancestral homes in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Vigan.

Our program is supported by the Built Heritage Research Collaborative (BHRC), a research lab established within the HKUrban Labs. Its mission is to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaborative projects among heritage researchers at HKU and other academic and professional institutions.

建築文物保護理學碩士課程旨在培養畢業生具備21世 紀保育規劃、管理和設計的技術能力和智識技能，以引 導保育決策過程。

通過其獨特且創新的跨學科方法，該課程充分利用了建 築學院在規劃、建築、園境建築和建築施工方面的國際 認可專業知識，以及其廣泛的專業聯繫，來深化在可持 續發展框架下對遺產的理解。該課程運用了一套綜合的 保育工具，強調自然遺產與文化遺產在多樣化景觀與生 態系統中的不可分割聯繫。

今年，課程與聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）及國際古蹟 遺址理事會（ICOMOS）合作，學生們通過記錄聯合國教 科文組織世界遺產城市——維干市受地震損壞的祖屋， 為亞太地區的遺產保護工作做出了貢獻。

該課程由設立於香港城市實驗室內的建築遺產研究合 作中心（BHRC）支持。該中心的使命是促進香港大學及 其他學術和專業機構的遺產研究人員之間的知識交流 與合作項目。

Award Ceremony for documentation of Ancestral homes at World Heritage City of Vigan, Phillipines

Conservation Thesis

The War Heritage Comfort

Student: ZHU Yu

Thesis Advisor: SHU Changxue

War history has left us not only the “Comfort Women Issue” but also comfort station sites. The latter— sites where comfort women once lived—have been considered as war heritage in Korea, China, Australia, Burma, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, East Timor, and New Guinea since the 1990s. This thesis participates in the rising public discourse in a historical and spatial way. Focusing on Shanghai, it reveals, for the first time, the dynamics of the Japanese invasion, the establishment and expansion of comfort stations, and the urban fabrics of modern Shanghai during the wartime 1931-1945. This particular type of heritage challenges the local protection framework today.

Folk Museums

The

Student: CHEN Yin-Tong

Thesis Advisor: SHU Changxue

Cultural heritage in Hong Kong has often been studied in two separate categories: representing local Chinese tradition and foreign colonial influences. Questioning the dichotomy, this thesis examines Hong Kong’s initial stage of heritage making in the 1977-1997 period, the last phase of the colonial era (1841-1997). It reveals why and how indigenous relics—in the form of folk museums— were exemplified as Chinese culture in the colonial process of defining and packaging the Chinese past. While this process is integral to the establishment of Hong Kong’s official heritage protection system, it is also frozen in the current dynamics of heritage.

Japanese military invasion dynamics during the Battle of Shanghai

Sam Tung Uk Museum, the heritagization, 1981-87

The remaining Comfort Stations Sites in Shanghai’s Historical Districts today

Comfort stations in Shanghai The early cases of

CONS8215 Conservation thesis

Heritagization in Hong Kong, 1976-1997

CONS8215 Conservation thesis

Station in Shanghai

CONS8221

Design for Conservation

Instructor: BRENNAN Bernard

Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

Guided by a values-based approach to conservation, and the Sustainable Development Goals, two historically significant and complex landscapes were selected to challenge established presumptions of heritage significance, and the culture-nature divide. Students presented conservation scenarios for the historic Tai Tam Reservoir Complex on Hong Kong Island, and the former Perowne Barracks, in the New Territories to showcase the importance of landscape and context in preserving and sustaining heritage significance for future generations.

CONS8220

Conservation Planning and Management

Instructor: SHETABI Linda

Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

Guided by a value-based approach to heritage conservation and the Sustainable Development Goals, our management students tackled two historically significant landscapes, challenging prevailing assumptions of heritage significance and the culture-nature divide. On Hong Kong Island's historic Tai Tam Reservoir Complex, management students joined their design counterparts to devise innovative conservation management plans for the imaginative scenarios developed for the complex's abandoned historic buildings and culturally rich landscape. At the former Perowne Barracks in the New Territories, our students took a stand against redevelopment threats, illuminating the site’s heritage value as an ensemble and underscoring the sustainable impact of its current occupant, the Crossroads Foundation.

Conservation of Tai Tam Reservoir Complex (Group work)

Conservation of Perowne Barracks (Group work)

CONS8117

Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation

Instructor: SHETABI Linda

The "Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation" course introduces students to key research methodologies in heritage conservation, enhancing their skills in data collection and analysis. With this foundation in place, students participated in carefully tailored fieldtrips and engaged with a range of professionals from documentary film makers, to exhibition designers and curators to understand how various theoretical frameworks are utilized in knowledge creation and dissemination strategies for heritage research and interpretation. This intellectual engagement enabled them to critique existing narratives in terms of their effectiveness.

CONS8216

Critical Issues in Heritage Conservation

Historic Built Environment in the Age of Digital Humanities and Climate Change

Instructor: SHU Changxue

Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

This course throws fresh light on the conventional wisdom and long-standing issues of conservation. Students obtained visionary perspectives on the following field-defining questions: Would the 19th-20th century frameworks of conservation be endangered in the new dynamics of sustainability and digital technology? How to enrich our appreciation of historical built environment? What roles could conservation play? A teaching-learning-research combined pedagogy was used. Students developed research skills to interconnect value assessment and material vulnerability. They also learned to be more critical of sources and tools.

CONS8120

Built Heritage and Its Significance

Instructor: UNAKUL Montira

A comprehensive introduction to the theories and practices of heritage conservation and management was provided in this course. It covered the evolution of the conservation movement in both local and global contexts, emphasizing values-based approaches that connect people, nature, and culture. Students learned to identify and articulate values, preparing a Statement of Significance as a foundation for developing conservation management plans. Through case studies focused on Hong Kong and East Asia, they explored various heritage types and critically reflected on how heritage values are constructed and utilized.

2.1.4 Building Typology

2.4.4 Vacancy & occupancy

CONS8222

Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development

Instructor: CHUA Mark Hansley Yang

Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

This course tackles heritage conservation issues from a neo institutional economics perspective. It introduces theories connected to property rights, the governance of common-pool resources, and urban development processes that are relevant to heritage conservation. At the end of the semester, the students are tasked to create an economic landscape map of the surroundings of designated adaptive reuse projects.

Character Defining Elements of Jamia Mosque (Group work)

Economic analysis of Tai Kwun (Group work)

CONS8124

Conservation

and Assessment Techniques

3.2 Built Fabric and Architectural Analysis

Instructors: PHILLIPS Steven Ray, CHUI Shing Kit Jack

This course introduces the techniques of documentation and assessment in heritage conservation. Students gained knowledge in the different types of historic buildings in Hong Kong. Through multiple site visit, they learned the construction, materials, and the technical challenges in conservation of these buildings. Local traditional building materials were introduced to the students, including basic principles of material science and construction techniques. Students also learned about building condition survey and the conservation principles to put defects right.

Western Market consists of three primary parts, the northern and southern end blocks and the central block. (Thorley, 1985, p.4)

The architectural design reflects the Edwardian style, which was popular during 1901 to 1910 in England. It showcases a harmonious blend of classical facades and well-organized layout, inspired from axial and symmetrical principles. The polychromatic effect is achieved by using a combination of red bricks and granite band on a granite base, as well as the application of “bandaged” brickwork to the corner towers. (Urban Renewal Authority)

CONS8223

Materials and Technologies in Conservation

The arcades on the first floor facing Morrison Street are adorned with intricately carved keystones and regular blocks that interrupted the arch, while magnificent granite arch spans over the main entrance, creating a decorative effect. (Urban Renewal Authority)

Instructors: PHILLIPS Steven Ray , CHUI Shing Kit Jack

Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

This course allows students to gain insights into scientific and construction principles used in conservation techniques. Students learned further assessment of the building condition, and the priority of remedial works. Building materials were categorized to discuss the methods of conservation. Through site visits and workshops, students gained hands-on experience in conservation. Methods and procedure of producing a conservation package of works were introduced to the students and they were trained to produce such a package on their own.

In response to local weather condition and materials available, a pitched roof with Chinese pan and roll tiles is used. The roof design blends local elements with the early Western styles in Hong Kong. (Urban Renewal Authority)

The building used load-bearing brick walls on all external faces and the internal sides of the two end blocks. Eight steel columns were strategically placed on the top of the ground floor slab to support the first floor and the roo of central block. The roof was constructed using steel trusses that extended from these columns to connect with the walls. (Thorley, 1985, p.4)

The initial structure of Western Market consisted of two main floors, each measuring approximately 1120 ㎡ In order to make use of its height, additional floors were constructed between the original floors in 1191 by the former LDC. Furthermore, to increase the accessibility, a section of the ceiling on the first floor was removed. It is important to note that the mezzanine floor was built separately from the original structural system in order to preserve and maintain its initial design and structure. (Urban Renewal Authority)

Western Market consists of three primary parts, the northern and southern end blocks and the central block.

The architectural design reflects the Edwardian style, which was popular during 1901 to 1910 in England. It showcases a harmonious blend of classical facades and well-organized layout, inspired from axial and symmetrical principles. The polychromatic effect is achieved by using a combination of red bricks and granite band on a granite base, as well as the application of “bandaged” brickwork to the corner towers. (Urban

Authority)

The arcades on the first floor facing Morrison Street are adorned with intricately carved keystones and regular blocks that interrupted the arch, while magnificent granite arch spans over the main entrance, creating a decorative effect. (Urban Renewal Authority)

In response to local weather condition and materials available, a pitched roof with Chinese pan and roll tiles is used. The roof design blends local elements with the early Western styles in Hong Kong. (Urban Renewal Authority)

CONS8103 Assignment 2 by HUANG Limiao 3036194558

3.2 Built Fabric and Architectural Analysis

(Thorley, 1985, p.4)

Renewal

Above: illustration from (Jianzhuyouren and 陳潤智 2013, p.60-61)

Below: picture of the façade facing Morrison Street, source from Zolima City Magazine

Above: illustration from (Jianzhuyouren and 陳潤智 2013, p.60-61)

Below: picture of the internal design, source from Zolima City Magazine

International Field Trip Vigan, Phillipines

In a significant global collaboration, the HKU MSc Conservation team of students and staff, joined international experts from UNESCO and ICOMOS, as well as the University of Northern Philippines (UNP), to safeguard the world's cultural heritage. This year's international field trip provided a platform for our students to apply their academic knowledge in a practical setting, contributing to the preservation of ancestral homes in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Vigan, Philippines.

In March 2024, the MSc Conservation team documented 15 ancestral homes in Vigan, a city that had suffered extensive damage from two powerful earthquakes in 2022. Their efforts were part of a larger initiative funded by the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund (HEF), which was set up to restore and protect historic structures in the city.

Under the leadership of Dr. Linda Shetabi, Director of MSc Conservation Programme, the team utilized advanced technology such as LIDAR scanners, drones, and HD digital cameras to document and record the condition of the damaged buildings. This work not only supported the restoration efforts but also contributed to the enhancement of the 1996 Toyota Foundation-funded research inventory of 120 ancestral houses.

The success of this collaboration paved the way for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two universities, underlining their mutual commitment to future cooperation in the conservation and documentation of world heritage.

Documenting ancestral homes in Vigan, Phillipines

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Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

MSc(SED)

理科碩士（可持續環境設計）課程

REN Chao

Associate Professor, Program Director (MSc(SED))

助理教授, 理科碩士（可持續環境設計）主任

CHEN Bin

Assistant Professor, Deputy Program Director (MSc(SED))

助理教授, 理科碩士（可持續環境設計）副主任

Globally increasing environmental awareness and concern, fast urbanization, and technological development have together resulted in an urgent need and opportunity to rethink how we could design, construct and manage our cities in a more efficient, effective and low-cost way.

The Master of Science (MSc) Programme in Sustainable Environmental Design has been offered since Fall 2022. Students enrolled in our taught- postgraduate degrees receive training in scientific research and technique skills and conduct independent research under the guidance of a team of renowned advisors. Candidates are expected to have an educational background in built environment disciplines (architecture, civil engineering, building science and technology, landscape architecture, urban studies, etc.) and/or fields such as environmental science, mathematics, computer science, business, management, and social sciences.

Our MScSED program has been designed with a view to combining specialist study and broad-based training in professional reflection, assessment, and research methods taught by world-class scholars and well-known professionals.

全球日益增強的環境意識和關注、快速的城市化和技術 發展，共同促使我們迫切需要並有機會重新思考如何以 更高效、更有效且低成本的方式設計、建設和管理我們 的城市。

我們自2022年秋季起開設了理科碩士（可持續環境設 計）課程。修讀我們授課式研究生學位的學生將接受科 學研究和技術技能的培訓，並在著名導師團隊的指導下

進行獨立研究。候選人預期具備建築環境相關學科（如 建築學、土木工程、建築科學與技術、景觀建築、城市研 究等）和/或相關領域（如環境科學、數學、計算機科學、商 業、管理及社會科學）的教育背景。

我們的MSc(SED)課程旨在結合專業研究與廣泛的專業 反思、評估及研究方法培訓，並由世界級學者和知名專 業人士教授。

Semester

Semester

Elective: Topical Study II inSustainable Design and Urban Development Dissertation Part 2 (Capstone experience) Dissertation Part 1 (Capstone experience)

City Risk and Resilience:Emerging

SEED6104

Dissertation Part I

(Capstone Experience)

Instructors: REN Chao, CHEN Bin, CHEN Guangzhao

Teaching Assistants: ZHANG Feiyang, CHEN Xidong, CHEN Ruijun, ZHOU Wangyizhang

This course introduces the background and development of green and sustainable development, examining the environmental impact of building activities on the ecosystem through concepts such as embodied energy, carbon dioxide emissions, energy life cycle assessment, and building environmental impact assessment. Tools and methods for assessing a building's environmental impact were critically evaluated and applied through case studies.

SEED6204

Dissertation Part II

(Capstone Experience)

Instructor: CHEN Bin, CHEN Guangzhao, ZHANG Xiaoxin

Teaching Assistants: ZHANG Feiyang, CHEN Xidong, CHEN Ruijun, ZHOU Wangyizhang

This course demonstrates and explains theories, scientific evidence, and design cases ion various types of urban climate and climate-responsive design. Students gained a systematic understanding of urban climate- and applied it through group presentations and individual essays.

SEED6101

Bioclimatic Building

Design

Instructor: LUO Zhiwen

Teaching Assistants: CHEN Ruijun, ZHOU Wangyizhang

This course introduces the principles of bioclimatic building design and its wider site and urban contexts, aiming to maximize human health benefits, including thermal comfort and productivity, while minimizing the energy needs for heating and cooling of buildings. The course detailed the effects of various architectural decisions on indoor climate and energy expenditure and these quantitative interactions between the effects of different design details were discussed extensively in class.

SEED6102

Innovation and Smart Technology for Sustainable Development

Instructors: CHEN Bin, ZHANG Xiaoxin

Teaching Assistants: LI Ziming, WANG Han, YU Wenbo, ZHOU Wangyizhang

Our planet faces pressing environmental challenges that affect both nature and human health, making it crucial to understand these changes across multiple scales. This course focuses on using geospatial data—such as remote sensing, social sensing, and crowdsourcing—to enhance students’ understanding of environmental changes and human-environment interactions. Many case studies were used to introduce geospatial datasets and spatial-temporal analysis models for research and planning. Students learned the skills of data collection, analysis, and visualization.

SEED6103

Environmental Sound Simulation and Performance Assessment Tools

Instructors: LAM Kin Che

Teaching Assistants: LI Yilun, SZETO Chloe

The course focuses on simulating and modeling environmental sound in urban contexts. It covers the basics of sound and noise, their sources, propagation, and impact on urban living. Students learned GISbased noise modeling techniques and conducted traffic noise modeling for urban neighborhoods. Soundscape design concepts were also introduced, requiring students to conduct sound walks and propose measures to improve the urban acoustic environment.

SEED6201

Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design

Instructors: AU Benny Pui Nang , LEUNG Chi Fung

Teaching Assistants: ZHOU Wangyizhang

The course introduces the background and development of green and sustainable development, examining the environmental impact of building activities on the ecosystem through concepts such as embodied energy, carbon dioxide emissions, energy life cycle assessment, and building environmental impact assessment. Tools and methods for assessing a building's environmental impact were critically evaluated and applied through case studies.

Assessing

Climate analysis by LU Yi

Noise Mapping (Group project)

SEED6202

City Risk and Resilience: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices

Instructor: YAMAGATA Yoshiki

Teaching Assistants: SZETO Chloe

The course explores sustainable future societies that balance the environment and health, focusing on aging and depopulating areas using smart technologies. It introduces urban climate change risk assessments and urban systems design tools, integrating Big Data and AI, using Yokohama as a test bed. Students developed innovative designs for sustainable cities, tested through discussions and field visits. The course emphasized BIM-based urban systems modeling for district-level sustainability, with insights from local government, developers, and LEED-ND experts.

SEED6203

Designing for a Changing Climate

Instructor: KATZSCHNER Lutz Frieder

Teaching Assistants: ZHOU Wangyizhang WANG Renfeng

The course demonstrates and explains theories, scientific evidence, and design cases on various types of urban climate and climate-responsive design. Students gained a systematic understanding of urban climate and applied it through group presentations and individual essays.

Connectivity mapping (Group project)

Electives + Interdisciplinary Courses

ARCH7305 Elective Horticulture and Design

Instructor: ROBINSON Ian

Focusing on the critical role of horticulture and arboriculture in landscape architecture, this course provides students with essential knowledge for informed design decisions. Students first explored botanical and horticultural principles, including the plant kingdom's hierarchy, physiological relationships, and environmental responses. They then learned techniques for plant multiplication, installation, and management of interiorscapes, green roofs, and walls. Additionally, the course covered site management concerning nutrition and pest control, grass selection for various uses, and essential contract documentation for landscape maintenance and management.

ARCH7307 Elective

Advanced Topics in Sustainability

Village Revitalisations in Asia: Critical Comparisons in Analysing Common Grounds and Future Trends

Instructor: MAK Wing Sze Vincci

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

In recent decades, it has been seen that village revitalizations have emerged in different parts of Asia with different forms, processes, and outcomes. This course examines case studies to identify common grounds in Asian cultures, social and economic histories, perspectives on nature, and concepts of rural living. Students conducted fieldwork at selected sites to explore correlations characterizing these revitalization projects and built informed projections for future rural development. Lectures and literature readings supported their studies, enhancing their understanding of the dynamics driving these initiatives.

ARCH7306 Elective Urban Arboriculture

Instructor: ROBINSON Ian

Urban arboriculture provides essential knowledge for managing trees in urban landscapes. It covers the benefits that trees offer to urban life and the legal obligations related to tree care. Students learned to select suitable trees based on characteristics and health, explored tree surveys and risk assessments through field examples, and studied transplanting considerations. The course addressed preservation techniques during construction and the management of urban woodlands, concluding with strategies for maintaining tree health and providing support systems in urban environments.

Elective

Research Seminar in Digital Media and Fabrication

Where the Wild Things Are

Students explored "Wild Things" in Hong Kong's urban landscape to uncover objects and structures mediating emotions, relationships, and identities. They documented and analyzed these objects using various digital tools. The seminar included in-class discussions, hands-on workshops, and peer reviews, enhancing participants’ visual communication skills and introducing them to the latest digital tools, such as close-range photogrammetry, 3-D LiDAR scanning with Reality Capture, virtual/augmented reality, and GenAI film production. The final outcome was a 2-minute short film of their journey through a digital twin.

ARCH7309

Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas

Tree pit sketching by KONG Ho Hin Howie

Analytical Collage by TANG Ziyu Jadyn

Unidetified Street Objects by TANG Chi Tat

ARCH7348 Elective

Case studies in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Galapagos APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Workshop

Instructor: ECHEVERRI Natalia

Co-instructors: ANDRADE Jaime López (University of San Francisco de Quito), YANG Yizhao (University of Oregon)

This course was part of the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Iinternational Workshop, where thirty- six students from three universities collaborated to explore the complex socio-ecological system in the Galapagos Islands. The archipelago's unique and fragile ecosystem faces challenges from rapidly expanding urban settlements driven by tourism. Through field trips, talks given by experts, and by living with locals, students gained a comprehensive understanding of the various issues affecting the islands. They explored topics related to water, food, and energy, and developed speculative proposals for the future of San Cristobal Island.

ARCH7349 Elective Chinese Landscape

Instructor: JIANG Bin Teaching Assistant: LIU Xueming

Criticall evalutating landscape and design in contemporary China, this course examines the socioeconomic, cultural, and political forces shaping its landscapes. Students began with an overview of key landscape issues amid urbanization and globalization, then explored various topics in depth, including urban public space regeneration, ecological crises, and inclusive design for children and seniors. Through readings, lectures, case studies, and discussions, they investigated contemporary landscape art, social justice, shrinking cities, and the influence of international landscape architects in China.

AFIC1003

On Agendas

The Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses (FICs) comprise a pair of mandatory (6-credits) courses for all first-year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Architecture. The first part introduced students to the challenge of creating a speculation to answer a specific research question through mixed-disciplinary group work. This began by asking students to consider an urban crisis triggered by the sudden loss of a crucial resource. With a mentor's guidance, students developed a professional-standard research strategy to address their chosen research question, aiming to help society prepare for such urban crises.

Methods

The second part introduced the steps typically involved in creating new academic knowledge and testing existing knowledge. It familiarized built environment students with the basic ideas necessary to become professional researchers, regardless of their background in design, science, social science, or the arts. The course helped students think more expertly about the questions discovered in the research problematizing and design exercise in AFIC1003.

Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas

AFIC1004 Faculty Interdisciplinary Course On

Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas

CCHU5001 / CCHU9001 Common Core course

Designs on the Future / (Online)

Instructor: PRYOR Mathew

Designs on the Future inspires students to envision sustainable living environments for the future. They explored the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of Hong Kong, examining issues related to population, urbanization, resource use, and human systems to understand what a sustainable future entails. The course offered opportunities to evaluate various media and strategies employed by advocates for sustainable practices in environmental and community contexts, fostering critical thinking about innovative approaches to sustainability.

CCHU9058 Common Core course

Nature in The City: beyond the Concrete Jungle

Instructor: COATES Gavin

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

This course examines the complex relationship between nature and urban environments, exploring how built infrastructure, cultural traditions, and the creative arts intersect with the natural world. Students investigated issues related to nature in the city and the historical interactions between human activity and the environment. They articulated contradictions and expectations in this relationship through written and visual forms, using metaphors and analogies to contextualize their understanding. The course emphasized developing illustrative skills to convey these insights effectively within their disciplinary studies.

CCHU9082 Common Core course

24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film

Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas

Films move at 24 images (or frames) per second, while the stories they convey move us emotionally. This course investigates films as transformative tools for thought, teaching students film criticism and methods to communicate powerful ideas through short films. By semester's end, students produced individual, Hong Kong-related short films using remediation. Drawing from international film productions, students developed a visual vocabulary and engaged in creative filmmaking. Through discussions, critical analysis, peer reviews, and final screenings, the course enhanced their visual communication skills and exposed them to various film production styles.

CCGL6002 Common Core course

Material Ecologies: Local Practices and Global Impacts

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne

Teaching Assistant: CHUNG How Yu Jonathan

Material Ecologies introduces students of diverse backgrounds to the issues surrounding material studies through a one-week intensive course. To offer a full scope on material production, sourcing, fabrication, and impact, students engaged in handson field trips around Hong Kong, attended guest lectures from leaders working on improving circular usage of resources in Hong Kong, and ultimately created their own material samples to showcase the potential of Hong Kong's local landscape materials.

SEED6303 Elective Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities

Instructor: WONG Kam Sing

Teaching Assistant: SZETO Chloe

This course provides an advanced introduction to public policies for protecting the natural environment, and ways to handle conflicts over the use of those policies, for example who has the authority to make decisions about them. The course introduces students to core concepts in environmental economics to familiarize them with the dilemmas and trade-offs that governments face in making decisions regarding the natural environment. It also aims to make students aware of a range of factors that need to be considered when making environmental policy.

CONS8109 Elective Cultural Landscape

Instructor: BRENNAN Bernard Nicholas

This course introduces the concept of cultural landscapes and its relevance to heritage conservation. It examines cultural landscapes as defined in multiple disciplines, such as cultural geography, environmental history, and landscape archaeology, as well as their practical implications within international heritage frameworks. Students learned to identify and assess different types of cultural landscapes and explore new ways of mapping landscape sites within the contexts of Hong Kong, Greater China, and East and Southeast Asia. The course also enabled students to address concerns for the protection of the natural environment and conceive strategies for achieving sustainable development through the conservation of cultural landscapes.

SEED6306 Elective Topical Study II in Sustainable Design and Urban Development

Instructor: WONG Kam Sing

Teaching Assistant: SZETO Chloe

The course provides a comprehensive introduction and hands-on practice in both fundamental and advanced geospatial data processing techniques. It introduced students to the essential elements, theories, and methods of geospatial data processing while helping them gain proficiency in widely used geospatial data processing software. Through relevant case studies, exercises, and group assignments, students learned how to collect, manage, and analyze geospatial data.

CCHU9048 Common Core course

The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment

Instructor: SHETABI Linda

The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment explores practices of urbanism across a range of contexts from antiquity to the present day. In doing so it allows students to develop insights into the social relations and human struggles that have been produced by, and which they continue to produce, particular types of built forms in different places over time. In the broadest sense, the course uses urbanism as a lens to understand the relationship between urban forms and the complex, multiple processes that constitute cities and their urban milieus.

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

STAFF + STUDENT

STAFF

ADJUNCT & PART TIME ACADEMIC STAFF

VALIN Ivan PRYOR Mathew

JIANG Bin

REN Chao

CHEN Bin

KELLY Ashley Scott

LU Xiaoxuan

SHU Changxue

COATES Gavin

ECHEVERRI Natalia

MAK Wing Sze Vincci

TRUMPF Susanne

CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

ETTEL Nikolas

SHETABI Linda

FAN Man Si Phoebe

CHEN Guangzhao

CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

SIU Virginia K.W.

HO Michelle C

LIU Olly Yapeng

SZETO Chloe

TSUI Ho Yin Tony

ZHOU Wangyizhang

CHU Cecilia

Distinguished Fellow

WONG Kam Sing

Adjunct Professor

KATZSCHNER Lutz Frieder

LAM Kin Che

YAMAGATA Yoshiki

Adjunct Associate Professor

AU Pui Nang Benny

CHANG Ping Hung Wallace

KEHRER Jutta

LEUNG Chi Fung

LEUNG Man Kit

Adjunct Assistant Professor

CHAN Pak Wing Eric

CHAN Yin Lun Jeremy

CHUA Mark Hansley

GAO Kai

HAU Billy Chi Hang

WANG Ting

ZHANG Xiaoxin

Adjunct Lecturer

BRENNAN Bernard

CHANG Soowon

CHEN Chen

CHUI Chui Shing Kit Jack

DECAUDIN Maxime Cedric

GUO Boya

HILGEFORT Jason

JAN Brian

Visiting Professor Visiting Lecturer

LUO Zhi Wen Vincent

KOKORA Michael NG Sylvia

PHILLIPS Steven Ray

ROBINSON James Ian

SHINJI Wataru

SALADINO Nicola

WILSON Barry

WU Tsan Sum Roger

UNAKUL Montira

Master of Landscape Architecture MLA Year 2

CHAN King Yeung

CHEN Xinyi

CHU Kunyuan

CHUNG Pui Yu, Ada

HE Chengrong

HO Dai Rong Heather

HO Po Yu

HU Haoran

HUI Sin Yee

KONG Ho Hin

LAI Tsz Kwan

LAM Esther Yuen Ching

LEUNG Hoi Kiu

LEUNG Tsz Long

LIU Jiani

LU Tong

MA Duo

O'DELL Bradley David

PAN Yichang

QI Yuan

QIU Xinyun

SHAO Yuqin

Master of Landscape Architecture MLA Year 1

AU Chi Fung Adrian

CHEN Zhihua

KWOK Sin Yan

LEONG On Ian

LI Huanyang

LI Sze Yin

LO Lung Ha

OUYANG Mingyue

TANG Ziyu

WANG Jingyao

XIE Haocheng

ZHANG Wanting

ZHOU Hua

CHEN Tong

DU Jiani

HUI Chun To

LI Pak Wah

LI Ziyuan

LIM Wing Kwan

NG Andy

SHEN Junxian

SUN Xiaofei

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture PDLA

CHAN Huggins

FONG Kwan Kiu

HO Grace Yan Yu

LAN Xingyi

LI Jianbiao

LO Chui Sim

LO Fung Yee

PU Yujing

WANG Ziyuan

WONG Philip King Hei

ZHAO Chenyue

SHI Siyuan

TANG Chi Tat

TANG Haoran

TANG Shiyi

WANG Guoyi

WANG Pengtao

WANG Xiaoqi

WANG Xiaoyu

WANG Xinyi

XIANG Linyu

XU Ao

XU Maoyang

XU Shuying

YANG Zihan

YU Fengzhu

ZHANG Chaoying

ZHANG Ludan

ZHONG Qiuxuan

ZHOU Jian

ZHOU Jiaxuan

ZHU Junyan

WONG Lok Fan

YANG Yirui

ZHANG Wenyu

ZHANG Yandan

BAN Han

CHENG Tsz Ho

CHU Long Yin

HUANG Xinyi

LI Yumeng

LU Ling

MAK Kai Fung

WANG Han

WANG Xiangyi

WONG Wai Tung Augustine

WU Geyu

YU Keying

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies BA(LS)

Year 1

CHING Hau Sik Monique

HISANO Aika

HO Athena

HO Tsz Hei

HUNG Tsz Hin

LAM Kei Ching

LAM Wing Tung

LAU Sin Ting

LIEM Tsz Hei

MOU Hei Yuen Stephen

SABUROVA Polina

SHEK Hiu Yan

SINGCULAN Gwyneth

Tajanlangit

SO Ching Lam

WONG Sze Yui

YAN Chi Hong

Year 2

CHAN Yik Yu

CHIU Chun Yin Isaac

CHONG Hoi Ching

FUNG Hok Him

GU Dian

HE Lok Yiu

HUI Jaden Tatsuya

HUI Koon Kai

HUI Yu Yuen

KWOK Hau Yi

KWOK Sau Lok

LOK Shuet Ying Cherie

SZE Yuen Tung

WONG Chui Ting

WONG Po Mun

Year 3

CHENG Sum Yu Yannie

CHEUNG Peggy

CHUNG Pui Shan

GUO Jingyang

KU Raymond Man Yim

LAI Man Ching

LAU Ka Yee

LAW Man Ying Marita

LEUNG Hoi Ting

LEUNG Lok Yin Marcus

LEW Victor Jorge

LIU Jiali

LO Lai Yin

MIYAKE Yuzuka

MOON Joonseong

WEI Ka Ting

WONG Hei Lui, Helen

WU Fan

XIONG Yuchen

YAN Jiayan

YAO Renyue

Year 4

CHEN Apple

CO Sam Wendell Chen

KUAN Pui Shan

LAM Yi Ham

LAW Vanessa Lok Tung

LEE Jinyoung

TSUI Tsz Shan

WONG Hei Yuet Anna

WU Yayun Dancy

Master of Science in Conservation MSc(Cons)

GAO Yiqian

HUANG Limiao

LIU Huanyi

WUN Sze Chun

CHEN Jiayu

CHEN Yintong

ZHANG Lanyu

ZHU Yu

CHENG Xuan

HE Xiansen

JI Weile

YAN Mengshi

JIAN Wanling

LI Yicheng

WANG Keyue

ZHONG Xianyi

CHUNG Keng Chin

LAU Yan Tung

TAN Huiwen

WANG Tsun Ming

CAO Keli

LI Binyue

LI Penghao

YANG Ruxi

Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design MSc(SED)

BAO Shutong

CHEN Jingdan

GONG Yiru

GUO Jiayi

HU Qimei

JIANG Tianyilan

LI Tingxuan

LIU Qi Nuo

LIU Qingqing

LIU Xinyuan

LU Yi

LUO Yanqi

PAN Daqi

SHAO Qiang

SHU Yulong

SONG Peng

XING Dianchen

XU Yaqi

YIN Xuewen

YUAN Yiming

ZHANG Xinyue

ZHU Hengjun

ZHU Zhengyi

ZHAO Shihui

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

PhD Students

WANG Han

LI Ziming

WANG Chuzhen

LU Huan

QIAO Lin

LI Jiali

LIU Xueming

SATTAYANURAK Kanisa

WANG Renfeng

LI Yilun

CHEN Xinhui

ZENG Wenxin

NON-ACADEMIC STAFF

Administrative Assistant

Academic Programme Officer (BA(LS), PDLA, MLA)

Academic Programme Officer (MSc(Cons), MSc(SED))

Project Officer (Staff grants)

Office Attendant

LO Mei Ling Christine LEUNG Wing Man Athena

CHEUNG Cho Ho Tony

LAI Yuen Chun Spandy

LAM Mei Mei May

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Editor in Chief: FAN Man Si Phoebe

Editor: TANG Chi Tat

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Cover design: LAM Anthony, FAN Man Si Phoebe, TANG Chi Tat

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