HKU Landscape Yearbook 2023-2024

DIVISION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2023-24 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

年學園香 鑑部境港 二二 〇〇 設 建 大 二二 四三 計 築 學

Exploring native woodland regeneration of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

目 錄

Table of Contents

I

INTRODUCTION

V

Landscape Systems ..................................................................................................................................138 Landscape Technologies and Techniques ............................................................................................138 Landscape Technology I .......................................................................................................................139 Landscape Technology II .......................................................................................................................139 Landscape Technology III .......................................................................................................................140 Landscape Architectural Practice ...........................................................................................................140

Introduction to the Division .................................................................................................................... 10

II

LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIOS Master of Landscape Architecture - MLA ......................................................................................... 14 Landscape Thesis ..................................................................................................................................... 18 Studio I ...................................................................................................................................................... 62 Studio IIA ................................................................................................................................................. 66 Studio IIB ................................................................................................................................................. 72 Studio IIIA ................................................................................................................................................. 78 Studio IIIB .................................................................................................................................................. 80 Studio IIIC .................................................................................................................................................. 82 Studio IIID .................................................................................................................................................. 84 Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture - PDLA ............................................................ 90 Foundation Studio I .................................................................................................................................. 92 Foundation Studio II ................................................................................................................................. 94 Landscape Architecture Intensive .......................................................................................................... 96

VI

PLANTING + ECOLOGY

VII

REPRESENTATION + MEDIA Landscape Representation I ..................................................................................................................130 Landscape Representation II ..................................................................................................................130 Landscape Representation III ..................................................................................................................131 Landscape Media ..................................................................................................................................131 Landscape Media I ..................................................................................................................................132 Landscape Media II ..................................................................................................................................132

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CONSERVATION STUDIOS + LECTURE COURSES Master of Science in Conservation - MSc(Cons) ..............................................................................152 Thesis .........................................................................................................................................................156 Studio: Design for Conservation ............................................................................................................158 Studio: Conservation Planning and Management ...............................................................................158 Lecture courses ........................................................................................................................................160

VIII SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN STUDIOS + LECTURE COURSES Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design - MSc(SED) ........................................168 Studio: Dissertation Part II .......................................................................................................................170 Studio: Dissertation Part I .......................................................................................................................170 Lecture courses ........................................................................................................................................172

Ecology and Sustainability ......................................................................................................................124 Landscape Plants and Ecology I ............................................................................................................124 Landscape Plants and Ecology II ............................................................................................................125

IV

HISTORY + THEORY Histories of Landscape .............................................................................................................................144 Landscape History and Theory I ...........................................................................................................144 Landscape History and Theory II ...........................................................................................................146 Landscape History and Theory III ...........................................................................................................146 Landscape History and Theory IV ...........................................................................................................147 Thesis Prep ...............................................................................................................................................147

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studios - BA(LS) .................................................................................102 Studio VI ....................................................................................................................................................104 Studio I ....................................................................................................................................................110 Studio II ....................................................................................................................................................112 Studio III ....................................................................................................................................................114 Studio IV ....................................................................................................................................................116 Studio V ....................................................................................................................................................118

III

TECHNOLOGY + PRACTICE

IX

ELECTIVES + INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSES .........178

X

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE​ ..........................................................................190

XI

STAFF + STUDENT .....................................................................................................196

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介 紹

Introduction

I Introduction

I Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVISION 學部介紹 VALIN Ivan Head, Division of Landscape Architecture 主任, 園境建築學部

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。

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

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。

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.

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Exploring native woodland regeneration of Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

園 境 碩 士

Master of Landscape Architecture

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MLA

SYLLABUS 課程大綱

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

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。

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.

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。

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.

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YEAR 1 Fall Semester

YEAR 2 Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Spring Semester

Studio I

Studio II

Studio III

Thesis

Landscape Media

Landscape Plants and Ecology I

Landscape Plants and Ecology II

Landscape Architectural Practice

Landscape Technology I

Landscape Technology II

Thesis Prep.

Elective

Landscape History and Theory I

Landscape History and Theory II

Elective

Elective

15

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 Final Thesis Review panel discussion

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.

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

stops water infiltration to river

Flood

Intensify waterlogging

In-situ land exchange “For sites planned for private development, the Government allows in-situ land exchange applications from land owners subject to certain conditions, which could save the need for the Government to resume, clear and form land, as well as the subsequent tender for land disposal.”

Concrete lining

Flatten the river bed and trim the embankment to create a U-shaped or trapezoidal channel

Straighten, widen and deepen the river

Non-Development Clearance

Idle farmlands

Land hoarding

Construction works

Evacuation and clearance

Displacement

Persuasion to accept clearance

Landslip Prevention and Mitigation Programme Government man-made slope

Displacement

Natural slope

PRIVATE LAND

Warning sign placed by CEDD

Grasscrete

Change of crops stops water infiltration from river

2000s

Drop in underground water

Livelihood

2020s Before 2000s

Section AA’

0

0.9m

Landslip Prevention and Mitigation Programme

Landslide

Promised slope improvements works

Refused slope improvements works

2023.09 Retaining wall failure

Masonry retaining wall

Destabilizing Expertise

From 2000s

Section CC’ 0

1.8m

Slope maintenance standards and guidelines

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Idle terrace farmlands

Sewage discharge

Degraded farmland

2010s

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Removal of farmland and trees

Displacement

Weeds and trashes

Degraded river habitat

Channelization

0.9m

1.8m

Slope maintenance within squatter settlements

Regular inspections

Evacuation and clearance

Routine maintenance works

“There’re only a few households in the area.”

Displacement

Improve the slopes under the Preventive Maintenance Programme

Shotcrete surface

2023.12 7/1997

Landslide

24-hour year-round emergency service for repair works mainly for landslides

6/2021

2000

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

1: 3 :

Chunam surface GOVERNMENT LAND

Chunam surface 1:5

200

20

Cement

Hydrated lime

Chunam surface

Non-organic soil

Unattended maintenance

NO OCCUPATION, DUMPING, EXCAVATION AND CULTIVATION OFFENDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE, TSUEN WAN AND KWAI TSING TEL: 24021164

Shotcrete surface 1:5

2000

Vegetated surface 1:5

Thick shotcrete with 50x50x2.7(DIA.) mesh reinforcement

The mixture is applied in two layers to form an impermeable surface

5500

Increased landslide threat

Non-biodegradable erosion control mat 80x60x2.2(DIA.) Galvanized and PVC coated wire mesh

Vegetated surface

25 25

GOVERNMENT LAND NO OCCUPATION, DUMPING, EXCAVATION AND CULTIVATION OFFENDERS WILL BE PROSECUTED DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE, TSUEN WAN AND KWAI TSING TEL: 24021164

Fixing pins at 500 c/c 75

1500

4/2009

3/2024 (Site visit)

Concrete retaining wall

300 min.

Student: HUI Sin Yee Jun Thesis Advisor: KELLY Ashley Scott

Unless specified, all dimensions are in mm.

Section BB’

ng

Tu

0.9m

Ri

1.8m

9/1997 6/2012

OZP amendment: GB to R(C)

Tun gR iver

? 7/1997 12/2019

? ?

g River

Channel

Natural Ng

River

0.9m

OZP amendment: GB to R(A)

Ng Tun

Channelization

Tung ized Ng

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

Section DD’ 0

1.8m

ver

1/2018 7/1997 6/2021

?

Idle terrace farmlands

A

C

?

1/2018

From 2000s

C’

Idle farmlands

A’

9/2023

LandsD promised slope improvement works

10/2023

OZP amendment gazetted

11/2023

LandsD refused slope improvement works

12/2023

LandsD cleared the squatter structure

9/1997 7/2014

Landslide

B

D

Removal of farmland and trees

Construction works

9/1997 9/2006

Evacuation and clearance

D’

B’

4/2009 3/2024 (Site visit) ?

Change of crops

2000s

2010s

2020s

Surface treatment of government-managed artificial slopes

1998

2000

18m

Chunam

2001

Kon Hang AOI

36m

Fanling North 粉嶺北

2002

2003

Ping Che/ Ta Kwu Ling 坪�/ 打鼓嶺 San Tin/ Lok Ma Chau 新田/ 落馬洲 Yuen Long South 元朗南 Kam Tin South 錦田南

2009

2010

2011

Shotcrete

Vegetation

Bare soil

Shek Lei Hang Village

18m

2012

2013

2014

AOI

0

2015

2016

2017

Phase 2 Phase 2

First Phase Development of the New Territories North - San Tin / Lok Ma Chau Development Node - Investigation OZP. S/YL-TYST/14 & S/YL-TT/18 Gazetted

OZP. S/YL-KTS/13 Gazetted

OZP. S/YL-KTS/15 Gazetted

Postponed

unknown end

Phase 1

Phase - Public Housing Developments

Opposed Phase 1

Village Relocation

Private Housing

Opposed

3

Phase 1

Phase 2

S/TM-SKW/13 Gazetted OZP. S/TP/28 Gazetted OZP. S/MOS/24 Gazetted (Item G Rejected)

Opposed

OZP. S/TW/35 Gazetted OZP. S/TM/18 Gazetted Planning and Engineering Study for the Public Housing Site and Yuen Long Industrial Estate Extension at Wang Chau 1

OZP. S/YL-PS/16 Gazetted

Phase 1 OZP. S/YL-TYST/12 Gazetted

Opposed

2

3

OZP. S/TM/35 Gazetted

4

Postponed OZP. S/TY/32 Gazetted OZP. S/FSS/26 Gazetted OZP. S/KC/32 Gazetted

Stages of Green Belt Review

Incidents

Town Planning Board Procedures

1 “GB areas in the NT that are devegetated, deserted/ formed”

1 Ex-gratia compensation and rehousing arrangements for squatter occupants revised 2 Northern Metropolis proposed in Policy Address

2 “GB sites in the fringe of built-up areas close to existing urban areas and new towns” 3 “GB on steeper slopes as well as those located farther away from built-up areas” 4 Review suspended

Land Resumption Proposed by the Government

Pre-clearance Survey

Discussed in District Councils

Bills Passed in the LegCo

Outline Development Plan (ODP) Posted

1998

2000

2001

2002

2003

0

120m

OZP. S/K11/31 Gazetted Feasibility Study

3 Town Planning Board procedures and guidelines streamlined to “compress development timetables”

2007

OZP. S/K15/27 Gazetted

Feasibility Study

OZP. S/K12/18 Gazetted Draft OZP. S/H9/19

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Wang Chau Planning and Design Competition, 2017

240m

Five entries were made public:

Fanling North OZP No. S/FLN/2 gazetted on 2015.06.19 Fanling North OZP No. S/FLN/4 gazetted on 2023.09.29

Temporary structure Water body

0

Channelized river (Drainage Services Department) 6

120m

Food

Mitigation Conservation

Village

Project Team Walking Path Hiking Trail Jogging Trail Cycle Track Glade River Play Area Lotus Pond Farmland Agricultural Terrace Rooftop Farm Fish Pond Community Market Repair Brownfield Rain Garden Nullah Regeneration Valuable Trees Green Belt Watercourses from hill Wind Corridor View Corridor In-situ Village Relocation Resettled in public housings History Center

Recreation

9 Squatter huts

240m

Eddie Chu

Edward Yiu

*Position in 2017

LegCo Member Activist

LegCo Member Former Professor

Hendrik Tieben

Paul Chan

Landscape Graduate

7

1 8

Green Belt

2

Conservation Area Country Park/ Special Areas (AFCD)

Paul Zimmerman Wallace Chang

Associate Professor Department Head Architecture, CUHK Design & Environment, THEi

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10 11

Councillor Southern District

12

1 2 6

4

Archi. & Landscape Graduate

8

Place description Fu Tei Au Tsuen The only non-indigenous squatter settlement who receives CCO funding

9

4

6

9

10

6

River Indus Pumping Station To Tai Lam Chung and Plover Cove Reservoir etc.

River Indus/ Ng Tung River Channelized since 2002 to alleviate flooding

8

Compensational Wetland Meanders from the old Ng Tung River

9

Wa Shan Hillfire-prone area

5 AOI

4

6

1 2

“Let the End-users Create a Community for their own”

1

2

4

5

6

# Local food production & dispersal # Stop development from intruding the Kai Shan (CA)

7

6

1 4

7 2 5

“Evolutionary Wang Chau” # Access to the view of Kai Shan # A buffer between the mountain & high-rises 4

Jogging trail

4

6 6

“Rural-urban As One”

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Phase 2

Ma Shi Po inhabitants held exhibition in their homes

Comment period

2009

A Ma Shi Po inhabitant filed lawsuit against Development Bureau OZP. S/FLN/4 Gazetted

2015

2019

2020

2021

2022

Retired Architect

Uninformed land resumption in Ma Shi Po Phase 1

OZP. S/FLN/2 Gazetted

# Preservation of local agriculture/ aquaculture culture # Habitat for migratory birds

0m 36

RepreProtests against the sentation northeast New Territories period development proposal

0m 18

Inhabitants found out the unannounced meeting for Fanling’s residents North East New Territories New Development Areas Planning and Engineering Study

1

2

3

4

3

Kai Shan (髻山)

19

Yuen Long Industrial Estate

Green belt

GB cum farmland

4 5

2023

2024 Farmland

18

2

1

5

Water bodies

MSc(SED)

Shek Wu San Tsuen Ma Shi Po Agriculture remains active

3

4

10

4

4 5

7

3

3

# Self-sustaining food production # Improve nullah through constructed wetland

9

Architect & Archi. Graduate

Tin Ping Shan Tsuen

2

Architect & Designer

Wa Shan Tsuen

1

7

12 8

Cemeteries (LUHK 2018)

10

3

11

“Vitality Patch”

Woodland (LUHK 2018)

3

Associate Professor Architecture, HKU 5

# Mitigate urban heat island effect # Expand habitat for animals in the Kai Shan

Agriculture Land (LUHK 2018)

2

Wang Chau Green Belt Dev. Concern Group

“Wang Chau 6 Villages”

Ng Tung River before channelization

1

2024

Organizers

A Kung Ngam Village 阿公岩村

Draft OZP. S/ST/37

Preliminary Study

Judges

Ngau Chi Wan Village 牛池灣村

Public Housing

West of Former Fo Tan Resettlement Area 前火炭平房區西邊

Chuk Yuen United Village 竹園聯合村

unknown end

Phase 2

2

1

Shek Lei Hang Village 石梨坑村

Cha Kwo Ling Village 茶果嶺村

2024

Planning and Engineering Study for NTN New Town and Man Kam To - Investigation

Planning and Engineering Study for Housing Sites in Yuen Long South

Public Housing

Individual Development Plan (New Territories)

2023

OZP. S/FLN/4 Gazetted

Preliminary Feasibility Study on Developing the New Territories North

(Housing Authority)

Tan Kwai Tsuen 丹桂村 Tseng Tau Sheung Tsuen 井頭上村 Liu To Village 寮肚村

2022 unknown end

OZP. S/KTN/4 Gazetted

Engineering Feasibility Study for the Establishment of an Agricultural Park

Siu Lam San Tsuen 小欖新村

South of Ling Shan Village 靈山村南邊

2021 Phase 1

18m

Phase 1

OZP. S/TP/26 Gazetted

Wang Chau Villages 橫洲三村

2020

9m

Phase 1

Kon Hang 乾坑

Tsz Tin Tsuen 紫田村

2019

OZP. S/HSK/2 Gazetted

0

OZP. S/FLN/2 Gazetted Postponed

Preliminary Studies of GuangzhouShenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link

Hon Man Upper Village 漢民上村

2018

AOI

OZP. S/KTN/2 Gazetted

Tsiu Keng Agricultural Park 蕉徑農業園

Ma On Shan Village 馬鞍山村 (半村)

Ma On Shan Village

18m

Hung Shui Kiu New Development Area Planning and Engineering Study

North East New Territories New Development Areas Planning and Engineering Study

Choi Yuen Village 菜園村

Ma Wo 馬窩

9m

0

MSc(SED)

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

2008

9m

Postponed

Fanling North New Development Area

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.

2007

0

Large-scale Development Plan

Kwu Tung North 古洞北

(Housing Society)

dominant ecological expertise is highly reductive and that hazard mitigation measures negatively impact inhabitants’ livelihoods.

0

Hung Shui Kiu/ Ha Tsuen 洪水橋/ 厦村

Individual (Non-NT)

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.

AOI

OZP amendment: GB to R(B)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

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

Fanling North NDA

? 9/1997 6/2021

?

9/1997 3/2004

?

R(A)

Before 2000s

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

BA(LS)

Ng

0

Gazetted

r al Natu

BA(LS)

ural

Nat

Before OZP amendment was gazetted

II Landscape Design Studios

3.6km

0

1.8km

Fanling North

3.6km San Tin/ Lok Ma Chau

South of Ling Shan Village

Wang Chau

South of Ling Shan Village

Tsiu Keng Agricultural Park

Wang Chau Ma Wo

Hung Shui Kiu/ Ha Tsuen

Choi Yuen Village

Hung Shui Kiu/ Ha Tsuen

Ma Wo

Choi Yuen Village Kon Hang

Tan Kwai Tsuen Yuen Long South Tze Tin Tsuen

Tze Tin Tsuen

fruiting period depends on species wet season

Jan

Collection Sowing

Ma On Shan Village

Collection Sowing

fruiting period depends on species wet season

Dec

Jan

Seed collection

fruiting

Collection Sowing

wet season

Jan

Dec

Acorus spp.

Eriocaulon spp.

Acorus spp.

Dec

Take cutting Planting

fruiting wet season

Jan

Gnetum luofuense

flowering

Take cutting Planting

wet season

Jan

Dec

Targeted tree care on Targeted tree care on potential OVT potential OVT

Diospyros vaccinioides

Artocarpus hypargyreus

Dec

Mulching Pruning(Dl)

flowering wet season

Jan

Existing fruit tree

Seed collection

Acacia confusa

Existing fruit tree

Seed sowing

Seed sowing

Mulching Pruning(Dl) Dec

Take cuttings

Litchi Artocarpus chinensisheterophyllus

Dimocarpus longan (Dl)

Litchi chinensis

Cinnamomum camphora

Ficus Bombax microcarpa ceiba

Cinnamomum camphora

Ficus microcarpa

Dec

Arborist from env. NGOs

Take cuttings

Dimocarpus longan (Dl)

Spring flowering

Jan

Acacia confusa

Arborist from env. NGOs

Seed sowing Plant cuttings in soil

Plant cuttings in soil Regular treegrow inspection

grow

Existing riparian plants grow

Spring flowering

Jan

Dec

Long-established trees within settlements include Long-established trees within settlements include

Artocarpus heterophyllus

Bombax ceiba

Seed collection

Existing riparian plants

Diospyros vaccinioides

Artocarpus hypargyreus

Eriocaulon spp.

Seed collection

Seed sowing

Nurture threatenedNurture species threatened species in the understory in the understory

Gnetum luofuense

Tools

Polygonum spp.

Tools

Ludwigia spp.

Tools

Polygonum spp.

Hydrocotyle spp.

A native shrub & tree of conservation interestA native shrub & tree of conservation interest

A native climbing plant of conservation interestA native climbing plant of conservation interest

Stitch a structure forStitch a structure for near-threatened species near-threatened species

Ludwigia spp.

Tools

Hydrocotyle spp.

grow

grow

Kon Hang

Tan Kwai Tsuen Yuen Long South Kam Tin South

Tools

Tools

Fanling North

San Tin/ Lok Ma Chau

Tsiu Keng Agricultural Park

Collection Sowing

Ecological improvement

1.8km

Ping Che/ Ta Kwu Ling

Kwu Tung North

Ecological improvement

0

Ping Che/ Ta Kwu Ling

Kwu Tung North

Northern Metropolis

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Hong Kong 1:60000@A0 Hong Kong 1:60000@A0

Northern Metropolis

Tools

Typical plants found on local stream banks include: Typical plants found on local stream banks include:

Re-vegetate riparianRe-vegetate riparian obscures human disturbance obscures human disturbance

Non-indigenous Squatter Settlements in Conflictsin Conflicts Non-indigenous Squatter Settlements Spatial Distribution Spatial Distribution

Tools

II Landscape Design Studios

Pruning Regular tree inspection (assisted)

Mulching

Pruning (assisted)

Mulching

grow

Ma On Shan Village

Kam Tin South West of Former Fo Tan Resettlement Area West of Former Fo Tan Resettlement Area

Tseng Tau Sheung Tsuen

Tseng Tau Sheung Tsuen

0 Hon Man Upper Village

Shek Lei Hang Village

45cm

90cm

0

45cm

Woodland

90cm

Orchard/ cultivated field Woodland

Orchard/ cultivated field

Shek Lei Hang Village

Liu To Village

Liu To Village Chuk Yuen United Village

Chuk Yuen United Village

Ngau Chi Wan Village

+

Grow plants to treat Grow plants to treat contaminated soil contaminated soil

+

+

Tools

Tools

Mikania micrantha

Lantana camara

Leucaena Mikania leucocephalamicrantha

Lantana camara

Corn

Leucaena leucocephala

Bean

Pumpkin

Corn

Bean

Pumpkin

Allelopathic trees found within settlements include Allelopathic trees found within settlements include

Collection +Sowing

+

(includes non-households like temporary industrial structures)

Low

Tomato

Mikania Leucaena

Density of Temporary Structure (includes non-households like temporary industrial structures) High Low

High

flowering

Mikania Leucaena

flowering

Jan

A Kung Ngam Village

Basil

Tomato

flowering flowering

Dec

Acacia confusa Dec

Jan

Casuarina equisetifolia

Eucalyptus spp.

Acacia

Casuarina equisetifolia

confusa

Eucalyptus spp.

Country Parks and Special Areas managed by AFCDCountry Parks and Special Areas managed by AFCD Country Park (CP)

Includes: -crop residues -tree leaves -bark chips -grasses

Country Park (CP)

Conservation Area (CA)

Conservation Area (CA)

Coastal Protection Area (CPA) Sites of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI)

Coastal Protection Area (CPA) Sites of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI)

Green Belt (GB)

Green Belt (GB)

Agriculture (AGR)

Agriculture (AGR)

Village Type Development (V)

Village Type Development (V)

uproot

Manual pulling

Prevent dispersal Manualseed pulling

Collect alleloPrevent seed dispersal pathic leaves

Clean-up

Companion planting Clean-up Collect allelopathic leaves

Dump

Large-scale Development Plan announced by the Government

Large-scale Development Plan announced by the Government

Squatter Settlements impacted by Large-scale Development Plan (Cat. 1)

Squatter Settlements impacted by Large-scale Development Plan (Cat. 1)

Squatter Settlements impacted by Individual Development Plan (Cat. 2A)

Squatter Settlements impacted by Individual Development Plan (Cat. 2A)

Squatter Settlements impacted by Individual Development Plan (Cat. 2B)

uproot

to inhibit the growth of

Covered by hay/straw

Mulching

Companion planting

earthworm millipede slug

Covered by hay/straw

Mulching

Cyperus involucratus (Ci)

Collection Sowing

Phragmites australis

Typha Cyperus angustifolia involucratus (Ci)

Phragmites australis

Plants that extract pollutants (heavy metal) include Plants that extract pollutants (heavy metal) include

Construction site

Leaked wastewater Cynodon dactylon

Typha angustifolia

Chrysopogon zizanioides

Helianthus Cynodon annuus dactylon

Chrysopogon zizanioides

Helianthus annuus

fruiting (Ci) wet season

Dec

Seed collection

Includes: -crop residues -tree leaves -bark chips -grasses

earthworm millipede slug

Leaked wastewater

Jan

Dec

Basil

Water regulation

Density of Temporary Structure

A Kung Ngam Village

fruiting (Ci) wet season

Jan

Cha Kwo Ling Village

Construction site

Wetland plants that extract pollutants include

+

Ngau Chi Wan Village

Cha Kwo Ling Village

Wetland plants that extract pollutants include

Crop combinations in companion planting includeCrop combinations in companion planting include

Farming practices to Farming practices to embrace ecosystem embrace ecosystem

Tools

Invasive plants found within settlements include Invasive plants found within settlements include

Inhibit invasion to Inhibit invasion to make room for diversity make room for diversity

Water regulation

Siu Lam San Tsuen

Tools

Siu Lam San Tsuen

Hon Man Upper Village

Seed collection

Seed sowing

Seed sowing

Seed sowing

grow

Seed sowing

grow

grow

grow

Dump

to inhibit the growth of

Active

Squatter Settlements impacted by Individual Development Plan (Cat. 2B)

Fallow

Active

0

Fallow

45cm

90cm

0

45cm

90cm

Conceptual Boundary of the Northern Metropolis Conceptual Boundary of the Northern Metropolis announced in 2021 announced in 2021

14%

Earthwork

Percentage of adverse responses Percentage of adverse responses

Number undisclosed

Number undisclosed

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Recharge trench

Recharge trench

Enclosed

Peripheral Enclosed

Fragmented

Peripheral

Open Fragmented

47

710

South of Ling Shan Village

Shek South of Lei LingHang Shan Village Village

Tseng Sheung Shek Tau Lei Hang Tsuen Village

TsengKon TauHang Sheung Tsuen

2

25

58

811

Dec

Jan

Coring Seed collection

from existing grasses

from existing grasses

from existing grasses

from existing grasses

Seed sowing

Seed sowing

Seed sowing

Seed collection

Seed sowing

grow

Fallow

Tsz Tin Tsuen

Hon Man Upper Tsz Tin Tsuen Village

HonWang Man Chau Upper Villages Village

3

36

69

Online Outlet

Siu Lam San Tsuen Choi Yuen Village

Liu ToChau Village Wang Villages

West Former Liu ToofVillage Fo Tan Resettlement Area 12

912

SiuTan LamKwai SanTsuen Tsuen

Ma Wo Tan Kwai Tsuen

West of Former Fo Tan Resettlement Area

flowering(Bj)

Take cutting Planting

wet season

Jan

Dec

Green Belt Conservation Area

Place woody debris

functions include: -stop erosion -slow stream flow -create habitat

functions include: -stop erosion -slow stream flow -create habitat

2

Student

Bischofia javanica (Bj)

Orthosiphon aristatus

Dec

from plants within settlements

Glochidion zeylanicum

Take cuttings Seed collection frequently found within settlements Seed sowing

Seed sowing

A barrier to stop the creeping grass (e.g. brick)

Morus Houttuynia alba cordata

Dimocarpus Orthosiphon longan aristatus

Existing tree from plants within settlements

Diospyros Morus vaccinioides alba

Artocarpus Dimocarpus hypargyreus longan

Diospyros vaccinioides

Artocarpus hypargyreus

Seed collection frequently found within settlements

Existing tree

Take cuttings

Plant cuttings in soil

Plant cuttings in soil grow

grow

grow

Place woody sediment traps

spread

A barrier to stop the creeping grass (e.g. brick)

grow

Water table

0

45cm

90cm

0

45cm

Water table

Active

90cm

Inactive

Active

Inactive

3 2

Conclusion

“Preliminary tree survey has been“Preliminary conducted and is no and treethere survey hasOld been conducted and there is no Old and Planning Department Valuable Trees identified within theValuable representation sites.” within the representation sites.”

Trees identified (PlanD)

0

Planning Department (PlanD)

Conclusion

Departments’ reading Maintain slope with settlement-grown materials Departments’ reading Maintain slope with settlement-grown materials

41

52 Enclosed

63

74

85

Peripheral

96

10 7

11 8

12 9

13 10

Peripheral Fragmented

14 11

12

13

Open Fragmented

14 Open

“However, the agricultural land at “However, Ma Shi Po, the the “O” zone inland FLNatPlanning agricultural Ma Shi Po, the “O” zone in FLN Planning Area 12 and the agricultural land adjacent to the meander Area 12 and themitigation agricultural land adjacent to the mitigation meander between FLN Planning Areas 13 and 15 areFLN designated various developbetween Planningfor Areas 13 and 15 are designated for various developPaper No.9746the FLN NDA development. There is no planning ment TPB zones to facilitate ment zones to facilitate the FLN NDA development. There is no planning For consideration by the Town justification using the concerned sites for agricultural justification for using thepurpose.” concerned sites for agricultural purpose.”

Planningfor Board on 8.10.2014

TPB Paper No.9746

For consideration by the Town Planning Board on 8.10.2014

Shek Lei Hang Village

Kon Hang

For consideration by the Town Planning Board on 7.7.2023

0

45m

Psychotria rubra (Pr)

Desmos chinensis grow

Ligustrum Psychotria sinense rubra (Pr)

Ficus Desmos hispida chinensis

Schefflera Ligustrum heptaphylla sinense (Sh)

Ficus Ficus pumila hispida

Schefflera heptaphylla (Sh)

Ficus pumila

flowering (Pr, Sh) wet season

Jan

Dec

spread

spread

Take cuttings Plant cuttings in soil

Plant cuttings in soil

Seed throwing

Plant cuttings in soil Seed sowing (climber) Seed throwing

grow

Using coconut coir netting to trap seeds

Using coconut coir netting to trap seeds

Inaccessible Accessible

Inaccessible

Plant cuttings in soil

Vegetative surface

Impermeable “According to AFCD, no designated sites of conservation are sites locat-of conservation surface “According to AFCD, nointerest designated interest are locat-

grow

grow

Place woody sediment traps

grow

Place woody sediment traps

Seed sowing (climber)

Impermeable surface

ed within or in close proximity toed thewithin sites. Trees foundproximity in these sites aresites. Trees found in these sites are or in close to the Paper No.9797 largelyTPB trees of exotic or commonlargely species.

In this regard,orit common is unlikelyspecies. that In this regard, it is unlikely that trees of exotic For consideration by the Town the rezoning would result in significant ecological issues.” the rezoning would result in significant ecological issues.”

Planning Board on 27.11.2014

For consideration by the Town Planning Board on 27.11.2014

Take cutting Planting Dec

Take cuttings

Vegetative surface

TPB Paper No.9797

90m

Ma On Shan draft OZP. S/MOS/23 Ma On Shan draft OZP. S/MOS/23 Item rejected on 2021.08.18 Item rejected on 2021.08.18 From GB to R(B)6; Private housing provision From GB to R(B)6; Private housing provision

Disperse seeds by gravity

grow flowering (Pr, Sh) Take cutting wet season PlantingAcacia confusa

Acacia confusa

“Although permanent loss within “Although the site is unavoidable due within to the the pro-site is unavoidable due to the propermanent loss posed developments, mitigation strategy and measures to alleviatestrategy or com-and measures to alleviate or composed developments, mitigation pensate the anticipated ecologicalpensate impact have been proposed... withimpact the have been proposed... with the the anticipated ecological TPB Paper No.10909 implementation of mitigation measures, no unacceptable residual impact isno unacceptable residual impact is implementation of mitigation measures, For consideration by the Town anticipated proposed development. anticipated ”from the proposed development. ” Planningfrom Boardthe on 7.7.2023

TPB Paper No.10909

Native shrubs/trees/climber frequently found within settlements include Native shrubs/trees/climber frequently found within settlements include

Disperse seeds by gravity

“The ecological impact assessment“The conducted hasimpact confirmed that theconducted overecological assessment has confirmed that the overall ecological impact, including both and indirect impact onboth habitats alldirect ecological impact, including direct and indirect impact on habitats TPB Paper No.10746 interest, will be acceptable after implementation and species of conservation and species of conservation interest, will be acceptable after implementation For consideration by the Town of thePlanning mitigation measures.” of the mitigation measures.”

Board on 7.7.2021

TPB Paper No.10746

For consideration by the Town Planning Board on 7.7.2021

Accessible

Fanling North NDA

AOI

Shek Lei Hang Village

Fanling North NDA

prevent s the u se

o f pes t icide

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department

Private

Private

Landslide incident

Landslide incident

, enc

prevent s the u se our ag e s

o f pes t icide

gro wt ho f

Companion planting

, enc

our ag e s

Shek Lei Hang Village

gro wt ho f

Re-vegetate former riparian farmland

Companion planting

Re-vegetate former riparian farmland

d is cussing p ote nt i

al

Survey at field

2016 2014

2017 2015

2018 2016

20

2019 2017

2020 2018

2021 2019

2020

2021

2020

2021

Env. NGOs protested during the public hearing

2022 2020

Env. NGOs protested

2023 2021

cre

s ate

or tf it a h ab

2023

h a bi

t

Woody debris that slow stream flow

h a bi

Shek Lei Hang ‘Arboretum’

Removing seedlings of Leucaena leucocephala

discussing potential plants to be ‘exhibited’

Woody debris that slow stream flow

Env. NGOs protested during the public hearing

2022

r fo

contributes toHang ‘Arboretum’ Shek Lei

Collecting seeds from existing riparian plants

m er

Phase 2

Env. NGOs protested

2015 2024

s ate

e f or th e liv

fo r

2014 2023

cre

OZP. S/MOS/24 Gazetted (Item G Rejected)

t it a h ab

urf ac

Site walk (LA, inhabitants, env. NGOS)

at

Phase 1

Comment period

2024 2022

OZP. S/MOS/24 Gazetted Opposed (Item G Rejected)

Opposed

e f or th e liv Observation at maintenance

fo r

Phase 2

urf ac

es ak e st

Planting grass at furrows

at

Phase 1 OZP. S/TP/26 Gazetted

Planning dept. held a project forum without Q&A session

nts

2023

OZP. S/TP/26 Gazetted

Planning dept. held a project forum without Q&A session

Inhabitants actively participated in the 2018 Land Supply Debate to defend their homes

hu

OZP. S/KC/32 Gazetted

Comment period

2022

Inhabitants complained Inhabitants complained Lands dept. informed Inhabitants actively participated in the 2018 through the LegCo Lands dept. informed through the LegCo inhabitants of the clearance Supply Debate to defend their homes inhabitants ofLand the clearance Redress System Redress System

11.5 hrs public hearing

nts

OZP. S/KC/32 Gazetted

Representation period

hu

11.5 hrs public hearing

Observation at maintenance

re s

Collecting seeds from existing riparian plants

Planting grass at furrows

Representation period

Survey at field

pr ep a

es ak e st

for

Mulching, no tillage

re s

Growing Gnetum luofuense

O V

Mulching the potential OVT to its dripline

t

21

ac e rr te

discussing potential to be ‘exhibited’ Plantingplants representative plants fie ld within settlement with cuttings

ac e rr te

fie ld

Removing seedlings of Setting upLeucaena camera trap leucocephala

Setting up camera trap

of wth gro

>1000 m3

d is cussing p ote nt i

e nc ha En

500-1000 m3

O V

of wth gro

100-500 m3

al

contributes to Mulching the potential OVT toSite its dripline walk (LA, inhabitants, env. NGOS)

e nc ha En

Mulching, no tillage

50-100 m3

pr ep a

ges u ra

0-50 m3

>1000 m3

enc o

s

AOI

Collecting live stakes from existing trees

Stab i li ze

enc o

hu nt

Incident in 2010s

500-1000 m3

Collecting live stakes Pickingfrom up trashes existing trees

Picking up trashes

AOI

Incident in 2020s Landslide scale (volume of failure)

100-500 m3

Pulling out Mikania

Understory nursery of Artocarpus hypargyreus

Recording Understory nursery of plantation growth Artocarpus hypargyreus

A black line formed by fallen leaves of Gnetum luofuense, visualizing woodland linkage

A black line formed by fallen leaves of Gnetum luofuense, visualizing woodland linkage

Planting representative plants within settlement with cuttings

Recording plantation growth

Growing Gnetum luofuense

MSc(SED)

Pulling out Mikania

Ts

AOI

e rial s used in mat

Incident in 2000s

AOI

e rial s used in mat

Incident in 2000s

Ts

Incident in 1980s Incident in 1990s

ges u ra

MSc(SED)

Landslide Warning Sign Landslide date

Incident in 1990s

Leaves fall

AOI

Leaves fall

Housing Department

50-100 m3

Houttuynia cordata

Plantago asiatica

contributes to

Highways Department Leisure and Cultural Services Department

0-50 m3

Jan

m er

Water Supplies Department

Housing Department

Incident in 2020s Landslide scale (volume of failure)

Flooded

Landslide Warning Sign

4

Ma On Shan Village Ma On 0 45m 90mVillage Shan

90m

Cynodon dactylon (Cd)

for

Lands Department

Highways Department Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Incident in 2010s

45m

Dec

Plantago asiatica

Stab i li ze

Lands Department Water Supplies Department

Incident in 1980s

Flow rate increases

Flooded

fruiting

contributes to

Woodland (LUHK 2018)

Landslide Warning Sign

Hoarded

Agriculture Land (LUHK 2018)

Responsible party for artificial slopes

Landslide date

HoardedBefore hoarded

Plants within settlements that may be exhibited include: Plants within settlements that may be exhibited include:

wet season

Country Park/ Special Areas (AFCD)

Woodland (LUHK 2018) Responsible party for artificial slopes

Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department

0

Tai Po OZP. S/TP/26 gazetted on 2015.09.18 Tai Po OZP. S/TP/26 gazetted on 2015.09.18 From GB to R(C)8; Private housing provision From GB to R(C)8; Private housing provision

Cynodon dactylon (Cd)

Collection(Cd) Sowing

Place woody sediment traps

1

3

fruiting wet season

spread

5

3

Pongamia pinnata

Plant cuttings in soil

Place woody debris

s

Agriculture Land (LUHK 2018)

Before hoarded

Flooded

grow

Fanling North NDA

Number/ hectare

5

Glochidion zeylanicum

Bischofia javanica (Bj)

Plant cuttings in soil

hu nt

Country Park/ Special Areas (AFCD)

Flow rate increases

Faster water percolation

Flooded

Landslide incidents (1984-2023) Landslide incidents (1984-2023) Landslide Warning Sign

4 Public participation streamlined Public participation streamlined

Syzygium nervosum

Jan

Ma Wo

6

Pongamia pinnata

Dec

Take cuttings

Ma On Shan Village

Water body Temple

Green Belt

Perennial cover crops

Native grasses with extensive/deep rootsNative includegrasses with extensive/deep roots include

Collection(Cd) Sowing

grow

6

Squatter huts

Water body

Conservation Area

Lolium perenne

grow

Department’s reading Root terraces to exhibit cultivation Department’s reading Root terraces to exhibit cultivation

flowering(Bj)

Take cuttings

Ma On Shan Village

Squatter huts

Temple

Fallow

Native trees along streams include

wet season

Jan

Slope stabilization

Number undisclosed

Syzygium nervosum

14 Take cutting Planting

Choi Yuen Village

45m Hang 90m Kon

Active

Tools

1114

Tools

Ma On Shan Village

Tools

Ma Shan KonOn Hang Village

Number undisclosed

Number undisclosed

0

Perennial cover crops

Deep-rooted cover crops

Tools

Number undisclosed

Reinforce streambank without concrete without concrete Reinforce streambank

Railways Ordinance

Indiv.

Kon Hang

90m

Cynodon dactylon

Seed collection

grow

13

Kon Hang

45m

Lolium Axonopus perenne compressus

Coring

Seed collection

Faster water percolation

Shek Lei Hang Village 0

Cynodon dactylon

spread fast

Dec

Jan

Shek Lei Hang VillageShek Lei 0 45m 90m Village Hang

Tools

spread fast

Active

Native trees along streams include

Railways Ordinance

Our Voice, HKSYU Our Voice, HKSYU 1 SYMediaLab, HKSYU SYMediaLab, HKSYU U-Beat Magazine, CUHK U-Beat Magazine, CUHK The Young Reporter, HKBU The Young Reporter, HKBU 0 Varsity, CUHK Varsity, CUHK 1 2 400 300 200 100 0 6000 24000 400 300 200 12000 100 18000 0 6000 12000 18000 24000 Grass Media Action Grass Media Action 20% 40% 60% 80% 20% 40% 60% 80% Enclosed Hamlets Land Hamlets Land No. of article on the conflicts No. ofconflicts response to consultations No. of article on the No. of response to consultations

Kwai Tsing OZP. S/KC/32 gazetted on 2023.10.13 Kwai Tsing OZP. S/KC/32 gazetted on 2023.10.13 From GB to R(A)3; Public housing provision From GB to R(A)3; Public housing provision

Lolium perenne (Lp)

Fast-growing grasses found within settlement include grasses found within settlement include Fast-growing

Axonopus compressus

fruiting (Lp)

Open

1013

14

Paspalum notatum (Pn)

fruiting (Pn)

Deep-rooted cover crops

Slope stabilization

Online Outlet

maybe a withdrawal well in wet season

Jan

Collection

Lolium Plantago perenne (Lp) asiatica

N/A

Newspaper

New Media

Book

Book

Being Hong Kong Ming Pao Weekly

New Media

Injection well

maybe a withdrawal well in wet season

fruiting (Lp)

Porous infill

grow

1 N/A

Injection well

fruiting (Pn)

Porous infill

Tools

Radio

Number undisclosed

Comment (2nd)

Dec

Paspalum notatum (Pn)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Being Hong Kong Ming Pao Weekly

China Daily China Daily Christian Times Christian Times Commons HK Commons HK Dot Dot News Dot Dot News HK City Creation HK City Creation HK Feature HK Feature HK01 HK01 Hong Kong Citizen MediaHong Kong Citizen Media inmediahk.net inmediahk.net Litenews HK Litenews HK Mill MILK Mill MILK Speak Out HK Speak Out HK The Collective HK The Collective HK Initium Media Initium Media The News Lens The News Lens Stand News Stand News Think HK Think HK Hong Kong Free Press Hong Kong Free Press CivilMedia@Taiwan CivilMedia@Taiwan Coolloud Collective@Taiwan Coolloud Collective@Taiwan

Student

Number undisclosed

Conditions Conditions

Fanling North NDA

AM730 AM730 Apple Daily Apple Daily Hong Kong Commercial Daily Hong Kong Commercial Daily Hong Kong Economic Journal Hong Kong Economic Journal Hong Kong Economic Times Hong Kong Economic Times Kung Kao Pao Kung Kao Pao Ming Pao Ming Pao Oriental Daily News Oriental Daily News Sing Pao Daily News Sing Pao Daily News Sing Tao Daily Sing Tao Daily Sky Post Sky Post Ta Kung Pao Ta Kung Pao The Epoch Times The Epoch Times Wen Wei Po Wen Wei Po South China Morning PostSouth China Morning Post The Standard The Standard

Comment (2nd) Representation (1st)

Number/ hectare

Commercial Radio Hong Commercial Kong Radio Hong Kong DBC Radio DBC Radio Metro Broadcast Metro Broadcast Radio Television Hong Kong Radio Television Hong Kong

TV

TV

i-CABLE HOY TV Now TV (Viu TV) TVB

Radio

North East New Territories Development Traditional Media North East New Territories Development

Newspaper

Traditional Media

i-CABLE HOY TV Now TV (Viu TV) TVB

Indiv.

NewTraditional media mediaRepresentation New (1st) media

Traditional media

English language

Jan

Tools

Voices Voices

Collection

wet season

Dec

Weed control reduces waterlogging Weed control reduces waterlogging to sustain farmlandto sustain farmland

Plantago asiatica

Tools

Tools

wet season

Jan

Tools

Retain grass enhances water infiltration Retain grass enhances water infiltration

Earthwork

English language

Deep-rooted grasses found within settlements include grasses found within settlements include Deep-rooted

Dig deep secures irrigation Dig deep cache secures irrigation cache Tools

Landslide Incidents in Squatter Settlements (1984-2023)

Tools

BA(LS)

Landslide Incidents in Squatter Settlements (1984-2023)

Landslide Incidents (1984-2023)

BA(LS)

14%

Landslide Incidents (1984-2023)

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA 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

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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

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.

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

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.

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

22

23

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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Feng Shui Toolkit Bridging the Gap between Feng Shui Knowledge and Landscape Ecology Principles Student: XIANG Linyu Thesis Advisor: JIANG Bin BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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

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.

the thesis develops an interpretive system for Feng Shui knowledge.

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.

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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,

Feng Shui originated from the ancient pursuit of

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.

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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,

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[Seed] Current use: propagtion 300-2060 kg/ha/year [6,26] [fresh weight, ±30% moisture content] USD 0.12-1.00/kg 10% protein [21-144 kg-protein/ha/year]

Rubber-based Economy

Economics of a Rubber Tree

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[Leaves]

[Latex] Current use: rubber production 3,000-6,000 kg/ha/year [20] USD 0.35-0.80/kg at individual level 12 g - protein/kg-latex

[Bark]

Current use: soil nutrition 2,650 kg/ha/year Current use: soil nutrition [fresh leaves, ±20% moisture content] 115 kg/ha/year USD 0.04/kg USD 0.04/kg 18% protein [380 kg-protein/ha/30 years] 6% protein [7kg-protein/ha/year]

[Wood] Current use: fuel or construction material 213 m³/ha/30 years [5] USD 23/m³ as timber [30] 2% protein [2 kg-protein/ha/30 years]

[CHAPTER II]

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The rubber plantation and forest distribution in Xishuangbanna 1990

2000

ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis XTBG

Navigating Rubber Narrating Environmental History through Alternative Ecological Restoration Schemes in Xishuangbanna

2010

Student: LIU Jiani Vicki Thesis Advisor: LU Xiaoxuan BA(LS)

BA(LS)

2020

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

local communities and transformed biodiverse landscapes into biological deserts.

elephants as ecosystem engineers to enhance forest restoration.

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.

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.

[scientist] ᓯⅿ᳑೉೴

[rubber smallholder] ᓯⅿറ⤳ [state rubber farm worker] ⤳ୟจ‫ד‬

[Seed] Current use: propagtion 300-2060 kg/ha/year [6,26] [fresh weight, ±30% moisture content] USD 0.12-1.00/kg 10% protein [21-144 kg-protein/ha/year]

Rubber-based Economy

Economics of a Rubber Tree

[Leaves]

[Latex]

[Bark]

Current use: soil nutrition Current use: soil nutrition 2,650 kg/ha/year 115 kg/ha/year [fresh leaves, ±20% moisture content] USD 0.04/kg USD 0.04/kg 18% protein [380 kg-protein/ha/30 years] 6% protein [7kg-protein/ha/year]

Current use: rubber production 3,000-6,000 kg/ha/year [20] USD 0.35-0.80/kg at individual level 12 g - protein/kg-latex

[Wood] Current use: fuel or construction material 213 m³/ha/30 years [5] USD 23/m³ as timber [30] 2% protein [2 kg-protein/ha/30 years]

[CHAPTER II] [Human Settlement]

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

[Agricultural Field]

[Buffer Zone]

[Reforested Elephant Habitat]

The rubber plantation and forest distribution in Xishuangbanna [Elephant Canteen 3] Humans and Elephants in Xishuangbanna, China [Elephant

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10M

[Elephant Canteen 1] The "elephant canteens" were built in three former state-owned forest areas with a total area of 1,000 mu. The purpose is to stop elephants wandering into villages in search of food and coming into conflict with humans.

[Elephant Canteen] [大象食堂]

Daily food

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[Fragmented Habitat]

Human-elephant conflicts mostly occur outside protected areas or in buffer zones, since there are few settlements inside the protected areas. Crop depredations and damage to property occur regularly and death and injury of humans occasionally, across Xishuangbanna.

Expansion of monoculture farming, where fields are dedicated to single crops like tea and rubber, as well as the construction of giant transport projects in the region, have disrupted the elephants’ grazing and roaming routes.

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[Free-roaming Elephant Herd]

[Elephant Canteen 3]

Many of the elephants never returned to the original forest and now live almost exclusively amongst the eucalyptus, rubber and palm plantations and occasional community forest within close proximity to villages.

The "elephant canteens" were built in three former state-owned forest areas with a total area of 1,000 mu. The purpose is to stop elephants wandering into villages in search of food and coming into conflict with humans.

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17HRS Daily walking distance 8KM Daily water distance 200L Daily intake per

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Daily Routines]

eating time

The "elephant canteens" were built in three former state-owned forest areas with a total area of 1,000 mu. The purpose is to stop elephants wandering into villages in search of food and coming into conflict with humans by planting crops that elephants like to eat.

[Forest + Elephant Guardian]

Recognizing the limitations of the current elephant canteen model, the proposed strategy introduces a compensation scheme as the foundation for the restoration plan.

The model, funded by multiple levels of government, offers monetary compensation for losses incurred due to elephant activities. Farmland crops will be transformed into a food source for elephants, and villagers will receive compensation regardless of whether their crops are damaged or consumed by elephants.

This positions villagers as both the ‘chef’ for the elephanand and ‘caretaker’ of the forests.

ELEPHANT CANTEEN 2.0 [Dual Role] Farmland crops will be transformed into a food source for elephants, and villagers will receive compensation regardless of whether their crops are damaged or consumed by elephants.

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COMPENSATION AMOUNT

Death Injury Rubber < 5 years Rubber > 5 years Coffee < 3 years Coffee > 3 years Sugarcane Rice Livestock

[Elephant Canteen 2]

600,000

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[Ecosystem Engineer]

8/plant 16/plant 2.7/kg

[Saltpeter Pond]

40/kg

[Bee Fences]

Elephants have encountered difficulties navigating within the forest due to the narrow intervals of rubber plantations, which can sometimes be even narrower than their body width of 1.5-2.5 meters.

Beehive fencing uses hanging beehives connected around crops and homes to deter elephants from entering areas by using their natural fear of honey bees.

[Elephant Canteen 1] 2M Restoration schemes based onAsian Elephant food-scape

[Ha-ha] A sunk fence creates a vertical barrier to prevent elephants from entering the villages while preserving an uninterrupted view of the landscape from the other side.

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This positions villagers as both the ‘chef’ for the elephanand and ‘caretaker’ of the forests.

200,000 20/plant

1,100/mu

[Challenge 1 - Moving in Forests]

Besides defending against elephants, beehive fences have the benefits of being easily managed by farmer groups, involving locally available materials, providing pollination to crops, and providing a supplemental income to farmers through the sale of wax and honey.

Salt is very important to many animals, including Asian elephants. Due to their large body weight, they need more salt. Although the lack of sweat glands reduces the metabolism of salt in the body, an adult Asian elephant also needs to consume 50g of salt every day.

[Removal of Old and Unproductive Rubber Tree] Rubber trees that have reached the end of their productive cycle will be removed in collaboration with XTBG scientists. Smallholders will then convert the space into a food source for elephants by planting a diverse range of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, in addition to agricultural crops.

Elephants are generally referred to as ecosystem engineers, because of the significant role they play in modifying and shaping the landscape. They often push over and uproot trees and these decomposing trees, in turn, create a new habitat for small mammals and thousands of insect species.

Elephants strip trees of their bark – after which the tree usually dies. In these ways, they clear areas that are overgrown with thick strands of encroaching small trees, making these areas more accessible to other animals.

The Rainforest Engineer

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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

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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

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Route B

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Starting at XTBG, Route B takes visitors through four ethnic minority villages: Dai, Aini, Akha, and Jinuo. Each village offers a unique insight into their distinct lifestyle. The goal of this route is to challenge mainstream commodified and oversimplified ethno-tourism.

Through local guided tours in Meng Yang Village, visitors will have a closer look at the medicinal plants showcased in XTBG's garden at a much more dynamic and complex landscape..

Additionally, visitors will have the opportunity to transform their role from mere visitors to active participants in the reforestation efforts by joining the tree planting program.

Route A

On Route A, visitors can explore the environmental history by beginning at XTBG's 'Jungle rubber' and continuing to Meng Xing state farms en route to Site A. This journey offers a diverse exposure to academic scientific knowledge, as well as a hands-on comparison between monoculture plantations and dynamic agroforestry systems.

Type 1 [Y1-Y6]

Type 2 [Y7-Y22]

[Y1-Y6]

Type 3 [Y23+]

[Y7-Y22]

[3.8KM away]

[Y23+]

[The Holy Hill] [竜林] Holy Hills are instrumental in preserving the ecological integrity of entire landscapes because of their intimate cultural ties with local people

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[2KM away]

[3.5KM away]

[Slash-and-burn Agriculture] [1.5KM away]

Temporary removal of forest cover by cutting and burning, sowing crops in the cleared area, then leaving the patch fallow after the harvest, for forest recovery.

[2KM away]

[1KM away]

[Free-roaming Livestock]

[5M away]

[NTFPs Collection] Non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

[Firewood Collection]

[Understory Livestock] Breeding of small-sized livestock and poultry under yound rubber canopy

[Edible Fungi] Cultivation of fungus that prefer cool and humid climate of mature rubber plantation

[0KM away] [0KM away]

Household A [Rubber-Pineapple]

Household B [Rubber-Banana]

Total cost of pineapple intercropping [31950 RMB hectare2] Production per hectare was 42.75t x price of pineapple per hectare (2800RMB) = 119700 - 31950 (cost) = 87750 RMB

Intercropped banana plantations can be tapped 4 months earlier than monoculture rubber plantations, and the stem circumference and height of intercropped rubber trees are thicker and taller than monoculture rubber trees

Planting cycle of pineapple: 1.5 years which translates into an annual return of RMB 58,500hm-2

[Establishment of Dominant Plant Species Community]

[Underground Root Competition]

Mature rubber trees create heavy shade and the underground root competition intensifies, the inter-cropping system would be less effective.

Mixing heliphilous and shade-tolerant species, fast-growing and slow-growing ones, big seedlings and saplings, including arbors, shrubs, and herbs.

Methodology B

Type S[Y22 +] Rubber-based Agroforestry

Methodology A

[The Herb Farm]

Amomum villosum is a medicinal herb of high economic value. It has been widely cultivated as an underplanted crop both in natural forests and in tree plantations, which are now becoming a major type of agroforestry farming in Meng Yang Village

Amomum villosum and Clerodendranthus spicatus are two kinds of herb species and are regarded as the suitable intercropped species for increasing the additional income of rubber farmers and for remoulding the mid-aged and aged rubber plantations.

The Akha Culture Institute

Medical Ethnobotany

Buddhist Temple Garden

The Akha People’s

Religion has a significant impact on forest management and conservation. Influenced by the Holy Hill and Buddhist cultures, plants with both practical and religious value are cultivated around Buddhist temples. These gardens serve as a typical example of a "Buddhist temple botanical garden," fulfilling the needs of Buddhist activities and safeguarding local plant species and the environment.

Mosaic farming is a system of land use combining patches of annual cropping interspersed with perennial vegetation. Meng Yang Village retains some of its mosaic-like and unorderly appearance, and in its functionality, the upland landscape is more heterogeneous and flexible.

Seed Bank

Meng Yang Village, Xishuangbanna, China

Community Engagement

[Led by Dr. YANG Xiaodong]

Before

[Ex-Situ Conservation] XTBG and BGCI forged partnership to develop a model for restoration of tropical rain forest on limestone in Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve. This forest type has dramatically decreased in size in Xishuangbanna area, mainly due to conversion to rubber plantations.

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Realizing XTBG’s limited capacity in terms of size and lack of experimental replication for implementing ‘‘Jungle Rubber’’on a large scale, Plot I is centered around a landscape matrix model that focuses on resource management and plot allocations. Four types of plots are introduced depending on the age of the rubber tree. Each plot type employs specialized scientific knowledge from XTBG, in collaboration with the local community, to develop solutions targeting rubber trees of varying ages.

An intercropping experiment at XTBG

Ex-situ Conservation & Plating of dominant plant species community

[A Science-Oriented Approach]

[Buddhist Temple] [佛教寺院]

[Mosaic Agriculture System]

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XTBG has established a management agreement with the Management Bureau of Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve for a period of 40 years to conduct research on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem restoration. This pilot demonstration project aims to restore one hectar of degraded area with locally available, native species, and to raise awareness of the importance of protecting the remaining natural forest stands from conversion into rubber plantations. To date, the pilot restoration site has been identified, and the plant species composition surveyed with the engagement of the local community. Work has begun to clear the area from invasive species.

Saplings of climax species have been planted and are being monitored.

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Nowadays, young boys are not obligated to attend temple to learn scripture.

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—— Yan Li, 82 years old, local Akha doctor and herbalist

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—— Yu Wangxi, 32 years old, Akha villager

‘In the past, I would go to the forets to find herbal medicine to treat my patients, but now, many plants are no longer to be found.’

[Village Council]

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My village was surrounded by mountains filled with tall trees and haunted by many ghosts back then. We believed that cutting down any tree, regardless of its size, would result in bad karma.’

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[Akha Culture Institute]

1960

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MSc(SED)

[Restoration Site]

Xinzhai Meng Xing Guan Zhai Village

‘Rubber was 24 yuan during its peak in 2010s, and one person could earn 70,000 yuan, while the per capita income in Xishuangbanna was only 14,000 yuan. Now the price is not even 10 yuan, we don’t know what to do next.’

—— Mo Guoming, 37 years old, smallholder rubber farmer

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MLA / PDLA ARCH7299 Landscape Thesis

Reviving Grotto Heaven Restoring Balance to the Taoist Sacred Sites

Student: PAN Yichang Thesis Advisor: MAK Wing Sze Vincci BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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

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.

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?

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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.

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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

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

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Seeding Biocultural Diversity in Urban Contexts Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Digital Technology

Student: CHUNG Pui Yu Ada Thesis Advisor: VALIN Ivan BA(LS)

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

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.

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.

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

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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

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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

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Redefining Mycoscape Mycelium as a Catalyst for Ecological Restoration and Transformative Landscape Practices in Hong Kong Student: TANG Chi Tat Thesis Advisor: ECHEVERRI Natalia BA(LS)

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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

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.

design, its role in landscape architecture remains largely untapped.

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.

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Key strategies involve the use of temporal landscape materials derived from mycelium to decontaminate and revitalize the site. Demonstrations in this

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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The exploration of fungal architecture is more than a scientific endeavour; it is a cultural shift towards sustainable construction practices that respect and integrate with natural processes.

While challenges remain in material development and global scalability, the potential of mycelium to revolutionize the construction industry holds promise for a more sustainable and ecologically integrated future.

The future of mycelial materials may also lie in strategic geometric design and advanced postprocessing techniques.

By leveraging digital fabrication methods, such as 3D printing, and exploring different geometries, engineers can enhance the structural capabilities of mycelium-based composites.

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Inside Out Habitat Reimagining Reciprocity Student: LAM Yuen Ching Esther Thesis Advisor: KOKORA Michael

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

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

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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.

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.

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“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

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Combating Wildfire and Smoke Evidence-Based Solutions for Effective Mitigation and Adaptation in Butte, California Student: XU Maoyang Thesis Advisor: CHEN Bin BA(LS)

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

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

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.

fostering sustainable, resilient communities capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change and wildfires.

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

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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

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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

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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 BA(LS)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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 Public Review panel discussion

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.

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Landscape Peripheries Transformational Approaches along the Coastal Trail Instructors: TRUMPF Susanne, REN Chao, HILGEFORT Jason MSc(Cons)

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'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.

Sky Islands by LEONG On Ian Enya 62

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Ho Chi Minh City Futures Landscape Strategies for Reconciling Water Instructors: VALIN Ivan, CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco MSc(Cons)

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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.

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Studio Chiang Mai Territorial Strategies for Inhabited Forests of Doi Suthep-Pui National Park Instructor: LU Xiaoxuan MSc(Cons)

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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.

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Re-Purposing Public Space Hong Kong’s Large Urban Parks Instructor: PRYOR Mathew MSc(Cons)

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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.

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Energize the Waterfront Park by ZHANG Ludan and Public park proposal by LEUNG Tsz Long Anna 79

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New village life

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ARCH7233B Studio IIIB

Defeating the Ghost City Landscape practice guided by the Theory of Exquisite City Instructor: JIANG Bin

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This studio Ƃ}À VÕ ÌÕÀ> iÝ«iÀ i Vi explores the revitalization of shrinking coastal cities in North China by boosting ecotourism, economic growth, and leveraging natural resources.

Imagination#1 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 ÛiÀÃ wi` Ƃ}À VÕ ÌÕÀi] establishes a connection with the city's natural 7>ÌiÀ «ÕÀ wV>Ì ] resources. They conducted fieldwork, V } V> «À ÌiVÌ 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.

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Mindful Journey by WANG Pengtao 81

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Experimental Landscape Landscape Tectonics & Spatial Form Instructor: KOKORA Michael MSc(Cons)

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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.

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Acoustic Landscape by MA Duo, Exploring Void by TANG Chi Tat, and Collection of Short Stories by YANG Zihan Ziv 83

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2060: IN-FILTRATED Projecting a Carbon Neutral Future around Xili Lake Instructors: CHEN Chen, SALADINO Nicola MSc(Cons)

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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.

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Healing City by TANG Haoran 85

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Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PDLA

SYLLABUS 課程大綱

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

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。

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.

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。

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

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FIELD-WORK Uncovering Site and Engaging Process in the Landscape Instructor: VALIN Ivan MSc(Cons)

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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.

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

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Urban Water/Urban Wild Recalibrating Nature/Human Relationships in Hong Kong Instructor: ECHEVERRI Natalia MSc(Cons)

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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.

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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 95

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

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MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) ARCH7191 Landscape Architecture Intensive

Hong Kong: Big City, Little Landscapes Instructors: SHINJI Wataru MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Landscape Architecture Intensive Review 96

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PDLA Urban Water/ Urban Wild Final Review

學園 士境 課學 程文

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES BA(LS) 園境學文學士課程 YEAR 1 Fall Semester

YEAR 2 Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Spring Semester

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

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。

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.

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。

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.

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Landscape Technology I

Landscape History and Theory I

Landscape Representation II

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Studio II

Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

Landscape History and Theory II

Landscape Technology II

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Landscape History and Theory III

English Language Course

Chinese Language Course

English Language Course

Common Core Course

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YEAR 4 Fall Semester

Spring Semester

Spring Semester

Studio III

Studio IV

Studio V

Studio VI

Landscape Representation II

Landscape Representation III

Landscape Technology IV

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Landscape Technology III

Landscape History and Theory IV

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II Landscape Design Studios

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MLA / PDLA

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BA(LS) ARCH4202 Studio VI

Thai-Myanmar Border Studio Critical Landscape Planning for the Dawna-Tenasserim Landscape

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: KELLY Ashley Scott

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Manual for scale-jumping in the development of northern Thailand by LAM Yi Ham Enson 104

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II Landscape Design Studios

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MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

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Cultural and geopolitical considerations for the Framework Species Method by CO Sam Wendell Chen 107

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

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) ARCH2113 Studio I

Re-grounding Relics Instructor: CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Lofted Connections by WONG Po Mun Polly 110

Meander Layering by HUI Koon Kai Craig, Pole Sequences by CHIU Chun Yin Isaac and Frames by HE Lok Yiu Melody 111

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) ARCH2202 Studio II

Landscape in the City Urban Transects of PoHo Neighborhood Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

'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) 112

Site Analysis by HUI Yu Yuen Alyssa and Urban Slopescape by HE Lok Yiu Melody 113

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) ARCH3203 Studio III

Engaging Infrastructure, Nature and Heritage in Sham Shek Tsuen MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: ECHEVERRI Natalia, NG Sylvia Teaching Assistant: LI Ziyuan Lena

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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

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

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II Landscape Design Studios

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MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) ARCH3204 Studio IV

Junk Bay: Landscape Systems and Urban Infrastructures MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne, ETTEL Nikolas Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Site model and Mussel Bay by WU Fan Lucy 116

Eco-connection through Water by XIONG Yuchen Celine and Mussel Bay by WU Fan Lucy 117

II Landscape Design Studios

II Landscape Design Studios

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS) Invigorating Island South by TSUI Tsz Shan Iris

ARCH4201 Studio V

The Bigger Picture Coloring Outside the Lines Instructor: JAN Brian MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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 118

Aberdeen Extension by LAM Yi Han Enson 119

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

III Planting + Ecology

III Planting + Ecology

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

ARCH7255

Landscape Plants and Ecology II ARCH2114 Instructor: PRYOR Mathew

Instructor: HAU Billy Chi Hang Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Ecological creation, restoration, and enhancement are growing areas of landscape practice, encompassing both the need to mitigate or compensate for damage

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.

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.

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

Ecology and Sustainability

ARCH1102 / ARCH7152

Plants and Planting Design I / Landscape Plants and Ecology I MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

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MSc(SED)

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.

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III Planting + Ecology

III Planting + Ecology

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED) Section by SO Ching Lam Rainbow , HUNG Tsz Hin Hung Henry, and SINGCULAN Gwyneth Tajanlangit 126

Section by HO Tsz Hei Tea and Ching Hau Sik Monique 127

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)

IV Representation + Media

IV Representation + Media

ARCH3098

Landscape Representation I: Conceptual and Abstract Representation

Landscape Representation III: Operations and Fabrication

Ambiguous perception: Reimagining public space

Digital Methods

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe

Instructor: CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

ARCH1103

With rapid technological advancements, several

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.

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.

Seaspace In Relaxation by SHEK Hiu Yan

Rain Basin by XIONG Yuchen Celine

ARCH1104

ARCH3097/ ARCH7176

Landscape Representation II: Operations and Fabrication

Landscape Media Systems and Simulations Instructor: CHEN Bin Teaching Assistants: LI Ziming,WANG Han,YU Wenbo

Instructor: FAN Man Si Phoebe Teaching Assistant: LIU Yapeng Olly

MSc(SED)

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.

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

131

MSc(SED)

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.

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Beyond Boundaries: Navigating Materials and Digital Integration

Space and Form model by HUNG Tsz Hin

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

This Representation course introduces students to visual representation as a tool for conceptual and

IV Representation + Media

IV Representation + Media

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

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

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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.

Final review Topographic models

ARCH7182

Landscape Media II Materials and Fabrication MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Material testing and prototyping by LO Chui Sim Cadence 132

PDLA Landscape Media II Final Review 133

IV Representation + Media

IV Representation + Media

Fig. 01 ARCH1104 Orthographic Projection

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Drawing by CHING Hau Sik Fig. 02 ARCH1104 Conceptual additive model

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by HO Tsz Hei Fig. 05 ARCH1104 Subtractive foam model prototype by HO Tsz Hei

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BA(LS)

BA(LS)

Fig. 06 ARCH1104 Casting prototype by HO Tsz Hei Fig. 07-08 ARCH1104 Plaster model by HO Tsz Hei Fig. 09 ARCH1104 Final printed model by HO Tsz Hei Fig. 10 ARCH1104 2 and

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MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Yin Daniel

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

MSc(SED)

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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.

ARCH7281 Landscape Technology ARCH7156 ArchitectureIIPractice Axonometric drawing by LO Lung Ha, Annie to SENT Landfill

V Technology + Practice

V Technology + Practice

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

ARCH7151

Landscape Technology I

ARCH7157

Landscape Systems

Grading and Drainage

Instructor: KEHRER Jutta

Instructor: COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie Landscape architects shape both expansive landscapes and urban environments. Understanding

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.

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.

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

This seminar examines landscape as an assembly of natural systems—geological, hydrological, climatic, and ecological—interacting dynamically with human

ARCH7158

ARCH7156

Landscape Technologies and Techniques

Landscape Technology II

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: VALIN Ivan Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Plan drawing by LO Fung Yee

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

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MSc(SED)

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.

MSc(Cons)

Material, Assembly, and Performance in Landscape Architecture

Instructor: COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

V Technology + Practice

V Technology + Practice

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA ARCH3102

Landscape Technology III Technology in Landscape Architecture Instructor: KEHRER Jutta

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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.

Steps design drawings by XIONG Yuchen Celine

ARCH7281

Landscape Architecture Practice MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: WILSON Barry Teaching Assistant: SIU Kit Wing Virginia

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

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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 (Group project)

VI History + Theory

VI History + Theory

ARCH2106/ ARCH7141 MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Landscape History and Theory II: Theory and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Landscapes of Modernity, Modernism and the Contemporary

ARCH7148

Histories of Landscape

Instructor: WANG Ting

Instructors: LU Xiaoxuan, CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco Teaching Assistant: TSUI Ho Yin Tony

This course explores various approaches to understanding landscape, environment, and

This course sought to understand contemporary positions within the landscape discipline by

A Disciplinary Exploration

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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.

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.

Slides of Case Study on Bishan Park

by WANG Xiangyi and LI Huangyang

ARCH2203/ARCH7159

Agency of Change and Ethics of Practice ARCH1029

Landscape History and Theory I: Introduction to Landscape Design

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

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Landscape History and Theory III: Environment, Community & Design

Instructor: CHAN Yin Lun

MSc(SED) HiroshimaMonAmour by SABUROVA Polina

Analytical Transect Collage by LO Chui Sim Cadence 144

145

MSc(SED)

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.

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.

VI History + Theory

VI History + Theory

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

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

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

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.

Chinese White Dolphin Research (Group project)

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

ARCH7291

Thesis Prep MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Instructor: LU Xiaoxuan Teaching Assistant: SATTAYANRAK Kanisa

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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

Thesis proposition model by LIU Jiani Vicki 146

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Master of Science in Conservation

VII Master of Science in Conservation MSc(Cons)

VII Master of Science in Conservation MSc(Cons)

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CONSERVATION MSc(Cons)

SYLLABUS 課程大綱

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 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。

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.

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。

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

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。

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.

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。

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.

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Charters and Legislation of Conservation

Critical Issues in Heritage Conservation

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

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The War Heritage Comfort Station in Shanghai Student: ZHU Yu Thesis Advisor: SHU Changxue

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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.

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

Japanese military invasion dynamics during the Battle of Shanghai

The early cases of Folk Museum revisited, HK historical map 1987

Sam Tung Uk Museum, the heritagization, 1981-87

Law Uk Museum, the heritagization, 1989

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Folk Museums The Heritagization in Hong Kong, 1976-1997 Student: CHEN Yin-Tong Thesis Advisor: SHU Changxue

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Instructor: SHETABI Linda Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea

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The "Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation" course introduces students to key

A comprehensive introduction to the theories and practices of heritage conservation and management

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.

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.

Built Heritage and Its Significance

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Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation

Character Defining Elements of Jamia Mosque (Group work)

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Critical Issues in Heritage Conservation

Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development

Tong Lau (mainly residential): ● Shops or businesses on GF and residential units above. ● The vestiges of HK’s early commercial development (1850s). ● Partly dismantled as a result of modern development, rebuilt into high rising.

High Rising (mainly commercial): ● Extremely precious real estate resources, high rising are built within the scope of TPB’s approval to increase the plot ratio that maximize the economic value. ● Residential, commercial, or mixed-use purposes. ● Rapid vertical growth and urbanization of Central.

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2.4.4 Vacancy & occupancy

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.

household lighting at night, Although the business climate is good, the rate of tenement PMQ is higher, and the vacancy rate of most houses is above 50%.

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

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.

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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 roof 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 CONS8103

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Western Market consists of three primary parts, the northern and This course introduces the techniques of documentation and assessment in heritage southern end blocks and the central block. (Thorley, 1985, p.4)

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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

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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.

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Hong Kong to understand how doctrines, charters, Western Market consists of three primary parts, the northern and and legislation determine the fate of heritage sites. southern end blocks and the central block. (Thorley, 1985, p.4) Through the careful study of selected buildings, The architectural design reflects the Edwardian style,that whichadhered was they developed conservation policies popular during 1901 toethical 1910 in England.

It showcases to professional standards and a codes of harmonious blend of classical facades and well-organized layout, conduct and supported the preservation of heritage inspired from axial and symmetrical principles. The polychromatic significance. also critiqued thebricks ways which effect is achieved They by using a combination of red andingranite band on a legislation, granite base, as well as the application of enforcement “bandaged” existing guidelines, and their CONS8103 2 by HUANG Limiao 3036194558 (Urban Renewal Authority) brickworkAssignment to the corner towers. impact conservation activities

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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)

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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)

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Instructors: PHILLIPS Steven Ray , CHUI Shing Kit Jack with intricately carved keystones and regular blocks that Teaching Assistant: HO Michelle Chelsea interrupted the arch, while magnificent granite arch spans over course allows students to gain insights into the main entrance, creatingThis a decorative effect. (Urban Renewal scientific and construction principles used in

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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.

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International Field Trip Vigan, Phillipines

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN MSc(SED)

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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 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。

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.

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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。

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Environmental Simulation and Performance Assess Tools

Bioclimatic Building Design

City Risk and Resilience:Emerging Planning Theories and Practices

Innovation and Smart Technology for Sustainable Development

Elective: Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities

Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design

Elective: Topical Study II inSustainable Design and Urban Development

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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.

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Dissertation Part II (Capstone Experience) Instructor: CHEN Bin, CHEN Guangzhao, ZHANG Xiaoxin Teaching Assistants: ZHANG Feiyang, CHEN Xidong, CHEN Ruijun, ZHOU Wangyizhang

Enhancing Urban Ventilation of High-Density Communities during Urban Renewal in Hong Kong by LU Yi 170

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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.

Carbon Sequestration in Hong Kong’s Urban Green Space: Evaluation and Landscape-based Optimizationby PAN Daqi 171

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Environmental Sound Simulation and Performance Assessment Tools

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Instructors: LAM Kin Che Teaching Assistants: LI Yilun, SZETO Chloe

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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.

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.

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Innovation and Smart Technology for Sustainable Development

Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design

Instructors: CHEN Bin, ZHANG Xiaoxin Teaching Assistants: LI Ziming, WANG Han, YU Wenbo,

Instructors: AU Benny Pui Nang , LEUNG Chi Fung Teaching Assistants: ZHOU Wangyizhang

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.

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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.

Assessing the Effects of Climate Change (Group project)

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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

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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.

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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.

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Urban Arboriculture

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Where the Wild Things Are

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

AFIC1003 Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

On Agendas Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas The Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses (FICs) comprise

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.

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.

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

This course was part of the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Iinternational Workshop, where

AFIC1004 Faculty Interdisciplinary Course

Chinese Landscape

On Methods

Instructor: JIANG Bin Teaching Assistant: LIU Xueming

Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas 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.

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

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.

Critical Reflections on Giant Obsolete Sculptures by TANG Shiyi 180

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

ARCH7349 Elective

181

IX Electives + Core Curriculum

IX Electives + Core Curriculum

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

CCHU9082 Common Core course

24 Frames: Communicating Ideas through Film CCHU5001 / CCHU9001 Common Core course Instructor: ETTEL Nikolas

Instructor: PRYOR Mathew Designs on the Future inspires students to envision

Films move at 24 images (or frames) per second, while the stories they convey move us emotionally.

This course investigates films as transformative

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.

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.

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

Designs on the Future / (Online)

Material Ecologies: Local Practices and Global Impacts

Instructor: COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant: CHAN Shu Fai Eddie

Instructor: TRUMPF Susanne Teaching Assistant: CHUNG How Yu Jonathan

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.

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.

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

CCGL6002 Common Core course

Nature in The City: beyond the Concrete Jungle

Metaphorical Tree Poster by FAN Xie Yi 182

MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

CCHU9058 Common Core course

183

IX Electives + Core Curriculum

IX Electives + Core Curriculum

The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment

Instructor: BRENNAN Bernard Nicholas

Instructor: SHETABI Linda

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.

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.

SEED6303 Elective

Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities Instructor: WONG Kam Sing Teaching Assistant: SZETO Chloe

BA(LS)

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.

BA(LS)

CCHU9048 Common Core course

Cultural Landscape

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

CONS8109 Elective

SEED6306 Elective

Topical Study II in Sustainable Design and Urban Development MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

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.

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED) Geospatial data analysis

CONS8109 Site analysis 184

185

Experimentation for Material Ecologies

學 術 交 流

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

191 MSc(Cons)

190 BA(LS)

X Knowledge Exchange

MLA / PDLA

X Knowledge Exchange

MLA / PDLA

BA(LS)

MSc(Cons)

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

193 MSc(Cons)

192 BA(LS)

X Knowledge Exchange

MLA / PDLA

X Knowledge Exchange

與教 學職 生員

STAFF + STUDENT

XI Staff + Student

ADJUNCT & PART TIME ACADEMIC STAFF

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

FULL TIME & FRACTIONAL ACADEMIC STAFF

XI Staff + Student

WONG Kam Sing

Associate Professor (Teaching)

PRYOR Mathew

Adjunct Professor

KATZSCHNER Lutz Frieder LAM Kin Che YAMAGATA Yoshiki

Associate Professor

JIANG Bin REN Chao Adjunct Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

CHEN Bin KELLY Ashley Scott LU Xiaoxuan SHU Changxue

AU Pui Nang Benny CHANG Ping Hung Wallace KEHRER Jutta LEUNG Chi Fung LEUNG Man Kit

Senior Lecturer

COATES Gavin ECHEVERRI Natalia MAK Wing Sze Vincci TRUMPF Susanne

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

LUO Zhi Wen Vincent

Visiting Lecturer

UNAKUL Montira

CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco ETTEL Nikolas SHETABI Linda

Assistant Lecturer

FAN Man Si Phoebe

Post Doctoral Researcher

CHEN Guangzhao

Teaching Assistant

CHAN Shu Fai Eddie SIU Virginia K.W. HO Michelle C LIU Olly Yapeng SZETO Chloe TSUI Ho Yin Tony ZHOU Wangyizhang

MSc(SED)

Lecturer

Honorary Associate Professor

CHU Cecilia

196

197

KOKORA Michael NG Sylvia PHILLIPS Steven Ray ROBINSON James Ian SHINJI Wataru SALADINO Nicola WILSON Barry WU Tsan Sum Roger

MSc(SED)

Distinguished Fellow

MSc(Cons) Msc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

VALIN Ivan

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

Head of Division and Associate Professor of Practice

XI Staff + Student

XI Staff + Student

STUDENT LIST MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Master of Landscape Architecture MLA Year 2

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies BA(LS) Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

YANG Zihan

CHING Hau Sik Monique

CHAN Yik Yu

CHENG Sum Yu Yannie

CHEN Apple

YU Fengzhu

HISANO Aika

CHIU Chun Yin Isaac

CHEUNG Peggy

CO Sam Wendell Chen

WANG Guoyi

ZHANG Chaoying

HO Athena

CHONG Hoi Ching

CHUNG Pui Shan

KUAN Pui Shan

MA Duo

WANG Pengtao

ZHANG Ludan

HO Tsz Hei

FUNG Hok Him

GUO Jingyang

LAM Yi Ham

HO Po Yu

O'DELL Bradley David

WANG Xiaoqi

ZHONG Qiuxuan

HUNG Tsz Hin

GU Dian

KU Raymond Man Yim

LAW Vanessa Lok Tung

HU Haoran

PAN Yichang

WANG Xiaoyu

ZHOU Jian

LAM Kei Ching

HE Lok Yiu

LAI Man Ching

LEE Jinyoung

HUI Sin Yee

QI Yuan

WANG Xinyi

ZHOU Jiaxuan

LAM Wing Tung

HUI Jaden Tatsuya

LAU Ka Yee

TSUI Tsz Shan

KONG Ho Hin

QIU Xinyun

XIANG Linyu

ZHU Junyan

LAU Sin Ting

HUI Koon Kai

LAW Man Ying Marita

WONG Hei Yuet Anna

LAI Tsz Kwan

SHAO Yuqin

XU Ao

LIEM Tsz Hei

HUI Yu Yuen

LEUNG Hoi Ting

WU Yayun Dancy

MOU Hei Yuen Stephen

KWOK Hau Yi

LEUNG Lok Yin Marcus

SABUROVA Polina

KWOK Sau Lok

LEW Victor Jorge

SHEK Hiu Yan

LOK Shuet Ying Cherie

LIU Jiali

SINGCULAN Gwyneth

SZE Yuen Tung

LO Lai Yin

Tajanlangit

WONG Chui Ting

MIYAKE Yuzuka

SO Ching Lam

WONG Po Mun

MOON Joonseong

LAM Esther Yuen Ching

SHI Siyuan

XU Maoyang

CHEN Xinyi

LEUNG Hoi Kiu

TANG Chi Tat

XU Shuying

CHU Kunyuan

LEUNG Tsz Long

TANG Haoran

CHUNG Pui Yu, Ada

LIU Jiani

TANG Shiyi

HE Chengrong

LU Tong

HO Dai Rong Heather

BA(LS) Master of Landscape Architecture MLA Year 1 AU Chi Fung Adrian CHEN Zhihua

ZHANG Wanting

WONG Lok Fan

ZHOU Hua

YANG Yirui

WANG Han WANG Xiangyi

CHEN Tong

ZHANG Wenyu

WONG Wai Tung Augustine

LEONG On Ian

DU Jiani

ZHANG Yandan

WU Geyu

LI Huanyang

HUI Chun To

BAN Han

YU Keying

LI Sze Yin

LI Pak Wah

CHENG Tsz Ho

LO Lung Ha

LI Ziyuan

CHU Long Yin

OUYANG Mingyue

LIM Wing Kwan

HUANG Xinyi

TANG Ziyu

NG Andy

LI Yumeng

WANG Jingyao

SHEN Junxian

LU Ling

XIE Haocheng

SUN Xiaofei

MAK Kai Fung

WEI Ka Ting

YAN Chi Hong

WONG Hei Lui, Helen WU Fan XIONG Yuchen YAN Jiayan YAO Renyue

MSc(Cons) Msc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

KWOK Sin Yan

WONG Sze Yui

BA(LS)

Year 1

CHAN King Yeung

Master of Science in Conservation MSc(Cons)

Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design MSc(SED)

CHAN Huggins

GAO Yiqian

LI Yicheng

BAO Shutong

SHAO Qiang

FONG Kwan Kiu

HUANG Limiao

WANG Keyue

CHEN Jingdan

SHU Yulong

HO Grace Yan Yu

LIU Huanyi

ZHONG Xianyi

GONG Yiru

SONG Peng

LAN Xingyi

WUN Sze Chun

CHUNG Keng Chin

GUO Jiayi

XING Dianchen

LI Jianbiao

CHEN Jiayu

LAU Yan Tung

HU Qimei

XU Yaqi

LO Chui Sim

CHEN Yintong

TAN Huiwen

JIANG Tianyilan

YIN Xuewen

LO Fung Yee

ZHANG Lanyu

WANG Tsun Ming

LI Tingxuan

YUAN Yiming

PU Yujing

ZHU Yu

CAO Keli

LIU Qi Nuo

ZHANG Xinyue

WANG Ziyuan

CHENG Xuan

LI Binyue

LIU Qingqing

ZHU Hengjun

WONG Philip King Hei

HE Xiansen

LI Penghao

LIU Xinyuan

ZHU Zhengyi

ZHAO Chenyue

JI Weile

YANG Ruxi

LU Yi

ZHAO Shihui

198

YAN Mengshi

LUO Yanqi

JIAN Wanling

PAN Daqi

199

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture PDLA

XI Staff + Student

Research Seminar Series

PhD Students

MLA / PDLA

MLA / PDLA

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

WANG Han LI Ziming WANG Chuzhen LU Huan QIAO Lin LI Jiali

BA(LS)

BA(LS)

LIU Xueming SATTAYANURAK Kanisa WANG Renfeng LI Yilun CHEN Xinhui ZENG Wenxin

NON-ACADEMIC STAFF

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

LEUNG Wing Man Athena

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

CHEUNG Cho Ho Tony

Project Officer (Staff grants)

LAI Yuen Chun Spandy

Office Attendant

LAM Mei Mei May

200

MSc(SED)

MSc(SED)

LO Mei Ling Christine MSc(Cons)

MSc(Cons)

Administrative Assistant

201

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