HKU Landscape Yearbook 2022-2023

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T The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

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Introduction Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 14 Master of Landscape Architecture.............................................................................................................. 16 Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture................................................................................ 20 Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies...................................................................................................... 24 Master of Science in Conservation............................................................................................................ 28 Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design..................................................................... 32

Introduction to Landscapes Design...........................................................................................................114 Environment and Communities of the City..............................................................................................115 Landscape Media I..........................................................................................................................................116 Landscape Media II.........................................................................................................................................118 Landscape Systems........................................................................................................................................120 Landscape Architecture Intensive............................................................................................................. 122

Master of Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies

Landscape Thesis............................................................................................................................................ 38 Landscape Design Studio I........................................................................................................................... 52 Landscape Design Studio IIA....................................................................................................................... 58 Landscape Design Studio IIB........................................................................................................................ 62 Landscape Design Studio IIIA...................................................................................................................... 66 Landscape Design Studio IIIB...................................................................................................................... 70 Landscape Design Studio IIIC.......................................................................................................................74 Landscape Design Studio IIID...................................................................................................................... 78 Landscape History and Theory I................................................................................................................. 82 Landscape History and Theory II................................................................................................................ 83 Thesis Preparation........................................................................................................................................... 84 Landscape Architecture Practice................................................................................................................ 85 Landscape Technology I............................................................................................................................... 86 Landscape Technology II.............................................................................................................................. 88 Landscape Plants and Ecology I.................................................................................................................. 90 Landscape Plants and Ecology II................................................................................................................. 91 Elective : Urban Arboriculture...................................................................................................................... 92 Elective : Horticulture and Design.............................................................................................................. 93 Elective : Advanced Topics in Sustainability............................................................................................ 94 Elective : Advanced Topics in Landscape History................................................................................. 96 Elective : Landscape Psychology, Behavior, and Well-being............................................................. 97 Elective : Components of Sustainable Landscape Design.................................................................. 98 Elective : Case Studies in Contemporary Landscape Architecture................................................... 99

Landscape Design Studio VI.......................................................................................................................128 Landscape Design Studio I.......................................................................................................................... 132 Landscape Design Studio II ........................................................................................................................136 Landscape Design Studio III........................................................................................................................140 Landscape Design Studio IV.......................................................................................................................144 Plants and Planting Design I........................................................................................................................148 Plants and Planting Design II.......................................................................................................................150 Ecology and Sustainability........................................................................................................................... 152 Landscape Technology................................................................................................................................153 Landscape Representation I........................................................................................................................154 Landscape Representation II......................................................................................................................156 Landscape Representation III.....................................................................................................................158 Landscape Representation IV.....................................................................................................................160 Faculty Interdisciplinary Course - Get Inspired!....................................................................................162 Faculty Interdisciplinary Course - Reaching Out...................................................................................163

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture Foundation Design Studio I.........................................................................................................................104 Foundation Design Studio II........................................................................................................................108 Landscape Technologies and Techniques...............................................................................................112 5

Master of Science in Conservation Conservation Relaunch.................................................................................................................................168 Conservation Thesis....................................................................................................................................... 170 Conservation Planning and Management Studio................................................................................. 176 Design for Conservation Studio................................................................................................................. 178 Critical Issues in Heritage Conservation..................................................................................................180 Charters and Legislation of Conservation................................................................................................181 Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation..............................................................................182 Built Heritage and Its Significance.............................................................................................................183 Conservation and Assessment Techniques............................................................................................184 Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development...........................................................................185 Materials and Technologies in Conservation.........................................................................................186 Elective : Cultural Landscapes..................................................................................................................... 187 6

Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design Dissertation.......................................................................................................................................................192 Design for a Changing Climate .................................................................................................................196 Bioclimatic Building Design ........................................................................................................................ 197 Innovation and Smart Technology for Sustainable Development..................................................198 Environmental Simulation and Performance Assessment Tools I....................................................199 Environmental Simulation and Performance Assessment Tools II..................................................200 Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design......................................................... 202 City Risk and Resilience: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices............................................203 Elective : Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities.................................................204 Elective : Topical Study I in Environmental Design..............................................................................205

Common Core Curriculum Design on the Future : Sustainability of the Built Environment.........................................................210 The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment............................................................... 212 Nature in the City : Beyond the Concrete Jungle..................................................................................214 24 Frames : Communicating Ideas through Film...................................................................................216

Knowledge Exchange..........................................................................................................220 PhD........................................................................................................................................................236 Staff List........................................................................................................................................... 248

MLA Field Trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand 7

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MLA and BA(LS) Field Trip to Tai Tong AFCD Tree Nursery 9

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The University of Hong Kong Division of Landscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

Ivan Valin Head Division of Landscape Architecture The University of Hong Kong

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23

The 2022-2023 Annual for the Division of Landscape Architecture showcases the courses and student work within our three landscape programs: the Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies (BALS), the Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (PDLA), and the professionally-accredited Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA), as well as our two new Master of Science programs, the MSc in Conservation (MScCONS), and the MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design (MScSED).

The courses and work featured in the following pages describe the thoughtfully developed approaches we are taking to educate future professionals to guide our urban and natural environments towards more sustainable and resilient futures. Our five programs each hold a distinct educational mission and are led by a skilled and dedicated staff, whose knowledge and expertise are rooted in world-class research and innovative design practice. Landscape architecture in the Division—always executed in broad terms—is evolving to engage urban and ecological systems; planning, policy, and advocacy; data and digital tools; and material, historical, and cultural networks through a unique blend of creative strategy, applied research, and design. In 2023, we celebrated 30 years of landscape architecture education at the University of Hong Kong and recognized a generation of alumni who are involved in projects across the region as professionals, educators, and advocates. The newly expanded and interdisciplinary agenda presented in this annual begins to position us for the next 30 years, during which rapidly-shifting climate and social change challenge the contexts and priorities of our work, while technological disruption reshapes the contours of our discipline.

園境建築學部2022-2023年展示了我們以下三個園境課程的科目和 學生作品：園境學文學士 (BALS)、園境建築深造文憑 (PDLA)、 受專業認可的園境建築碩士 (MLA)，以及我們兩個新的理科碩士課 程——保育碩士 (MScCONS) 和可持續環境設計碩士 (MScSED)。 以下展示的科目和工作描述了我們經過深思熟慮後用來培育未來專 業人士的方法，引導我們的城市和自然環境邁向更可持續和更具彈 性的未來。我們的五個課程各自擁有獨特的教育使命，由經驗豐富 且專業的教職人員領導，他們的學問及專業知識源於世界一流的研 究和創新設計的實踐。總是以廣義的方式開展工作的園境建築學 部，正在不斷發展與城市和生態系統接軌；參與規劃、政策制定和 宣傳；採用數據和數位工具；透過創意策略、應用研究和設計的獨 特融合，建立物料、歷史和文化網絡。在2023年，我們慶祝香港大 學園境建築教育三十年，並表彰了一代校友，他們作為專業人士、 教育工作者和倡導者參與了整個地區的項目。該年鑑呈現的新發展 和跨學科議程，為我們未來三十年的定位打下基礎，屆時迅速變化 的氣候和社會改變將挑戰我們工作的情境和優先事項，同時顛覆的 技術將重新塑造我們對學科的認知。 我們要向園境建築學系的所有學生、教師、助教和行政人員表示感 謝，他們今年再次為卓越品質而全情投入辛勤工作。

We would like to extend our gratitude to all the students, instructors, teaching assistants, and administrators for their hard work and dedication to excellence in the Division of Landscape Architecture once again this year.

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香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23

Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA) ECHEVERRI Natalia Senior Lecturer MLA/ PDLA Program Director

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is a two-year postgraduate degree in landscape architecture accredited by the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. Our program is distinguished by a commitment to teaching landscape architecture as an interdisciplinary field of study in which core competencies of landscape architecture are examined alongside developments in planning, conservation, urbanism and ecology.

The MLA curriculum is structured around engaging the critical social, economic and environmental issues shaping Southeast Asia and the greater Pearl River Delta today. Within this context, our approach to landscape architecture is one that spans from the urban to the rural, in which issues of density and development necessitate novel social and ecological solutions. By utilising problem-based approaches to learning and by emphasising critical, research-informed design practices, we prepare our students to take leadership roles as scholars, teachers, and practitioners.

The MLA courses are organised into themed tracks which include design studio, history and theory, technology, and media. Foundation studios explore landscape systems, urban ecology and the formal and informal dimensions of the public realm. One of the two core studios takes students to regions in Southeast Asia in order to carry out fieldwork and engage with local communities in places where landscape issues intersect with rapid development and urbanisation. Final-year studios explore themes of landscape infrastructure, urban design, and environmental planning. The MLA education culminates in an independent thesis project in which students articulate a critical position within the discipline of landscape architecture and test the proposition through a design and research process.

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園境碩士課程 (MLA) 園境碩士學位課程為期兩年，得到香港園境師學會的認證。我們的 課程以致力將景觀建築學作為一個跨學科的研究領域而著稱，密切 關注當下城市規劃、保護、城市化和生態學的發展來檢視學科的核 心競爭力。 園境碩士課程圍繞影響當今東南亞和大珠江三角洲地區的重要社會 、經濟和環境問題。在這種背景下，我們的園境設計教學涵蓋從城 市到農村的各種場景，其中密度和發展問題需要新的社會和生態解 決方案。我們採用以問題為本的學習方法，強調批判性和基於研究 的設計實踐，培養學生在研究、教學和實踐方面擔當領導角色。 課程根據主題進行安排，包括設計課、歷史和理論、技術工藝以及 設計媒體。基礎設計課探索景觀系統，城市生態以及公共領域的正 式和非正式維度。另一個核心設計課將學生帶到東南亞地區進行實 地考察並與當地社區建立聯繫，這些地區的景觀問題常與快速發展 和城市化相互影響。第三學期的設計課將探討景觀基礎設施，城市 設計和環境規劃等主題。課程結束前，學生需要在最後一個學期獨 立完成一項綜合設計與研究的畢業設計。在這個項目中，學生要清 晰闡述自己在該學科的批判性立場並通過設計和研究進行檢驗。

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

Master in Landscape Architecture 園境碩士課程 MLA Syllabus 課程大綱

Landscape Design Courses 園境設計課程

Technology Courses 技術課程

History and Theory Courses 歷史與理論課程

Visual and Communication Courses 視覺傳達課程

* MLA Prerequisite begins in mid-August before the beginning of the first semester * 園境建築碩士預備課程於第一學期之前的八月中旬開始。

Year 1 一年級

Year 2 二年級

Landscape Design Studio I

Landscape Design Studio III

Landscape History and Theory I

Thesis Prep

Landscape Plants and Ecology I

Landscape Technology II

Landscape Technology I

Elective

Semester 2 第二學期

Semester 2 第二學期

Landscape Design Studio II

Landscape Thesis

Landscape History and Theory II

Landscape Architecture Practice

Landscape Plants and Ecology II

Elective

Landscape Media

Elective

Semester 1 第一學期

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Elective or Other Courses 選修課及其他

Semester 1 第一學期

MLA Field Trip to Hakka village of Yung Shue Au MLA Final Thesis Review

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture (PDLA) ECHEVERRI Natalia Senior Lecturer MLA/ PDLA Program Director

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. Today’s landscape architectural practice needs to confront increasingly complex challenges arising from climate change, rapid urbanisation, and increasing social inequality in diverse social and ecological environments. As the scope and methods of the field expand and evolve, landscape architects are required more than ever to work with multidisciplinary teams of built environment experts to derive design solutions through innovative platforms. By creating new pathways for students with non-traditional academic backgrounds and experiences to enter the field, the PDLA aims to generate a multi-skilled cohort capable of bridging traditional disciplinary boundaries and expanding the profession from within.

The PDLA curriculum is constructed around a broad approach to landscape architecture with studios and theory courses drawing especially on both international and regional case studies. The curriculum is organised around a sequence of studios introducing students to a set of critical methods for observing, analysing and reshaping the physical environment. Studios are designed in conjunction with lectures and seminars on history and theory, visual communication, and landscape technology that help to expand and contextualise design knowledge. The majority of students who have completed the PDLA have gone on to enrol in the Division’s own MLA program or in other overseas postgraduate landscape programs.

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園境深造文憑課程 (PDLA) 園境深造文憑是一個為期一年的集中強化課程，本課程旨在向環境 設計領域尚未有學習經驗的學生介紹園境建築設計的基本技能、理 論和概念。當代的景觀實踐與學術研究面臨著城市、郊區和農村發 展的複雜問題，牽涉形形色色的文化、經濟和生態環境，並通過創 新平臺，與多學科團隊合作開展工作。隨著範圍和方法的不斷擴大 和發展，該領域必須接納多元化的從業人員來應對這些挑戰。園境 深造文憑課程為具有非傳統學術背景和經驗的學生開闢進入該領域 的新途徑，旨在培養一支能夠跨越傳統學科界限並由內而外擴展專 業領域的多技能隊伍。 園境深造文憑的全部課程是圍繞園境建築學科廣泛和全球性的議題 而構建的，初期的設計課和理論課程尤其借鑒了國際和地區的案例 研究。課程大綱圍繞一系列的設計課進行組織安排，向學生介紹了 觀察、分析和重塑物理環境的一套關鍵方法。設計課與歷史和理 論、視覺傳達和園境建築技術課程的內容緊密相連；這些課程也得 以將設計課的外延進行擴展並使其脈絡化。在完成深造文憑課程 後，大多數學生都被錄取進入本學部的園境碩士項目深造，或者赴 海外繼續研習景觀高級課程。

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture 園境深造文憑課程 PDLA Syllabus 課程大綱

Landscape Design Courses 園境設計課程

Technology Courses 技術課程

History and Theory Courses 歷史與理論課程

Visual and Communication Courses 視覺傳達課程

* Landscape Architecture Intensive begins in mid-August before the beginning of the first semester * 園境建築强化課程於第一學期之前的八月中旬開始。

Year 1 一年級

Semester 1 第一學期 Landscape Architecture Intensive*

Foundation Design Studio I

Histories of Landscape

Landscape Systems

Landscape Media I

Semester 2 第二學期 Foundation Design Studio II

Environment and Communities of the City

Landscape Technologies and Techniques

Landscape Media II

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PDLA Site Visit to King’s Park.

PDLA Site Visit to Pui O, Lantau Island

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香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies (BA(LS)) MAK Vincci Senior Lecturer BA(LS) Program Director

The Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies program at the University of Hong Kong equips students with a curriculum that emphasises design, landscape technology, history and theory, and visual communications. We aim to give students a comprehensive grounding in the knowledge, concepts and skills that landscape architects commonly require to deal with the complex community, ecological and developmental issues within diverse urban and natural environments.

The BA(LS) program is studio-based, allowing students to work directly with Instructor in design projects and guided research studies that integrate both theoretical exploration and practical implementation. 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.

The program starts with an interdisciplinary view of the built environment that trains students in critical observation skills and visual communication. In the second year, students experiment with making, scale, experiences, and materials, acquiring a foundational vocabulary in the phenomenological, material, and spatial aspects of landscape. The final two years expand in complexity as students are confronted with ecological, sociological, urban, and infrastructural aspects within the design studio while building theoretical and technical competency to complement the design studio.

園境學文學士課程 (BA(LS)) 香港大學園境學文學士課程為學生提供了一份強調設計、園境建築 技術、歷史和理論以及視覺傳達的課程大綱。為了應對不同的城市 與自然環境下複雜的社群、生態和發展問題，園境建築領域通常對 知識、概念和技能均有要求；我們的目標正是讓學生在這些知識、 概念、技能方面奠定全面的基礎。園境學文學士項目以設計課為基 礎，允許學生在整合了理論探索和實踐應用的設計項目和指導性研 究學習中直接與導師合作。設計課與其他同時展開的理論和技術課 程緊密相連；這些課程既增強了園境建築學科的核心知識，又拓寬 了學生跨學科的視野。 園境學文學士課程從建成環境的跨學科觀察開始，培養學生的批判 性觀察技能和視覺傳達能力。第二年，學生們嘗試製作、測量、體 驗材料，學習表述景觀現象、材料和空間方面的基本詞彙。後兩 年，學生在設計課要應對生態、社會、城市和基礎建設各方面的問 題，並補充增強理論和技術能力，學習的複雜程度也相應增加。通 過現場參觀和實地考察，學生得以接觸各種各樣的環境。 此外，園境建築學部與海外各先進的景觀課程積極合作，為學生提 供了與世界各地同行交流的機會。

Students are exposed to a wide range of environments through site visits and field trips, and the Division actively collaborates with other leading landscape programs overseas to offer opportunities for students to engage with their peers from around the world.

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies 園境學文學士課程 BA(LS) Syllabus 課程大綱

Landscape Design Courses 園境設計課程

Technology Courses 技術課程

Elective or Other Courses 選修課及其他

History and Theory Courses 歷史與理論課程

Visual and Communication Courses 視覺傳達課程

Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses 學院跨學科課程

Year 1 一年級

Year 2 二年級

Year 3 二年級

Year 4 四年級

On Agendas

Landscape Design Studio I

Landscape Design Studio III

Landscape Design Studio V

Landscape Representation I

Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Site Engineering

Plants and Planting Design II

English Language Course

English Language Course

Landscape Representation III

Elective

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Elective

Semester 2 第二學期

Semester 2 第二學期

Semester 2 第二學期

Semester 2 第二學期

On Methods

Landscape Design Studio II

Landscape Design Studio IV

Landscape Design Studio VI

Plants and Planting Design I

Environment, Community and Design

Strategic Landscape Planning

Elective

Chinese Language Course

Ecology & Sustainability

Landscape Representation IV

Elective

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Common Core Course

Elective

Semester 1 第一學期

Semester 1 第一學期

Semester 1 第一學期

Semester 1 第一學期

Introduction to Landscape Design

Landscape Representation II

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Master of Science in Conservation SHETABI Linda Lecturer Msc(Cons) Program Director

In 2000, the Master of Science in Architectural Conservation Program (MSc(Conservation)) was established at HKU to provide professional training for conservation practitioners. Today we continue that legacy and strive to ensure that our students’ experience is engaging, supportive, and academically challenging.

In 2018, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay described the many new challenges faced by heritage professionals. These ranged from the transformations of the fourth industrial revolution which blurs the lines between digital, biological and physical spheres, to global demographic shifts, and to unfolding climate change, all of which have profound impacts on the ways we can protect our most valuable heritage assets for future generations.

These global challenges and shifts in understandings have required heritage professionals to develop a broader interdisciplinary understanding of heritage and a more comprehensive toolset for heritage conservation. Towards that end, the MSc Conservation program has been relaunched in 2022 to broaden and deepen built heritage and landscape conservation teaching and research within the Faculty of Architecture. The new curriculum, which emphasises the integration of heritage with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aims to equip students with the technical competencies and intellectual skills required to guide decision-making in conservation planning, design and management in the 21st century.

建築文物保護理學碩士 (Msc(Conservation)) 香港大學於2000年開辦建築文物保護理學碩士課程，為文物保護從 業人員提供專業培訓。如今，我們繼續傳承這一傳統，努力確保學 生的學習經歷具有吸引力、支持性和學術挑戰性。 2018年，聯合國教科文組織總幹事奧黛麗-阿祖萊描述了遺產專業人 員面臨的許多新挑戰。這些挑戰包括第四次工業革命帶來的變革（ 它模糊了數字、生物和物理領域之間的界限）、全球人口結構的變 化以及正在發生的氣候變化，所有這些都對我們為子孫後代保護最 寶貴遺產的方式產生了深遠影響。 這些全球性的挑戰和認識上的轉變，要求遺產專業人員對遺產有更 廣泛的跨學科理解，並掌握更全面的建築保育知識工具。為此，建 築學院於 2022 年重新推出了建築文物保護理學碩士課程，以擴大 和深化建築遺產和景觀保護的教學與研究。新課程強調將遺產與可 持續發展目標（SDGs）相結合，旨在培養學生在21世紀指導保護規 劃、設計和管理決策所需的技術能力和知識技能。 香港大學在建築、園林、規劃和建築施工方面擁有國際公認的專業 知識，為培養全面的文物保護專業人才和未來的文物領袖，提供了 理想的跨學科環境。

With its internationally recognised expertise in architecture, landscape architecture, planning and building construction, HKU provides an ideal interdisciplinary setting for educating wellrounded conservation professionals and future heritage leaders.

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Master of Science in Conservation 建築文物保護理學碩士 MSc (Conservation) Syllabus 課程大綱

Year 1 一年級

Core Courses 核心課程

Conservation Planning and Management 保育規劃與管理

Capstone Experience 總結式課程

Design for Conservation 建築保育設計

Semester 1 第一學期

Summer Semester 暑期學期

CONS8120 - Built Heritage and Its Significance

CONS8215 - Conservation Thesis (Capstone experience)

Elective or Other Courses 選修課及其他

CONS8103 - Charters and Legislation of Conservation

CONS8124 - Conservation and Assessment Techniques

CONS8117 - Methods of Heritage Research and Interpretation

Elective

Semester 2 第二學期 CONS8216 - Critical Issues in Heritage Conservation

Stream 1

Stream 2

CONS8220 - Conservation Planning and Management Studio

CONS8221 - Design for Conservation Studio

CONS8222 - Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development

CONS8223 - Materials and Technologies in Conservation

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23

Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design REN Chao Associate Professor MSc(SED) Program Director

CHEN Bin Assistant Professor MSc(SED) Deputy Program Director

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.

We have offered the Master of Science (MSc) Program in Sustainable Environmental Design 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 supervisors.

Candidates are also expected with the educational background in built environment disciplines (architecture, civil engineering, building science and technology, landscape architecture, urban studies, etc.) and/or fields (e.g. environmental science, mathematics, computer science, business, management, and social sciences). our MScSED program has been designed with a view to combining specialist study and a broad-based training in professional reflection, assessment, and research methods taught by world-class scholars and well-known professionals. Details of our program can be found under the section of courses.

可持續環境設計理學碩士 (MSc (SED)) 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導 致迫切需要和機會重新思考我們如何以更高效、更有效和低成本的 方式設計、建設和管理我們的城市。 自2022年秋季以來，我們開設了理科碩士(可持續環境設計) [MSc(SED)]課程。就讀於我們的授課式研究生學位的學生將接受 科學研究和技術技能方面的培訓，並在知名導師團隊的指導下進行 獨立研究。候選人還應具有建築環境學科（建築、土木工程、建築 科學與技術、景觀建築、城市研究等）和/或領域（例如環境科學、 數學、計算機科學、商業、管理、和社會科學）。我們的 MScSED 計劃旨在將專業研究與由世界級學者和知名專業人士教授的專業反 思、評估和研究方法方面的廣泛培訓相結合。我們計劃的詳細信息 可以在課程部分找到。 可持續城市化日益成為城市設計、建設、開發和管理成功的關鍵， 也是設計競賽、承包商簡報、公共政策和規劃的重要組成部分。我 想藉此機會感謝您對我們計劃的興趣，並希望您能與我們一起學習 促進設計創新和智能技術，為我們的星球和我們的下一代創造更好 的生活環境和更可持續的未來。

Sustainable urbanization is increasingly a key to successful city design, construction, development, and management and an important component of design competitions, contractor's briefs, public policy and planning. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in our program and hope you'll join us in learning to promote design innovation and smart technology for creating a better living environment and more sustainable future for our planet and our next generation

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

Master of Science in Sustainable Environmental Design 可持續與環境設計理學碩士課程 MSc(SED) Syllabus 課程大綱

Dissertation Courses 論文課程

Core Courses 必修課程

Elective Courses 選修課程

Semester 1 第一學期 SEED6104 Dissertation Part 1 (Capstone Experience)

SEED6203 Designing for a Changing Climate

SEED6101 Bioclimatic Building Design

SEED6103 Environmental Simulation and Performance Assessment Tools

SEED6303 Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities

Semester 2 第二學期 SEED6204 Dissertation Part II (Capstone Experience)

SEED6201 Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design

SEED6202 City Risk and Resilience: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices

SEED6102 Innovation and Smart Technology for Sustainable Development

SEED6305 Topical Study I in Environmental Design

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Master of Landscape Architecture MLA

園境碩士課程

The University of Hong Kong Division of Landscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23 Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

ARCH7299

Landscape Thesis

Thesis coordinator : KELLY Ashley Scott Thesis advisors : CHEN Bin ECHEVERRI Natalia HILGEFORT Jason JIANG Bin KELLY Ashley Scott LU Xiaoxuan MAK Vincci PRYOR Mathew REN Chao SHETABI Linda TRUMPF Susanne VALIN Ivan

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 very much 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 formal research statement, case studies, and literature review. Students work with their advisor through one of several tracks of landscape research that help align students’ interests and ambitions broadly with their advisors’ domains of knowledge. Student theses this year resounded landscape architecture’s principal role in bridging the architectural, civil engineering, and planning fields with ecological science and environmental conservation.

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

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23 Glacial Mudslide Amplifier X-celerate Landscape Interventions from Disaster to Renewal

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Student : QIN Qianqian Rita Advisor : ECHEVERRI Natalia

ARCH7299 / Landscape Thesis Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Ecology during Chronic Emergency: Reconsidering Nature in International Guidelines for displaced Peoples along the Thai-Myanmar Border

Student : ZHAI Qifei Frances Advisor : KELLY Ashley Scott

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A New Urban Ecology

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Source: Increasing passive rainwater collection Increase roof rainwater collection Increase traffic rainwater collection

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Business women Blue-green infrastructure Allow absorption, storage, purification of water and release Blue-green infrastructure

I want more flowers and place for me to sit and enjoy the view.

within the area Total number of species within the area Total variety of genes within a single species Total variety of genes

the region NUS Ventus Garden Unique Ecosystem Ecological survey/ i.e. Ecosystems that occur here Unique Ecosystem Landscape analysis/ Ecological survey/ and nowhere else the world i.e.

Ecosystems thatin occur here (an Modellinganalysis/ study Landscape aspect of ecosystem diversity) and nowhere else in the world (an Modelling study aspect of ecosystem diversity)

+

More maintenance in needed when there are more usage.

Closer to the core of the urban, less wild the planting can be. Because it might conflict with human activities.

Phase 1. Pilot tests

Genetic Divesity

Biota habitat Soil Services E.g. Services Food production, Soil Wilding City GardensE.g. Food Waterproduction, quality protection Carbon capture & storage Water quality protection Carbon capture & storage

a Oxalis corniculata 酢醬草

h

Roadside planting urban district is hard to achieve.

Space is too precious in Hong Kong. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic always win in greening master plan implementation.

a

Species Richness (Entire Region)

Engagement activities for the public

Sponsor

I think the landscape is better to be colourful, so that when people take photo in the landscape, they can become younger and more energetic.

Identify the preferable landscape elements in wild landscapes

Biodiversity Biodiversity

Physical Chemical Soil Physical HealthChemical Soil Test Health Test Biological

High density private area The London Rewilding Taskforce was brought together to explore opportunities for rewilding in London to support nature recovery and enhance biodiversity, while bringing benefits to Londoners and addressing the climate and ecological emergency.

London

IMPLEMENTATION ST

Maintenance:

Removal of leucaena, pruning of overgrowths Persicaria chinensis 火炭母

Education & e ng

Fail a nd re

h

Adding slightly raised boardwalks to enjoy scenic views while enhancing feelings of safety

Horticulturalist

UN target (Ideal) 50 sqm

London Rewilding Taskforce

Perception studies Volunteer i Member Engagement activities for the public

e e

Soil scientist Landscape

architect Urban Forest Urban plannerCapita (sqm) per

Rewilding initiative to explore low maintenance and high Parameter Measurement biodiversityParameter in urban landscapes. Sites are Measurement chosen for planting and Total number of species letSpecies spontaneous flourish Richnessplants (Entire Region)simultaneously.

b

plants database

f

Arborist

2

floral and faunal changes Private landscape contractorb Monitoring Government

Cooperate with d None to low maintenance Cooperate with oversea experts d oversea experts

Engineer Educator

2.5

Singapore

Water filtration Soil Functions E.g. Functions Plant growth support, Soil Biotagrowth habitatsupport, E.g. Plant

Design And Management & Considerations Documentation Documentation plants database & f

3

Soil Health Soil Health

E.g. Soil respiration, Aggregate stability Soil Processes E.g. Processes Organic matter decomposition Soil Water filtration E.g. Organic matter decomposition

+

It is important to have trained

created competition to our City scale mapping & Modelling studies conflict with human activities. existing ornamental plants.

5

Pub li

Involving oversea professional in projects

Provide training personnel architects, horticulturists, ecologists) Closer to thefor core of the (e.g. soil scientists, thelandscape needs of Hong Kong.

We approach, tree are generally g Education the public urban, lessprogram wild thefor planting did weeding because they more self-sustain than shrubs.

Public landscape contractor

19 11

Measurement Measurement

Government building Existing condition

Paederia foetida 雞屎藤

Urban planner

+

Ascertain the acceptable degree of wildness in different urban green space contexts

Education & e ng

Pub bli li

Involving oversea professional in projects

Provide training (e.g. soil scientists, landscape architects, ecologists) when therefor arepersonnel more usage. horticulture personnelhorticulturists, to suit From our present design

g can Education program for the public be. Because it might

23 11

Hanoi

Jakarta

Man Cheong Street Park

Public evaluation of unmanaged greenery (ecosystem services, ecology, aesthetics)

dge upg rad owle Kn e

ducation EdEucation & e& en n g Pu g

Knowledge exchange with oversea experts

180 sqm

Ecologist

fessions Pro

e e More maintenance neededupdate Documentation andin database

160

Parking lot

Wedelia trilobata 三裂葉蟛蜞菊

Infitration and storage

Soil scientist Landscape architect

Arborist

Butterflies and bees, insect Horticulturalist pollinators.

t rac

d d

Knowledge exchange with oversea experts

Functional trait assessment on pilot sites Documentation and database update

- Narrow with little growing medium - Usually next to the car park, easy-to-capture water - Chainlink fence as vertical climbing net

Potential biodiversity:

lementation mp di ice

d d

f f

ly pp

London

c Testing design/ management strategies c Testing design/ management strategies

su

Research on worldwide examples and theories Functional trait assessment on pilot sites

Seoul Tokyo Manila

Engineer

The London Rewilding Taskforce was brought together to explore Parameter opportunities for rewilding in London to support nature recovery Design and management guidelines Parameter Soil Properties and enhance biodiversity, while bringing benefits to E.g.

Londoners Soil respiration, Design and management guidelines and addressing the climate and ecological emergency.Soil Properties Aggregate stability

als iner

b Monitoring biodiversity on pilot sites Research on worldwide examples and theories

140

166

Bangkok Hong Kong (Exclude Country Park)

Phase 3. Further establishment Phase 3. Further establishment

Adding new species based on pilot performance

Site condition:

1. Removal of leucaena 2. Widen paving and improve soil structure 3. Apply seed, mix seed with soil, apply cutting of climbers and tie them on fences

OVERSEA CASE STUDIES

Vertical traffic

t rac

Infrastructure edges Railroad and river corridors Landscape Degraded wetlands architect Abandoned parks Successional woodlands

Setting pilot sites b Monitoring biodiversity on pilot sites

120

Metrics To Evaluate Urban Ecology Metrics To Evaluate Urban Ecology OVERSEA CASE STUDIES

Adding new species based on pilot performance

infiltration&storage

Engineer

Engineer

Small storage capacity Rewild design steps:

Underground tank

Chainlink Fences

Educator

105

lementation mp di ice

Ecology

Identify the preferable landscape elements in wild landscapes

Disturbed and compacted fill Nutrient poor Often contains construction rubbleg g Design and management May be contaminated Design and management guidelines Low to moderate biological diversity guidelines

c Roadside planting urban district is hard to achieve. c Space is too precious in Hong Kong. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic always win More studies in greening master plan Abandoned land Moreindustrial studies Vacantimplementation. lots

ly

ta racr

leemnetanttiaotnion lepm mpim d i d iccteice

Spontaneous and Educationnative program non-native species

Monitoring floral & Moderate to floral intensive faunal changes Monitoring & maintenance faunal changes

Review of existing guildlines, law and regulations a Setting up local nursery for spontaneous species Setting pilot sites

100

Port

Interview Objectives

88

Whose 66 special expertise will be needed 44

UN target (Minimum) 9.5 sqm

Phase 2. Application Phase 2. Application

Review of existing guildlines, law and regulations

Existing condition

Road user

Shop owner

50

Delhi

Soil

pp

Testin

Phase 1. Pilot tests Phase 1. Pilot tests

su

ent

Tgreenery esting an Perception studies em nt Public evaluation of unmanaged ga ag eme Perception studies (ecosystem services, ecology, aesthetics) ag c P n P c New Ascertain the acceptable degree of New Abandoned landscapes wildness ruderal in different urbanUrban green space Urban contexts Ecology Education program h

Residential gardens Corporate, commercial, and educational landscapes

0 20 40 60 80 Stakeholders Shrubland Hong Kong (Include Country Park) Woodland 26.86 sq.km Beijing 2.4% Whose 113.44 sq.km Singapore Grassland 10.3% participation is needed Taipei 54.31 sq.km for credibility 4.9% Kuala Lumpur

Green cover in urban area

Soil

Intended species:

- little growing medium - Hot and tough growing environment, poor soil - easy-to-capture water - Lack of maintenance in this peripheral space

GO

Who affected by the decision

Hong Kong’s Greening Needs

Built-up area 907.52 sq.km 82.4%

r atte

als iner

New changes to the cycle

r atte

&m

Interview Objectives

ic m

Landscape work process

a Setting up local nursery for spontaneous species

FUND & PARTICIPATION

Local resident

contractor

Ageratum conyzoides 勝紅薊

Ageratum conyzoides Who 勝紅薊 assist with the public participation effort

Landscape architect

Green corridor for screening, and filter particulate

Ecologist

Permeable pavement Infitration and Transfer

Rainbox

Objective:

storage

Trimming of overgrowths

Site condition:

PERCEPTIONS

Public

Non- invasive

Fauna

Pollination

an

er Wat

Landscape process of SUPs

Large and small parks Setting up local nursery Cemeteries b Setting up local nursery Lawns Ball fieldsb

Feed

Flora Org

i

Engagement activities Nutrient-rich Highly manipulated soil Often manufactured or relocated from agricultural areas Moderate biological diversity

Oxalis corniculata 酢醬草 Oxalis corniculata 酢醬草

Rainbox

Community storage tank

3. Allow SUPs to grow Underground tank storage

Landscape architect

Fauna

Pollination

&m

Nitrogen fixation Photosynthesis Climate regulation

Weeding Apply herbicide

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY IN IN CITY’S CITY’S SCALE SCALE Managed horticultural landscapes i Cultivated plants and weeds Engagement activities

Persicaria chinensis 火炭母

Feed

Flora

Existing condition

Road user

Shop owner

Whose special expertise will be needed

CONDITION 2: A Temporal Green Corridor

1. Removal of existing brick paving

New Landscape work process 2. Place polystyrene paving unit changes to the cycle

Stakeholders Whose participation is needed for credibility

Maintenance:

Removal of leucaena, pruning

Removal of leucaena, pruning consultant Landscape of overgrowths

Persicaria chinensis 火炭母

Climate regulation

Landscape process of SUPs Rewild design steps:

Maintenance:

Maintenance: of overgrowthsLandscape

Guangzhou

Design process: Self-selected and survival of the fittest

PERCEPTIONS

Tolerant of prevailing site conditions

Promote Biodiversity (Soil Organisms, Flora, & Fauna)

Human obstruction

a a

Able to flouish without supplemental water

Photosynthesis Infitration and reuse

Roadside Paving

Site condition:

- little growing medium - Hot and tough growing environment, poor soil - easy-to-capture water - Lack of maintenance in this peripheral space

Local resident

Who affected by the decision

Non- invasive

Promote Biodiversity (Soil Organisms, Flora, & Fauna)

ic m

a

e

Coastline Existing condition Woodland Shrubland Habitat Stress Grassland

Adding the right element of landscape system

Aid ecological Succession

en

nc

Existing condition

Establishment: Seed dispersal & germination

Design

Establishment

t ain gM ucin

Weeding felling Low toTree moderate Compact ground soil maintenance Limit the plant growing area

Paederia foetida 雞屎藤

Green Cover In Urban Area= 17.6%

Preserve

Minimally disturbed woodlands, wetlands, and coastal habitat

Wedelia trilobata 三裂葉蟛蜞菊

Required minimal applications of pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers

Green Nitrogenroof fixation

Weeding Apply herbicide

Design process: Self-selected and survival of the fittest

Landscape contractor

Who assist with the public participation effort

Able to flouish without supplemental water

Tolerant of prevailing site conditions

Habitat Stress ON

er Wat

Public & Coastline Stakeholders Maintenance Woodland Shrubland Grassland

Wedelia trilobata Paederia foetida Deletions & Insertions 三裂葉蟛蜞菊 雞屎藤

species:

Green Cover

R ed

Native plants and invasive

Attitude

Affect

Taxonomy

Through out the process, this project explores species the future landscape architect’s role, the status Native nature soils within minimally of urban Hong Kong, and how the disturbed profiles institutional relationship between humans Free draining and Nutrient-poor nature in the urban landscape will be High biological diversity altered and reimagined through biophilic High mineral cycling strategy, framework, and design.

sign De

Maintenance:

Trimming of overgrowths

t an pl

DU

an Org

al gic lo

Trimming of overgrowths

Site condition:

The thesis intends to work with natural plants medium - little growing Site condition: - Hot and and tough growing environment, to enhance opportunities for sustainable - little growing medium poor soil - Hot and tough growing environment, diverse ecology in urban areas. Representative - easy-to-capture water poor soil - Lack of maintenance in this sample sites in the urban area are selected as a - easy-to-capture water peripheral space case study to test the intervention proposal of - Lack of maintenance in this Existing condition Result: peripheralby space overcoming the challenges brought Live with the Existing condition Land-use plants categoryand provide Primary vegetation Soil characteristics Maintenance requirements unintended opportunities landscape system for Mother Nature to take over the grey surface. Strategic phrasing plan and actions of landscapes theRemnant New Urban natural Ecology scheme suggest how changes can be made practically

Destabilization

Utilizing SUPs Natural Intended Succession species: Stabilization Principal Reorganization Intended

Rewild for visual impacts and urban mitigation

Butterflies and bees, insect Potential pollinators. biodiversity: Butterflies and bees, insect pollinators.

NW

Aid ecological Succession

e

Human obstruction

Objective:

Potential biodiversity:

1. Removal of leucaena Rewild design steps: Competition Objective: 2. Widen paving and improve soil structure Green corridor for screening, and filter particulate 1. of leucaena Unsightly and aggressive 3. Removal Apply seed, mix seed with soil, apply Plants that are unfriendly Site condition: andand improve soilon structure plants that perceived2. asWidenofpaving cutting climbers tie them fences or unhealthy for people - Narrow with little growing medium indicators of neglect 3. Apply seed, mix seed with soil, apply Site condition: - Usually next to the car park, easy-to-capture water cutting of climbers and tie them on fences -- Narrow with little medium net Chainlink fence asgrowing vertical climbing - Usually next to the car park, easy-to-capture water - Managing Chainlink fence asNovel vertical climbing net Through System

Disturbance

Ec o

Imitate ecology Maintenance:

Green corridor for screening, and filter particulate

a

1.Spread Removal of existing brick paving and growth, Rewild design steps: 2. Place polystyrene paving unit self-sustaining 1. Removal of bricktopaving 3.existing Allow SUPs grow 2. Place polystyrene paving unit 3. Allow SUPs to grow

Cover nature ground Plant trimming

Rewild design steps:

hazard trees

strangle trees

strategy, framework, and design.

Establishment: Seed dispersal & germination

Adding the right element of landscape system

Establishment

nc

Weeding Tree felling Compact ground soil Limit the plant growing area

Required minimal applications of pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers

Public

Landscape consultant

Managing Novel System Through Deletions & Insertions

Succession Stabilization Principal Reorganization

Objective:

Rewild for visual impacts and urban mitigation

Unsightly and aggressive plants that perceived as indicators of neglect

Plants that are unfriendly or unhealthy for people

Keeping a clear mown edges of Utilizing SUPs canopy to allow vehicles sight Natural line

Design

D N

en

Rewild for visual impacts and urban mitigation

Objective:

Objectives: Rewild design steps:

Sustainable & Rewild for visual impacts and urban Resilience Objective: mitigation Objective:

Public & Stakeholders

Preserve t ain gM ucin

PROJECT STRATEGY URBAN GREENING IN HONG KONG

CONDITION 2: A Temporal Green Corridor Roadside Paving Fences (2) How To Change?

(3) How To Get ChangesChainlink Accepted?

Diseased, seriously High- A climbing CONDITION 2: Temporal Green Corridor Roadside Paving Chainlink Fences damaged, and species that can

Maintenance

H GH D N

and nature in the urban landscape will Informal be CONDITION 1: An Planting Area altered and reimagined through biophilic

Competition

tran

WHOLE SECTION

Result: Live with the landscape system

Through out the process, this project explores the future landscape architect’s role, the status of urban nature in Hong Kong, and how the institutional relationship between humans

CONDITION 1: An Informal (1)Planting What ToArea Change?

CONDITION 1: An Informal Planting Area

Attitude

t an pl

R ed

Connect with existing stormwater drainage system

Urban rainwater collection area

The thesis intends to work with natural plants to enhance opportunities for sustainable and diverse ecology in urban areas. Representative sample sites in the urban area are selected as a case study to test the intervention proposal of overcoming the challenges brought by unintended plants and provide opportunities for Mother Nature to take over the grey surface. Strategic phrasing plan and actions of the New Urban Ecology scheme suggest how changes can be made practically

Destabilization

Allowing clusters of tall shrubs Disturbance to inhibit aggressive species growth

ns

Creating connected RWH system Community rainwater storage tank:332,608m3

Keep a clear edge near to the retention pond

Spread and growth, Allowing the growth of fruit trees Selective removal of tree Facility(playground) that attract a variety of fauna self-sustaining saplings that are too many e.g. Monrinda citrifolia Ec o Main rainwater pipe Imitate ecology

Affect

2030-2040 35%-4MCM

Cover nature ground Plant trimming

nt

STAGE 3

canopy to allow vehicles sight Keeping a clear mown edges of line canopy to allow vehicles sight line

Pruning of canopy Resilience edges near pathways

(3) How To Get Changes Accepted?

Diseased, seriously damaged, and hazard trees

High- climbing species that can strangle trees

co

Allowing clusters of tall shrubs to inhibit aggressive species Allowing clusters of tall shrubs growth to inhibit aggressive species growth Keeping a clear mown edges of

Objectives:

Sustainable &

USER

Removal of extensive creepers e.g. Mikania micrantha

Nut rie

GOV

Fail a nd re

Selective removal of tree saplings that are too many Selective removal of tree saplings that are too many

FUND & PARTICIPATION

Maintenance Regime (2) How To Change?

Thinning if groundcover/ grasses are too dense

fessions Pro

Allowing the growth of fruit trees that attract a variety of fauna Allowing the citrifolia growth of fruit trees e.g.

Monrinda that attract a variety of fauna e.g. Monrinda citrifolia

Keep a clear edge near to the retention pond Keep a clear edge near to the retention pond

Maintenance Regime Maintenance Regime

Removal of extensive creepers e.g. Mikania micrantha Removal of extensive creepers e.g. Mikania micrantha

Selectively allowing tree growth, to prevent dense shade inhibiting diversity of species Green roof

sign De

Pruning of canopy edges near pathways Pruning of canopy edges near pathways

Thinning if groundcover/ grasses are too dense Thinning if groundcover/ grasses are too dense

CONDITION 1: An Informal Planting

Infiltration basin

1.02 million hkd/year

al gic lo

Selectively allowing tree growth, to prevent dense shade Selectively allowing inhibiting diversity of tree species growth, to prevent dense shade inhibiting diversity of species

Insertions

Increase urban water culture:

PROJECT STRATEGY

Water levels in most urban (and non-urban) waterways are constantly in flux and the woody vegetation helps keep their banks intact.

Maintenance Regime Maintenance Regime Deletions Insertions

Bio-retention

Society Water fee: 9.32 million hkd/year

Initiative build and Rainbox roof Improve urban beauty: Maintenance Regime operation cost: 1.09 million hkd/year 25.21 million hkd/year (1) What To Change?

Deletions Insertions

Wat er

Economy

Biodiversity enhancement

Plants provide food and habitat for animals of all kinds; from the ecological pespective, the more flora, the more fauna.

Stream and riverbank stabilization

42

Sch 木荷

2. Soil testing and soil structure improvement

1st Year Objective:

Organic matter production

Ster 假蘋

Woodland Mix

outlet

10th Year 10th Year

h

Intended species:

Celtis sinensis 朴樹

Capactiy: 10,238 m

outlet

Deletions

- No general public access - Runoff from road surface and pollution from dusts and exhaults - Lack of water in winter’s dry period

Biodiversity enhancement

Social and educational contributions

By creating shade and transpiring water vapour, all trees significantly lower air temperature at the local scale, thereby making cities healthier and more livable for its inhabitants.

Ecological Benefit

Collection area: 442,971m3

Microbes break down plant litter into its compoent mineral nutrients that cycle through multiple levels of the soil ecosystem- an especially important function on sites with degraded soil.

- No general public access - Runoff from road surface and pollution from & PARTICIPATION dustsFUND and exhaults - Lack of water in winter’s dry period

4. Hydroseed SUPs species and 4. Hydroseed woodland mixSUPs species and woodland mix

Retained native existing trees Retained native existing trees

Space required

dge upg rad owle Kn e

1st Year 1st Year

Life Expectancy

Morrison Hill Road Playground

400m

- Between high-density blocks -Site Green space for community, used by human, condition: municipal may found - Between waste high-density blocks - Hot environment with low wild velocity Green space for community, used by human, -municipal Isolated planting bedfound waste may - Hot environment with low wild velocity - Isolated planting bed

Stormwater infiltration

Post-industrail land and urban wetlands are often contaminated with heavy Celtis sinensisAll plants perform these functions, but spontaneous vegetation takes care ofTrifolium L. Schima superba Bridelia tomentosa 木荷 metals and petrolum products; the plants that grow spontaneously on such 朴樹 itself and is therefore more sustainable 土密樹 than cultivated species that require 車軸草屬 sites have the capacity to help clean up that environment. ongoing maintenance.

Maintenance

SITE 2: A Defined Public Space

Rewild it as secondary woodland in long term

Hong Kong Island

SUPs List

Imperata cylindrica 白茅

Rewild it as secondary woodland in long term

Oldest urban district Under jurisdiction since 1842

Site condition:

Plantago major 車前草

Objective:

Long-term, large-scale environmental disturbances such as nitrogen deposition, climate change, urbanisation and invasive species that permanently alter ecological conditions.

Site condition:

Site condition:

Tolerate of both chronic stress that premanently alter ecological conditions and episodic disturbances that typically dissipate over time.

Berm

Green roof:970m2

Long-term, large-scale environmental disturbances such as Rewild as urban patch allowing organism to connect and move around in theclimate city, self- change, urbanisation and nitrogen deposition, Objective: sustaining community garden Rewild as urban patchthat allowing organism to alter ecological conditions. invasive species permanently connect and move around in the city, selfsustaining community Natural garden landscape

SITE 1: A Vacant City's Amenity We

Tsim Jessica Yuenting

Fill Soils

Objective:

Rainbox:3,492m3

Under jurisdiction since 1860

Outlet

All plants perform these functions, but spontaneous vegetation takes care of 3 vegetation is growing in soil, water infiltration is better than with Wherever itself and is therefore more sustainable than cultivated speciesCollection that require area: 465,404m pavement or bare, compacted soil.

3 ongoing maintenance.

Post-industrail land and urban wetlands are often contaminated with heavy metals and petrolum products; the plants that grow spontaneously on such sites have the capacity to help clean up that environment.

Bio-retention:3,300m2

Kowloon Peninsula

Box culvert or tunnel storm water

Chronic stress

Short-term, such as fire, wind, floods, logging and farming produce dramatic, short-term effects that typically dissipate over time.

Capactiy: 11,880 m3 Carbon sequestration & oxygen production

Mitigation of soil pollution

Morrison Hill Road Playground

since 1898

Student : FU Shiyi Andrianna Advisor : REN Chao

URBAN ECOLOGY AND OPPORTUNITIES

conditions and episodic Space disturbances that typically dissipate overBenefit time.

Life Expectancy required Ecological and dense modern buildings with certain commercial activities Active rainwater harvesting dominant Life Expectancy Space required Ecological Benefit Start from open and public area New Territories to increase public awareness Under jurisdiction Morrison Hill Road Playground

500m

1. No natural structure with distinct layers 2. Heavy and compacted (high bulk density) 3. Low organic matter content 4. High nutrient content 5. Low leveles of biological activity & nutrient cycling 6. Often chemically contaminated

SITE 1: A Vacant City's Amenity Western Harbour Crossing Highway Interchanges

2023-2025 26%

Places that are dominated by continuous

Fill Soils

Objective:

STAGE 1

375

III. Application +

DEMONSTRATION EXAMPLES

DEVELOPMENT STAGE

Built-up area Tolerate of both chronic stress that premanently alter ecological

Planned SUPsCultivated growing vigorously Neat Maintenance Rigid Implementation cost Stasis Implementation cost Maintenance Maintenance Creation Wrong perception of urban Old district- Sai Ying Pun landscape?

1. No natural structure with distinct layers 2. Heavy and compacted (high bulk density) 3. Low organic matter content Self-sustaining shrubs 4. High nutrient content 5. Low leveles of biological activity & nutrient cycling 6. Often chemically contaminated

2021 SITE 1: A Vacant City's Amenity Western Harbour200Crossing Highway Interchanges SITE 2: A Defined Public Space SITE 1: A Vacant City's Amenity Western Harbour0 Crossing Highway Interchanges SupportSITE 2: A Defined Public Space 2022

GLTMSstructures; distinct zones of biological activity 1. Layered development 2. Typically thin and porous (free draining) of 3. High organic matter content Trimmed shrubs 4. Low nutrient content 5. High levels of biological activity & nutrient cycling

New Landscape Practice

NOVEL ECOSYSTEM

Design

Spontaneous Wild Planted shrubs die off Messy Adaptive Flux Competition Evolution

800

? ? ?

on

1200

Resilient in the face of episodic disturbance DEMONSTRATION EXAMPLES but much less so in the face of chronic stress.

DEMONSTRATION EXAMPLES

Finding SUPs

New district- Tseung Kwan O

Wrong method of generating landscape?

on

NATIVE ECOSYSTEM

Natural

III. III. Application Application

1,274

1400

enomen Ph

1,468

1600

Support the development of

Episodic disturbances

SUP s

e ud

enomen Ph

Artificial

(in million)

SUP s

e ud

Planned Cultivated Neat Rigid Stasis Maintenance Creation

Native DSoils

2023 26%

3 The Application: How can the overlapped opportunities between the phenomenon and the attitude become possibility, and contradictory between them be narrowed down and applicable to the landscape practices?

Weeding

Watering

250

NOVEL ECOSYSTEM

Design

Spontaneous Wild Messy Adaptive Flux Competition Evolution

Resilient in the face of episodic disturbance

local yield/ overall drink but much less so in the face of chronic stress. water percentage

Tsim Jessica Yuenting Tsim Jessica Yuenting II. Natural Growth In Urban Greenery Clearing fallen leaves and debris

Trimming shrubs

Ecology

O

2027-Plan Elimination of flooding black spots

+

2 The Attitude: By understanding the public perception on ideal urban landscape and urban nature, to what extent and dimension do SUPs fit into the public's attitude?

g

OOD ON

Drainage Improvement Works

Total Water Management Strategy

Utilizing spontaneous growth for biodiverse green spaces in Hong Kong

125

DEMONSTRATION EX

FUTURE VISION

DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN YAU TSIM MONG

Research Questions

0

II. Natural Growth In Urban Greenery

Connect with existing stormwater drainage system

G

43

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23 Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Unnoticed Soils: Reshaping Soil Movement in Construction Activities

[Soil Movement]

[Formation of Soild Geology]

[Born and Development of Soil]

[Slight Soil Movement]

[Soil Movement]

Natural Soil-forming Process Weathering Organism Effects

Land Reclamation: Layers of fill material

Building Construction: Site Clearance Excavation of Basement

Major Intrusive Igneous

Natural Soil-forming Process: Weathering Organism Effects

Shallow Foundation: Intervening the surface soil

Deep Foundation: Site Clearance Piling and Excavation

Sea Level Rise

Ground Subsidence

Man-made Slope

Construction of Block K

Area: 7,000 m2 Volume: 100,000m3

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 2,250m3

Area: 2,200 m2 Volume: 42,000m3

[Formation of Soild Geology] [Born and Development of Soil]

[Soil Movement]

[Soil Movement]

[Soil Movement]

[Soil Movement]

Major Intrusive Igneous Developer

Fill Slope: ASD Architectural Add on the top layers of soil

Natural Soil-forming Process: Consultant Weathering Organism Effects

Client

[Formation of Soild Geology] [Formation of Soild Geology]

CEDD Deep Foundation(WIP): Civil Piling Engineering and Development Basement Excavation Department

Services Department

Natural Landforming Process: Colluvium

Major Intrusive Igneous

Minor Intrusive Igneous

Cut Slope: [Born and Development of Soil] AAAA

Volume = 1 mm thick

Deep Foundation: Site Clearance Piling and Excavation

Natural Soil-forming Process: Weathering Organism Effects

Government

Volume = 65cm thick

1983

Redevelopment of the Hospital

Area: 150 m2 Volume: 1,000m3

Volume EPD = 40 mm thick

Contractor

Volume = 20 mm thick

Environmental Protection Department

Cheung Chau

Fill

Cheung Chau HKPD (Depth)

Marine Deposit

Fill

Cheung Chau

Charging Scheme +155mPD Government Waste Disposal Facilities for Construction Waste and Charge Level (Depth) The following government waste disposal facilities accept different types of construction waste:

Public fill received at public fill receptions

Government waste disposal facilities

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Basement LG 2

Coarse Sand Gravels

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Basement LG 3

Coarse Sand Gravels& Boulders Soil

10m

Silty Sand

10m Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

10m

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Raft

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Toll- gate

Inert construction waste (Public Fill)

Public Fill Bank

Piezometer Test

20m

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

$71

$175

Containing not more than 50% b y weight of inert construction w aste ++

$200

Construction waste (Public Fill>50%)

Sorting Machine

$200

Concrete

Silty Sand Sandy Silt

Slightly Decomposed Lamprophyre

Moderately Decomposed Lamprophyre

TYPICAL FINAL CAPPING Slightly Decomposed Lamprophyre

Moderately Decomposed Lamprophyre

20m

Moderately Decomposed Granite

Moderately Decomposed Granite

Slightly Decomposed Lamprophyre

Slightly Decomposed Lamprophyre

Completely Decomposed Granite

600mm MIN. SOIL COVER

GEOTEXTILE FILTER

▪Sorting Procedures for Construction Waste

Highly Decomposed Granite

GEONET HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER

Granular and Crumb Structures

Angular and Subangular Blocky Structures

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

30m

30m

Fine (1-2 mm, diameter)

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Moderately Decomposed Granite

Concrete Partition Wall

Highly Decomposed Granite

Very Fine 30m (less than 1 mm, diameter)

Very Fine (less than 5 mm, diameter)

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Fine (5-10 mm, diameter) Pre-sorting Area For Mixed C&D Material

Medium (2-5 mm, diameter) C.D.G

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

40m

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

< 250 mm Mixed C&D Materials

Tang Lau Structure

Coarse (20-50 mm, diameter)

40m

Non-inert part

> 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

Very Coarse (more than 10 mm, diameter)

Pile

50 - 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

800mm MIN. FINAL INTERMEDIATE COVER

Moderately Decomposed Granite

40m TYPICAL DETAILS OF IMPERMEABLE LINER Soil Nails Installation

WASTE

Slightly Decomposed Granite

To reduce budget on

Agency

Develop er sell before the the const prope ruction c

▪Stability Concern an

Shue Yan University S

Contractor

WASTE

BUFFER LAYER (PROCESSED CONSTRUCTION WASTE) (150mm) FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

0 - 50mm Mixed C&D Materials

& Breaking Down Oversized Public Fill

50m

2018

Structural Engineer

Developer

Government (LCSD)

LEACHATE COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (500mm)

Mannual Sorting Out 50m

GEOTEXTILE CUSHION

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Medium (10-20 mm, diameter)

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

GEOMEMBRANE

30m

Non-inert part

Coarse 40m (5-10 mm, diameter)

C.D.G.

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

Malibu

Three 60-storey Towers (three underg Construction Period: 45 months from Private housing estate in the southeas

Slope work engaged. Construction is c cannot interfere with campus activitie

Moderatelyat Decomposed Granite ▪Disposal of Construction Landfills Moderately Decomposed GraniteWaste

Bamboo Timber Organic materials

Landfill

Containing any percentage of inert construction w aste ++

Completely Decomposed Granite

Soil

Non-inert Part

Moderately Decomposed Granite Construction waste Standpipe Piezometer Installation (Public Fill<=50%)

Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities@

# Except for the Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the minimum charge load is 1 tonne, i.e. if a load of waste weighs 1 tonne or less, it will be charged as 1 tonne. A load of waste weighing more than 1 tonne will be charged at 0.1 tonne increment.

For Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the charge is $20 per 0.1 tonne and the minimum charge load is 0.1 tonne. ++ Inert construction waste means rock, rubble, boulder, earth, soil, sand, concrete, asphalt, brick, tile, masonry or used bentonite. @ If a load of waste contains construction waste and other waste, that load will be regarded as consisting entirely of construction waste for the purpose of calculating the applicable charge.

Construction debris Gravel and concrete

Public Fill

Visual Inspection 20m

10m

Placement of fill on ground

Moderately Decomposed Granite

20m

Landfills @

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Compacted Material

Completely Decomposed Granite

At landfills

▪Disposition of different construction waste

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Consisting entirely of inert construction waste ++

Sorting facilities

Waste concrete disposed of at landfills

Charge per tonne#

Type of construction waste

Containing more than 50% by weight of inert construction w aste ++

Public fill reception facilities

reuse (mainly reclamation projects)

1% Decomposed Granite Slightly

Coarse Sand Flowering plants appeared for the first time

Public fill transferred to projects for direct 36% Moderately Decomposed Granite

Slightly Decomposed Granite

5%

Colluvium

Seawater

Cooperate

Sandy Silt

58%

Construction Waste

Silty Sand

Fine Sand Cobbles& Gravels

Alluvium

Seawater

Silty Sand Cheung Chau

+155mPD ▪Disposal of Construction Waste (Depth)

+63mPD (Depth)

Basement LG 1 Coarse Sand

▪Tight Project Time L

Buyer

Concrete

Require, Restrict and Apply pressure

Constraints of Reusing S

Ng, S. H.Y., & Lourenço, S. D. N. (2016). Conditions to induce water repellency in soils with dimethyldichlorosilane. Géotechnique, 66(5), 441-444.

[Interruption of Soil Life Cycle]

Major Intrusive Igneous

1 Cut and Fill Slope & Construction of Block K 1.

▪ Government measures to limit construction waste Cretaceous Neogene &(Guidelines) Quaternary Period 1975 General Specifications

Man-made Slope



[Formation of Soild Geology] [Born and Development of Soil]

1 Cut and Fill Slope & Redevelopment of the Hospital 1.

▪Relationships of Different Sectors in Generating,

Cretaceous Quaternary PeriodConstruction 1975 2023 Disposing, and Recycling Waste



Area: 200 m2 Volume: 1,000m3



High-rise Real Estate Development

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 200m3



2020

Tong Lau

Area: 1,400 m2 Volume: 30,000m3

▪ Surfaces and interfaces treatment

Quaternary Period 1958

Area: 110,000 m2 Volume: 1,540,000m3



2 Tong Lau & Redevelopment of High-rise Estate 2.

Cretaceous

1991

Praya Reclamation Scheme Hang Seng Bank Headquarters

Compacted Soil / Purchased Standardized Soil Material

Quaternary Period 1890

▪ Soil for Reclamation (Typical Cross Section of Coastal Reclamation)

3 Reclamation & Construction of Hang Seng Bank Headquarters 3.

Cretaceous

Student : HAN Jinrui Jerry Advisor : TRUMPF Susanne

Reflections on Current Soil Application in Construction Industry and Soil Techniques from Different Disciplines

Student : LI Qinyu Rainie Advisor : JIANG Bin

ter repellency e stability

Challenging, Redefining, and Healing: Using the Central of Hong Kong as a Sample Site to Propose a Multi-layer Pedestrian System for the Future Cities

ARCH7299 / Landscape Thesis Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

n Completely Decomposed Granite ypes of soil. The hydrophobic soils will

The University of Hong Kong Division of Landscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

50m

< 250mm Public Fill

PERFORATED HDPE LEACHATE COLLECTION PIPE (200mm) CUSHION GEOTEXTILE (600g)

50m

2mm HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER 6mm BENTONITE MATTING COMPLETELY DECOMPOSED GRANITE (300mm)

FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

Geology Section A-B

PERFORATED HDPE GROUNDWATER COLLECTION PIPE (200mm)

60m

Quaternary Period 1958

Praya Reclamation Scheme Hang Seng Bank Headquarters

2020

Tong Lau

High-rise Real Estate Development

Area: 110,000 m2 Volume: 1,540,000m3

Area: 1,400 m2 Volume: 30,000m3

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 200m3

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 1,000m3

[Formation of Soild Geology] [Born and Development of Soil]

[Interruption of Soil Life Cycle]

[Soil Movement]

[Formation of Soild Geology]

[Born and Development of Soil]

[Slight Soil Movement]

[Soil Movement]

Major Intrusive Igneous

Natural Soil-forming Process Weathering Organism Effects

Land Reclamation: Layers of fill material

Building Construction: Site Clearance Excavation of Basement

Major Intrusive Igneous

Natural Soil-forming Process: Weathering Organism Effects

Shallow Foundation: Intervening the surface soil

Deep Foundation: Site Clearance Piling and Excavation

Sea Level Rise

Ground Subsidence

Cretaceous

General Specifications (Guidelines)

[Formation of Soild Geology] [Born and Development of Soil]

Sea Level Rise

Government Volume = 1 mm thick

2018

EPD

Contractor

Agency

Environmental Protection Department

Buyer

Basement LG 2

Coarse Sand Gravels

Basement LG 3

Coarse Sand Gravels& Boulders Soil

10m

10m

5% 1%

Flowering plants appeared for the first time

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Raft

Toll- gate

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Inert construction waste (Public Fill)

Visual Inspection Piezometer Test

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Landfills @

Waste concrete disposed of at landfills

Public Fill Bank

Construction waste (Public Fill>50%)

Sorting Machine

Construction waste (Public Fill<=50%)

Landfill

Type of construction waste

Charge per tonne#

Consisting entirely of inert construction waste ++

$71

Containing more than 50% by weight of inert construction w aste ++

$175

Containing not more than 50% b y weight of inert construction w aste ++

$200

Containing any percentage of inert construction w aste ++

$200

# Except for the Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the minimum charge load is 1 tonne, i.e. if a load of waste weighs 1 tonne or less, it will be charged as 1 tonne. A load of waste weighing more than 1 tonne will be charged at 0.1 tonne increment.

For Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the charge is $20 per 0.1 tonne and the minimum charge load is 0.1 tonne. ++ Inert construction waste means rock, rubble, boulder, earth, soil, sand, concrete, asphalt, brick, tile, masonry or used bentonite. @ If a load of waste contains construction waste and other waste, that load will be regarded as consisting entirely of construction waste for the purpose of calculating the applicable charge.

Soil

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Pre-sorting Area For Mixed C&D Material Medium (2-5 mm, diameter) C.D.G

C.D.G.

Pile

< 250mm Public Fill

letes.

Basement LG 3

10m

Coarse Sand

Shue Yan University Student Hostel & Amenities Building Flowering plants appeared Raft

Slope work engaged. Construction is confined to a limited space and Compacted Material cannot interfere with campus activities.

20m Piezometer Test

ts

ltan

Completely Decomposed Granite

su Con

Agency

Cooperate

58%

Charging Scheme Public fill received at public fill receptions

36%

5% 1%

Public fill transferred to projects for direct reuse (mainly reclamation projects)

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Cobbles with Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

Clayed Silty Sand

At landfills Landfills @

Waste concrete disposed of at landfills

Toll- gate

Inert construction waste (Public Fill)

Public Fill Bank Public Fill

Visual Inspection

Construction waste (Public Fill>50%)

Sorting Machine

Construction waste (Public Fill<=50%)

Landfill

Non-inert Part

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Pre-sorting Area For Mixed C&D Material

Because of the stability issue, the soil from cut slope cannot used for fill slope.

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Contractor B Contractor A

40m

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

< 250 mm Mixed C&D Materials

SOGO Twin Towers Kai Tak 21 on grade storeys with 4 levels of basement Construction Period: 25 months from 2020.01 to 2023.01

Government (LCSD) Very Developer Coarse (more than 10 mm, diameter)

▪Poor Cooperation Tang Lau Structure

> 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

Pile

Mannual Sorting Out & Breaking Down Oversized Public Fill

50m

50m

6mm BENTONITE MATTING

< 250mm Public Fill

COMPLETELY DECOMPOSED GRANITE (300mm)

50 - 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

GROUNDWATER COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (300mm) PERFORATED HDPE GROUNDWATER COLLECTION PIPE (200mm)

60m

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Fine-grained Granite

Fine-grained Granite

Fine-grained Granite

Fine-grained Granite

60mMedium-grained Granite

Medium-grained Granite

Medium-grained Granite

Medium-grained Granite

4 sets at Tseung Kwan O Area 137 2 sets at Tuen Mun Area 38

0 - 50mm Public Fill

50 - 250mm Public Fill

FORMED GROUND

▪Disposal of Construction Waste at Landfills

Develop er sel before the con

▪Stability Conce

Shue Yan Univer

Slope work engaged. Constr cannot interfere with camp

600mm MIN. SOIL COVER

GEONET

GEOTEXTILE CUSHION

800mm MIN. FINAL INTERMEDIATE COVER

Contractor

Structural Eng

WASTE

TYPICAL DETAILS OF IMPERMEABLE LINER

Gov (

WASTE BUFFER LAYER (PROCESSED CONSTRUCTION WASTE) (150mm) FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

Developer

LEACHATE COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (500mm) PERFORATED HDPE LEACHATE COLLECTION PIPE (200mm) CUSHION GEOTEXTILE (600g) 2mm HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER 6mm BENTONITE MATTING COMPLETELY DECOMPOSED GRANITE (300mm)

FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

Amount of Sorting Facilities

$200

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

PERFORATED HDPE LEACHATE COLLECTION PIPE (200mm)

2mm HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER

Containing any percentage of inert construction w aste ++

GEOMEMBRANE

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

LEACHATE COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (500mm)

CUSHION GEOTEXTILE (600g)

$200

TYPICAL FINAL CAPPING

Bamboo Timber Organic materials

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

30m

Coarse 40m (5-10 mm, diameter)

FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

$71

$175

Containing not more than 50% b y weight of inert construction w aste ++

Soil Construction debris Gravel and concrete

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

BUFFER LAYER (PROCESSED CONSTRUCTION WASTE) (150mm)

Charge per tonne#

Consisting entirely of inert construction waste ++

GEOTEXTILE FILTER

Fine (1-2 mm, diameter)

WASTE

Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities@

Type of construction waste

Containing more than 50% by weight of inert construction w aste ++

# Except for the Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the minimum charge load is 1 tonne, i.e. if a load of waste weighs 1 tonne or less, it will be charged as 1 tonne. A load of waste weighing more than 1 tonne will be charged at 0.1 tonne increment.

For Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities, the charge is $20 per 0.1 tonne and the minimum charge load is 0.1 tonne. ++ Inert construction waste means rock, rubble, boulder, earth, soil, sand, concrete, asphalt, brick, tile, masonry or used bentonite. @ If a load of waste contains construction waste and other waste, that load will be regarded as consisting entirely of construction waste for the purpose of calculating the applicable charge.

▪Disposition of different construction waste

ThereClayed is only Siltyone Sand access to the Clayed withthe Fine rest Gravelof the space site, and is Silty Sand with Fine Gravel used for construction and storage of building materials.

Government waste disposal facilities Public fill reception facilities

Sorting facilities

Silty Sand

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Government Waste Disposal Facilities for Construction Waste and Charge Level The following government waste disposal facilities accept different types of construction waste:

▪Sorting Procedures for Construction Waste Highly Decomposed Granite

Contractor Medium (2-5 mm, diameter) Structural Engineer

TYPICAL DETAILS OF IMPERMEABLE LINER

cr y

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER

Granular and Crumb Structures

WASTE

ash

2018

Completely Decomposed Granite

Very Fine 30m (less than 1 mm, diameter)

800mm MIN. FINAL INTERMEDIATE COVER

Qd

sta

rse

-200 ▪TightCoaProject T

Environmental Protection Department

Construction Waste

Highly Decomposed Granite

GEOTEXTILE CUSHION

200

Constraints of l Reu PD tuff

Three 60-storey Towers (thr Construction Period: 45 mo Private housing estate in th

▪Disposal of Construction Waste

▪Stability Concern and Limited Space

▪Disposal of Construction Waste at Landfills

General Specifications (Guidelines)

EPD

Contractor

veloper r. cto the de time, the contra es in r e hous e limit fo tim liver th To de ht project tig set a

Gravels& Boulders Soil

10m

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Civil Engineering and Development Department

Architectural Services Department

Require, Restrict and Apply pressure

+63mPD (Depth)

Basement LG 2

Coarse Sand

Slightly Decomposed Granite

Government

Silty Sand

Coarse Sand Gravels

Fine-grained Granite

CEDD

ASD

Consultant

0 - 50mm Mixed C&D Materials

& Breaking Down Oversized Public Fill

50m

50 - 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

0 - 50mm Mixed C&D Materials

Mannual Sorting Out 50m

Seawater

Fine-grained Granite

▪ Government measures to limit construction waste

Non-inert part

Very Coarse (more than 10 mm, diameter)

Fill

Seawater

60m

Malibu Developer Client

Non-inert part

Non-inert part

> 250mm Mixed C&D Materials

Deep Foundation: Site Clearance Piling and Excavation

GEONET

Non-inert part

40m

[Soil Movement]

Shallow Foundation: Intervening the surface soil

Cheung Chau

Fine Sand Cobbles& Gravels

Develop er sell before the the cons property truction comp

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

< 250 mm Mixed C&D Materials

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 1,000m3

[Slight Soil Movement]

Slightly Decomposed Granite

▪Relationships of Different Sectors in Generating, Disposing, and Recycling Construction Waste

The building plots belong park plots to the beloA ng to the gove develop activities are rnment.Th 400 restricted within the plot bo

Buyer

Basement LG 1

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Tang Lau Structure

Area: 200 m2 Volume: 200m3

Deliver Keys

Volume = 1 mm thick

20m

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

High-rise Real Estate Development

Slightly Decomposed Granite

FORMED GROUND

Concrete Partition Wall

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Tong Lau

4 sets at Tseung Kwan O Area 137 Decomposed Granite Slightly Decomposed Granite 60m 2Slightly sets at Tuen Mun Area 38

Natural Landforming Process: Colluvium

600mm MIN. SOIL COVER

Concrete Partition Wall

Fine (1-2 mm, diameter)

Natural Soil-forming Process: Weathering Organism Effects

2020

TYPICAL FINAL CAPPING

Bamboo Timber Organic materials

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Major Intrusive Igneous

Coarse Sand

GEOMEMBRANE

Highly Decomposed Granite

Developer [Formation of Soild Geology]Contractor [Born and Development of Soil]

2019

Ground Subsidence

for the first time

Construction debris Gravel and concrete

Medium-grained Granite

Quaternary Period 1958

d t spen Volume , developers won’ To reduce costs n waste.= ling constructio 65cm thick budget on recyc

HKPD (Depth)

HIGH DENSITY POLYETHYLENE LINER

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

[Soil Movement]

GEOTEXTILE FILTER

30m

Coarse 40m (5-10 mm, diameter)

Outlying Islands Transfer Facilities@

▪Sorting Procedures for Construction Waste

Very Fine 30m (less than 1 mm, diameter)

Slightly& Moderately Decomposed Granite

Public fill reception facilities

Completely Decomposed Granite

Highly Decomposed Granite

Granular and Crumb Structures

Government waste disposal facilities

At landfills

Non-inert Part

Clayed Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Government Waste Disposal Facilities for Construction Waste and Charge Level The following government waste disposal facilities accept different types of construction waste:

Sorting facilities

Public Fill

20m

Completely Decomposed Granite

Public fill transferred to projects for direct reuse (mainly reclamation projects)

▪Disposition of different construction waste

Compacted Material

20m

Charging Scheme

Silty Sand

Silty Sand with Fine Gravel

Coarse Sand

Medium-grained Granite

Medium-grained Granite

Cheung Chau

Public fill received at public fill receptions

36% Colluvium

Marine Deposit

Seawater

Alluvium

Seawater

Fine Sand Cobbles& Gravels

58%

Construction Waste

Silty Sand

Area: 1,400 m2 Volume: 30,000m3

[Interruption of Soil Life Cycle]

Cooperate

▪Disposal of Construction Waste

+63mPD (Depth) Fill

Basement LG 1 Coarse Sand

Cretaceous

Area: 110,000 m2 Volume: 1,540,000m3

Marine Deposit

HKPD (Depth)

Require, Restrict and Apply pressure

Cheung Chau

Fill

Cheung Chau

60mMedium-grained Granite

1991

Three 60-storey Towers (threeProcess underground stoerys) Major Intrusive Igneous Natural Soil-forming Land Reclamation: Building Construction: Construction Period: 45 months fromLayers 2016.07 to 2020.03 Site Clearance Weathering of fill material Private housingOrganism estateEffects in the southeast of Tseung Kwan O Excavation of Basement

Civil Engineering and Development Department

Architectural Services Department

Fine-grained Granite

Praya Reclamation Scheme Hang Seng Bank Headquarters ▪Tight Project Time Limit and Allocation of Budget

CEDD

ASD

Consultant

Fine-grained Granite

Quaternary Period 1890

Malibu

Developer Client

Natural Landforming Process: Colluvium

Volume = 65cm thick

Fine-grained Granite

Fill

Cretaceous

Fine-grained Granite

*Information collected by interviewing a senior project manager of a leading contractor in Hong Kong.

3 Reclamation 2 Tong 3. & Construction Hang BankConstruction Headquarters Projects 2.

Lau & Redevelopment of High-rise Estate Constraints of ReusingofSoil inSeng Actual Photos Credit to Hip Hing Limited.

Colluvium

1991

▪ Government measures to limit construction waste

C.D.G.

Quaternary Period 1890

▪Relationships of Different Sectors in Generating, Disposing, and Recycling Construction Waste

Alluvium

Cretaceous

2 Tong Lau & Redevelopment of High-rise Estate 2.

C.D.G

3 Reclamation & Construction of Hang Seng Bank Headquarters 3.

50 - 250mm Public Fill

0 - 50mm Public Fill

Meters

GROUNDWATER COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (300mm)

Amount of Sorting Facilities

FILTER GEOTEXTILE (200g)

The building plots belong park plots to the deve belo loper, and the activities are ng to the government. restricted The respecti surrounding within the ve constru plot bounda Fine-grained ction Fine-grained Granite Granite 60m Fine-grained Granite ries.

GROUNDWATER COLLECTION LAYER (10-20mm CRUSHED GRANITE) (300mm) PERFORATED HDPE GROUNDWATER COLLECTION PIPE (200mm)

Amount of Sorting Facilities

plot is notGranite construction the buildingGranite of Medium-grained the contractor not negotiated, Fine-grained Granite Medium-grained Medium-grained Granite parties haveGranite Since the two 60mMedium-grained allowed to use the space of other plots for construction waste on-site sorting and storage.

4 sets at Tseung Kwan O Area 137 2 sets at Tuen Mun Area 38

0 - 50mm Public Fill

50 - 250mm Public Fill

FORMED GROUND

The building plots belong park plots to t belo activities are ng to the gove restricted within

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23 Silent Spring: Stories of Villages in She County

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23 Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Student : YU Qiuwan Estelle Advisor : MAK Vincci

ARCH7299 / Landscape Thesis Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) Autonomous Landscape Transforming Landscape Architecture with GPT Models: From Concept to Realisation #toolpath_optimisation (shaping) # the toolpaths need to be optimised to avoid backfilling and minimise the noise generated from loose materials, dragging from the bottom up, retract and move to the next position Z

[d] [c]

[b]

X

[a]

front view

[a] [b] [c] [d]

descending dragging retraction positioning

#synergistic_landscapes

#to ChatGPT “write to connect the first points of each curve input to create a polyline, the second point to create another polyline and so on, division of segments to be controlled by a number slider” 444 44444 44444 44444 33333 44444 33333 2 4444 33333 44 2222 3333 4444 2222 3333 4 2222 11 4 3333 2222 33 1111 444 3333 2222 1111 444 2 2 4 3 2 4 3 1111 0000 222 44 4 22 4 0000 111 333 4 2222 1 3 4 3 0000 4 1 3 4 111 222 4 4 1111 0 333 00 4 3 4 3 22 4 1 3 2 000 1 4 3 101 2 4 3 2 11000 3 3 44 000 222 3 11 2 3 1 44 2 1 3 000 4 2 1 3 2 3 0 44 2 3 111 0 22 3 0 44 0 3 22 111 0 44 33 22 000 111 1 22 33 44 11 000 2 33 11 2 2 000 33 11 0 2 0 2 11 0 33 2 0 3 2 11 0 3 2 0 0 11 0 22 0 1 2 0 1 0 1 22 0 1 0 0 22 11 0 0 11 0 0 11 00 11 00 00 00 00

# a holistic approach to autonomous landscapes workflow

#substantive terrain # a physical field of dynamic landscapes

#to ChatGPT “write to offset curves in Z, divide the input and offset curve by a number slider, connect every odd point in x to every even point in y to create a zigzag”

(compacting) # (shaping) may need to be run multiple times until all defects are cleared, then the (compacting) motion can be performed, a - negative Z offset should be applied Z

Student : TSUI Ho Yin Tony Advisor : VALIN Ivan

[d] [a]

[b]

[c] z offset

X

input -z offset

front view

[a] [b] [c] [d]

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

descending compacting retraction positioning

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

#algorithmic canvas

16 18

15

17

20

# a computational mesh of the physical, captured to be manipulated

19 21

#choregraphic actors # the computational representation of the creative expressions that reshape the landscapes: patterns, paths, points and curves

medium:plaster

#outline_projection #to ChatGPT “I have a mesh outline that is projected to xy plane in rhino, write a ghpython script to move the curve to the bottom of the input mesh”

ChatGPT-written script

input mesh

#actor-network

# the new forms and dynamics, where the actora are responsive to each other

bottom-aligned outline

mesh outline

input mesh outline

#terrain modelling #bison

[bahy-suhn] noun # Bison is a landscape architecture plugin for grasshopper developed by bisonla. It offers tools for terrain mesh creation, analysis, editing, and annotation. Users can manipulate a terrain mesh with points or curves.

#mesh flat

mesh input [mesh flat] verb # edit mesh with a flat closed curve input region defined by a closed planar curve

#machining_symphony

# a numerical translation from human creativity to machine operability

#mesh point

[mesh point] verb # edit mesh with points and a given slope angle

mesh input

point input angle

#mesh path

[mesh pahth] verb # edit mesh with a flattened path along a given curve

mesh input

path input width

#robotic artifacts

# a precise physical construct

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The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23 Survival in Increasingly Frequent Seasonal Threats California Human-caused Wildfire Management

ARCH7299 / Landscape Thesis Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Student : LOU Tongyao Vivienne Advisor : CHEN Bin

Island Reforestation: Assembling the Biocultural Identity of Kinmen

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The University of Hong Kong Division of Landscape Architecture Annual 2022-23 In between Agendas and Perceptions: Unpacking the Rhetoric of Infrastructure, An Invitation to Co-create the Prophecy

ARCH7299 / Landscape Thesis Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) A Landscape Approach to Heritage Conservation and Climate Mitigation for the Jiayuguan Great Wall

Student : CHEANG Brian Advisor : HILGEFORT Jason Ten Major Infrastructure Projects

Hong Kong Airport Core Programme

Student : GU Xiang Lindsay Advisor : SHETABI Linda

Northern Metropolis

West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan Competition

“Infrastructuring”

Creation of Realities and Curation of Stances Hong Kong International Airport Master Plan 2030

public spending.

”

“ Infrastructures include and exclude, and they enable ”

Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link

certain kinds of knowledge and action rather than others

ECONOMIC GROWTH Recurring Problem

economic growth

continuous

china

reliable

employment

East Lantau Metropolis Framework

BLOK ET ALL (2016) INFRASTRUCTURING ENVIRONMENTS

employment

private sector

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ownership

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new economy

process time employment opportunities INCREASING INTENSITY

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stimulating economy economic impetus

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inform

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websites

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competitiveness

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written feedbacks non-mandatory

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emissions

contingency plan international position

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lengthy processes LIVELIHOOD ISSUES supply new land economic development comprehensive cultural development JOINT DEVELOPMENT on time pollution REDUCING RESTRICTIONS NEW ENGINE FOR GROWTH connectivity vitality NEW GROWTH ´À¿ȷº´Åº¿¸ º¿Å¶Ã¶ÄÅÄ desalinate creative economy ȷ¶Éº³½¶ NEW PARADIGM overall interests zoning development opportunities creative industries win-win situation budget housing development control of supply industries pleasant creativity jobs housing & career aspirations wealth gap local water resources global metropolis waiting time NEW FUTURE conceptual issue crux revitalising economy overall interests integrated regional development strategy ´ÀÄÅʉ¶Ȯ¶´ÅºÇ¶¿¶ÄÄ ÁƳ½º´ ´À¿ȱµ¶¿´¶ livelihood issue suspend land sales new land priority businesses energise design value-added economic progress limited resource “Asia’s Best” strategic metropolitan critical people’s aspirations stability no full consensus home-purchasing power creative economy “planning before land resumption” PEOPLE’S CONCERNS AND DIFFICULTIES security protected adequate enjoyment economic engines REFORM livelihood connect national high-speed rail long-term prosperity long process steady asia’s world city recreation man-made shortage private sector µºȲ´Æ½Å ´¹²½½¶¿¸¶ quantity sustained supply new sites RECOVERING ECONOMY hope of families social ladder STABILITY speeding up regional transport hub stability of the society Closer Economic C ʊ value-added tourism livelihood issue values of the younger generation market stability ownership speed inadequate environmentally-friendly cultural landmark stability persistent imbalance ownership HELPING THE POOR AND NEEDY livelihood backbone stability property prices ¶´À¿À¾º´ ȹ ÄÀ´º²½ ³¶¿¶ȱÅÄ Speeding up prevailing problem leading position public grievances ¶Ȳ´º¶¿´Ê public expectations ´ÀÄÅʉ¶Ȯ¶´ÅºÇ¶ tourism ³ÆȮ¶Ã social safety net ´À¿ȱµ¶¿´¶ lead-development long-term investment housing ladder backbone development potential global supply chain population growth private sector social harmony backbone stabilize opportunities quality market ʊ ´À¿ȱµ¶¿´¶ º¿ ½À¿¸ʉŶþ ÁÃÀÄÁ¶´ÅÄ jobs Closer Economic C ʊ commodity ¾²Ã¼¶Å ȷÆ´ÅƲźÀ¿Ä assets impetus for growth PRD social stability handling capacity market stability social stability ¶´À¿À¾º´ ȹ ÄÀ´º²½ ³¶¿¶ȱÅÄ pillar of the economy long-term ownership regional status Speeding up free market economy ʊ PEOPLE’S INTERESTS NEW IMPETUS china stable long-term development LIVEABLE CITY future economic development aspirations for more space qianhai planning&approval safety net investment backbone DRIVE DEVELOPMENT ownership upward mobility jobs demand transparency INTEGRATION wto healthy congestion strategic importance ʊ price congestion congestion upward mobility ³ÆȮ¶Ã strategic importance LIVEABLE CITY minimise intervention CAPITALISING UNIQUE ADVANTAGES congestion NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT impetus gba ecology GREEN TRANSPORT local community wealth links well planned roadside emissions NATIONAL STRATEGIES social justice environmentally friendly speed convenient connectivity small&medium position HONG KONG’S STATUS JOINT DEVELOPMENT safe ГЕ ʊ backbone LOW CARBON social stability environmentally-friendly pedestrian environment IMPETUS FOR GROWTH allocation of resources high capacity ʊ prd CONSOLIDATE INDUSTRIES competitiveness design regional REGIONAL INTEGRATION strategic mindset regional economy reliable in-depth co-operation FULL SUPPORT OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT jobs congestion nuclear electricity future demand ÁƳ½º´ ´À¿ȱµ¶¿´¶ international ownership aspirations public concern economic co-operation sustainable STAUNCH SUPPORT OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT beyond the administrative boundary ¶Ȳ´º¶¿Å new opportunities NEW IMPETUS TO THE ECONOMY ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING economic development natural gas extensive area development potential hub PROMOTING AS LOGISTICS CENTRE ecological study ʖÅò¿ÄÁÀÃÅ ȱÃÄÅʗ ÄÅòŶ¸Ê quality modernisation in mainland emissions country’s support ¾ÆÅƲ½ ³¶¿¶ȱÅÄ HONG KONG’S STATUS asia’s premier development potential high speed speed international bridgehead economy centre transparency integrated services market opportunities penalty ϿЂÅ¹ ȱǶʉʶ²Ã Á½²¿ international joint planning joint development co-operation mainland’s transport capacity mass-transit based development strategy regional maintain position ²ȮÀõ²³º½ºÅÊ competitive advantage economic growth quicken the pace incentive “one country, two systems” regional regional hub employment pearl river delta ¿²ÅºÀ¿²½ ϿЀŹ ȱǶʉʶ²Ã Á½²¿ ¶´À¿À¾º´ ³¶¿¶ȱÅÄ world-class competitiveness ȷÀÈ À· Á¶ÀÁ½¶ ȹ ¸ÀÀµÄ position start-up opportunities leading position international JOINT DEVELOPMENT high value qianhai regional hub strategic technologies

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ownership

capacity

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density future needs

standards

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economic climate guangdong authorities

country parks

living standards

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quality demand quality

chinese government china cooperation

ownership

economic development

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weather

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modern living conditions working-living conditions comfort quality of life living standards

if agricultural

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contracts, partnerships

[ Reports ]

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Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin

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speculates

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2010

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Handover of Hong Kong

Dou Port Operated

Landscape Architects

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< Demands and Goals > < Detailed Alignments >

Qianhai SZ-HK Modern Service Industry Operation Zone Extension Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

Lok Ma Chau - Huanggang Port

Carbon-footprints Greening Rehabilitating

{ Design }

[ Compensation ]

China Ferry Terminal Hong Kong - Macau Ferry Terminal

Sha Tau Kok Port Operated

Mitigations

[ Outline Zoning Plan ]

Qianhai SZ-HK Modern Service Industry Operation Zone

on Port Operated

[ Reports ] written feedbacks

{ Land Resumption }

}

[ Representative ]

[ Application of S16 ]

{ Town Planning Board Approval for Landuses }

development opportunities New Growth market opportunities Progressive Development long-term development potential development potential new opportunities impetus for growth New Impetus to the Economy stimulating economy economic engines New Impetus new engine for growth

congestion immediate needs complex problem pressure necessity demand capacity pressure saturation

challenged composition

if new land

1-2 years

Stage: Land Targeting - Retirement

stable price sustained supply market stability create jobs stabilize regional status competitive advantage asia’s premier leading position position “Asia’s Best” international position

{ LegCo Approval for Policy }

speculates

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speculates

Legal Realisation

{ To Sustain Conditions }

< Scope of Investigation > < Method of Investigation >

{ Construction }

Shenzhen Bay Port

Chek Lap Kok International Airport

[ Employment ]

Tseun Wan Line

Island Line

Light Rail

1 km

[ Infrastrcutural Object ]

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( Future Tenants )

West Rail Line

Communication

{ Operation }

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5-10 years

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Tung Chung and Airport Line

Physical Realisation

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MTR Vandalism

Tseung Kwan O Line

[ Population ]

Kai Tak To Kwa Wan Branch

[ Investment ]

Tai Lam Country Park

M1

Kung East Country Park

LOHAS Park Branch

[ Industry ]

speculates

Ma On Shan Line

speculates

South Island Line

High Island Reservoir

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Plover Cove Country Park

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[ Employment ]

I4’

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ARCH 7131

Landscape Design Studio I

Instructors : TRUMPF Susanne REN Chao JIANG Bin KOKORA Michael Teaching Assistants : FAN Phoebe LIU Xin TANG Chun Wah Richard TSUI Ho Yin Tony

Landscape Peripheries: Transformational Approaches along the Coastal Trail In this studio, students explored the core practices of landscape design in the context of the dynamic natural systems and contested territories along the coastal edge of Hong Kong Island. The studio's origin was the Hong Kong Coastal Trail, a working proposal for restoring pedestrian and recreational trails to create a continuous path around the island.

Students worked with this initiative as a catalyst for additional strategies and interventions that amplified the connective, regenerative, community-focused ambitions of the existing plans. The semester was divided into three projects, each tackling urban landscape concerns at different scales. First, students worked in groups on a larger section of the trail and used maps and sectional diagrams to illustrate the network of relationships, decisions, and agencies that underlay the coastal trail’s development. The second project examined the variety of landscape systems and communities that are crossed by the proposed trail right of way. After detailed spatial and material documentation, students isolated a user and designed an interface that augmented, adapted, or modified that user's exchanges with the site. They then developed strategies that structure the trail’s potential within the larger urban and ecological territory.Students' individually developed proposals included landscape-led interventions augmenting the original trail planning to conserve critical habitat or improve water retention; expand the possibilities for green or multi-functional civil infrastructure; or support local communities through access, mobility, and revitalization projects.

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‘Project Haven’ by TANG Chi Tat

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Actor/Agency/Network Investigations,Student Group Maps 54

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ARCH 7131 / Landscape Design Studio I Landscape Peripheries Transformational Approaches along the Coastal Trail

1. 'Crossing Aperture' by LAI Tsz Kwan Zero 2. 'Extracted Cultures' by PAN Yichang 55

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ARCH 7131 / Landscape Design Studio I Landscape Peripheries Transformational Approaches along the Coastal Trail

TIMELINE

地營潭大

1860S

1870S

1880S

1890S

1900S

1910S

1920S

1930S

1940S

1950S

WWII

PLANTING TREES

1960S

AGRICULTURE & FISHING LAND TAI TAM WATERWORKS SCHEME

1970S SSSI

1980S

1990S

2000S

2010S

2020S

THE TAI TAM WATERWORKS HERITAGE TRAIL REVITALISATION SCHEME CHANGE WATER PUMPING STATION - E.A.R.T.H. PROJECT (Guided eco-tours, Mangrove planting, Nature walks, Wellness events, Establish a Water Gallery, Music events)

PROJECT 3: CATALYTIC INTERVENTIONS

TAI TAM TUK RESERVOIR SECTION OF PADDY BOAT AND BOARD WALK Succession Isometric

Model Photo 1

TAI TAM TUK RESERVOIR

Model Photo 2

PROJECT 3: CATALYTIC INTERVENTIONS

Model Photo 3

‘Hazy Forest: Centrifugal Growth of Landscape’ by MA Duo 56

TAI TAM TUK RESERVOIR

PROJECT 3: CATALYTIC INTERVENTIONS

TAI TAM TUK RESERVOIR

PROJECT 3: CATALYTIC INTERVENTIONS

‘The Moving Shore’ by CHUNG Pui Yu Ada 57

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ARCH 7132a / Landscape Design Studio I Ho Chi Minh City Futures: Landscape Strategies for the urbanizing Tropics

ARCH 7132a

Landscape Design Studio IIA

Instructors : VALIN Ivan CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Ho Chi Minh City Futures: Landscape Strategies For the Urbanizing Tropics This studio sought to understand and document the actual methods of adaptation and landscape management within Ho Chi Minh City’s periphery. Sites for the studio were focused on water and drainage networks that are enmeshed in this rapidly evolving rural and urban fabric. The studio considered how landscape architectural perspectives can help reshape urban ecology and community resilience.

Five exercises embraced the learning experience of the Landscape Architecture studio; from speculation, analysis, research, and multi-scalar mapping to response, students explored and understood the conditions and emergent issues in Ho Chi Minh City and the region. In the first part, students developed site analysis which broadly fit under three main umbrella topics: Adaptive strategies for flood mitigation and stormwater management in the context of infrastructural investment and decay, Regenerating urban ecologies and community resilience in the context of urban nature and Environmental change and expanding open space and co-production of the city in the context of development and regional economic dynamics. The final design exercise asked students to synthesize their theoretical and technical research with their observational/documentary fieldwork to generate a concise landscape response. This year, the final design exercise included topics such as: restorative and regenerative industries, development-induced displacement and risk mitigation, ecological restoration of water systems, sustainable regenerations of degraded urban fabrics, territorial regenerations in peri-urban areas, and ecological restoration of water systems.

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Network Awakening: Strategies for the reconnection and regeneration of shrunk green fragments in Saigon by MA Duo 59

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Positive Landscape Transformations from Negative Resources: A circular Economic Strategy for Hoc Mon by PAN Yichang 60

ARCH 7132a / Landscape Design Studio I Ho Chi Minh City Futures: Landscape Strategies for the urbanizing Tropics

Petrichor: Agroecological Diversity for a sustainable fresh Future by CHUNG Pui Yu, Ada 61

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ARCH 7132b

Landscape Design Studio IIB

Instructors : LU Xiaoxuan HILGEFORT Jason Teaching Assistant : SATTAYANURAK Kanisa

Studio Chiang Mai: Territorial Strategies for Inhabited Forests of Doi Suthep-Pui National Park In Thailand, as elsewhere, finding 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 the management of inhabited forests. Studio Chiang Mai recognizes this challenge and takes students’ learning to the verdant forest and mountain ranges in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, enabling students to engage in the frictions between rural and urban, culture and nature, and conservation and development.

This studio approaches Doi Suthep-Pui National Park both as an important case study within a wider examination of the cultural and environmental conservation in Southeast Asia and an experimental site for landscape architecture to provide alternative territorialization strategies involving stakeholders engaged in the rapid transformation of a national park with cultural, economic, and ecological significance. Students study and respond to a wide variety of past and ongoing territorial activities and programs within and around Doi SuthepPui National Park, including heritage conservation, biodiversity and water conservation, hilltribe relocation, opium eradication, community forestry, ecotourism and mass tourism, and real estate and infrastructure development. Lessons learned in Chiang Mai's Doi SuthepPui National Park inform ways to mediate conflicts in inhabited forests around the world.

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Guardians of Doi Suthep: Community-driven Landscape Strategies for the Conservation of a sacred Landscape by Eddie CHAN Shu Fai

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Royal Project 2.0: Revolutionizing Knowledge Evaluation and Preservation System in Northern Thailand by XIANG Linyu 64

ARCH 7132b / Landscape Design Studio IIB Studio Chiang Mai Territorial Strategies for Inhabited Forests of Doi Suthep-Pui National Park

Opium, Coffee, and Fruit Trees: Decentralizing Knowledge to mitigate social- ecological Risks in the Chiang Mai Highlands

by ZHOU Jiaxuan Crystal 65

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ARCH 7233a

Landscape Design Studio IIIA

Instructor : MAK Vincci

Village Old Trees: Storytellers of Rural Everyday Life and Space This studio is set up under the premise that heritage nowadays are often architecturaland monumental-centric, that natural and everyday heritages receive less attention and recognition. Hence, this studio takes this opportunity to engage students in develop aware-ness, critique, and way forwards for it.

Our projects started with a short exercise to learn about these old village trees, in terms of their form, space, character and aura, as well as their connection and relationship with the rest of the village landscapes. Then, the students explored how these old village trees are integral and significant components in everyday village culture: what are the cultural and traditional practices in the rural context, and how the village trees are part of that?

Our third exercise, first, fosters students to establish an understanding of the changing modes of interactions between old trees and people through time. Then, the second part engages in developing critical thinking of why and how the conservation of old trees as part of the everyday landscape in village context should be handled, in face of the evolving rural everyday life, cultural practices, and use of space. Harnessing all documentation and analysis works generated, the second half of the studio is dedicated to develop rural landscape design proposals that acknowledges old trees as everyday heritage, and incorporates critical reviews generated about the evolving everyday life and practices into the future planning of space and forward-looking conservation strategy. This studio topic is inspired by the instructor's recent Lord Wilson Heritage Trust project of Village, Tree, Heritage.

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Ruby in the Forest: Rivival of Mui Tsz Lam's Everyday Heritage starting from an old Tree by HU Xinyu Carol 67 67

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Revitalization - Abandoned paddy terrace farmland landscape design in So Lo Pun by FU Shiyi Andrianna 68

ARCH 7233a / Landscape Design Studio IIIA Village Old Trees Storytellers of Rural Everyday Life and Space

Ruby in the Forest: Rivival of Mui Tsz Lam's Everyday Heritage starting from an old Tree by HU Xinyu Carol 69

The University of Hong Kong Division of L andscape Architecture Annual 2022-23

香港大學園境建築學部設計年鑑 2022-23 Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

ARCH 7233b

Landscape Design Studio IIIB

Instructor : BEDIR Merve

Entangled Futures: Post-human Landscapes

Entangled Futures studio is situated at the intersection of ecology and technology, building on a “posthuman” agency, where the human, as a modernist definition, does not exist.

“Entanglement” is then the collective intelligence and complex relationships among people, natural and digital systems. Based on intensive site research, studio participants developed imaginative propositions between landscape design, social engagement and environmental sciences. The aim of this studio is to redefine interdependence, living knowledge and complexity in landscape design and eco-systemic thinking. This 4th edition of the studio took Lantau Island in focus; as the infrastructure of Hong Kong, i.e. the weekend houses, transportation hubs, fiber optic cable networks, mining and water reservoirs, forests, as well as spiritual sites, recreation, quarantine, and correction centres.

Planning visions accelerated the urbanisation of the island. Multiple visions (or lack thereof) for the island created polarized realities. The studio asked about possible futures of Lantau Island: Do these futures favour for seamless connectedness, or small networks of indigenous characteristics? Do they favour for technological acceleration, or intelligence by forests? What are the posthuman agencies of the island? Where do humans sit in these future scenarios? How does wetness of landscape relate to these futures?

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Bryological Intelligence Remediation in Mui Wo by LIN Heimen Vanessa 71 71

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1. Living Fossils in Shui Hau Wan by YIM Wan Ting Hannah 2. Post-future of Hong Kong Disneyland by DENG Yuyu Summer 73

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OOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL GARDERN DEMOGRAPHICS LAND USE REVENUE & EXPENDITURE RENTAL FEE GREEN AREA REGULATIONS Instructors : JUNG David GIAM Eikie

Urban Parks: Re-imagining Urban Identity and Ecologies of Hong Kong Park and the Zoological and Botanical Gardens The premise of the studio is to reimagine contemporary urban parks and specifically explore re-thinking Hong Kong Park and the Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Students considered the role and importance of green open space in metropolitan Hong Kong and developed a new sustainable future identity for both parks. Students conceptualized and illustrated the social, ecological, and economic urban ecologies that drove their design work by evaluating, analyzing, and reimagining the parks and their use. Furthermore, they studied how parks could become catalysts for a greener city vision and empower a more vibrant and sustainable urban ecosystem for the future. The studio explored urban perception, creation, and imagination, taught from both the landscape architects' and architects' perspectives. Moreover, the studio demonstrated how a multi-disciplinary approach led to revelatory urban architecture and landscape solutions. The studio began with a clay landform exercise to conceptualize form. The studio then developed individual open space concepts through diagrams, drawings, and models. The studio's goal was to prepare the students for practice, teaching them how to express and communicate their ideas and represent their design in a compelling and informative presentation.

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Landscape Design Studio IIID

Instructors : ZHANG Lily SHINJI Wataru

Islands Scenery of Hong Kong The studio asked students to approach design with a broadened, alternative perspective, enriching the process of design by opening it up to the knowledge and influence of fields outside of landscape architecture. By drawing upon sources from other expertise, students could envision a mode of design beyond typical practice or studies to engage an expanded concept of landscape. Specifically, students were encouraged to focus their attention on various island sites and conditions around Hong Kong, with in-person field study through site visits as the essential primary basis of their design thinking. This physical, visceral, experiential study of a place combined with both research and an analytical lens to inform a coherent architectural response. Following class collective field visits to various islands, students selected their own individual site from a preselected list as the basis of their design proposition. Students could also propose their own sites by convincingly demonstrating the significance and relevance of the site's potential in contributing to Hong Kong's multivalent island identities. Students formulated their unique design projects in response to the particularities of the selected sites. In essence, students complemented this syllabus by establishing their own brief, values, program, scale, and proposition for new understandings of what defined an island.

Students were encouraged to pursue sites and methodologies such as prototypes or design-build strategies that had potential to be further developed for thesis.

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Underwater Garden - Ocean Reforestation By Zhou Zhepang

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1. Bird Island By CHEN Jing 2. Cemetery and Beyond By TAI Tau Chou 3. Underwater Garden - Ocean Reforestation By Zhou Zhepang 81

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ARCH7142 / ARCH4705 ARCH3205 BA(LS)

Landscape History and Theory I

Landscape History and Theory II

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Guest Lecture on the Chinese Garden by Master YE Fang

Instructors : BEDIR Merve CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco

Theories and Practices of Contemporary Landscape Architecture: Landscapes of Modernity, Modernism and the Contemporary The discipline of landscape architecture has been transformed over the past few decades with the advent of new sets of theories and agendas formulated by landscape theorists and practitioners. Various protagonists have set out to reconceptualize the roles of landscape architecture and its field of operations. At the same time, a related set of intellectual currents has arisen to challenge our pre-existing ideas of Landscape, Nature, Culture, Environment and so forth. Such intellectual transformations lead to the emergence of new design and planning methodologies and subsequent spatial outcomes, which acknowledge and respond to changing ecological, economic, and social conditions.

This course sought to understand these contemporary positions by tracing their developments from the late 19th to 21st centuries. It posited that history, theory and practice are contingent upon one another and, together, they ground design in the particularities of time and place (Meyer, 1992). The course began by examining the emergence of modern landscape architecture and design thinking in different contexts as well as the changing relationship between the discipline and other fields over the 20th century. It focused on exploring the standard landscape concepts, such as Site, Form, and Ecology, particularly the ever-changing approaches to and definitions of these concepts.

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1. Base development scenario for clouded leopard in landscape ecology case study by CHAU Ngai Tung Bobo, CHENG Wai Jon Joni, and LO Suet Wing Sylvia 2. Deconstructing the use of global indicators and impact assessment in Southeast Asia by LU Tong, XIANG Linyu, and YANG Zihan Instructors : KELLY Ashley Scott CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco Teaching assistant : Saw Yu Nwe Sandra

Landscape Planning and Development Theory Ecological planning is undertaken by professionals across the fields of landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, conservation biology and environmental management. This course focused both on planning theory—bridging between the design disciplines and the axioms, problem framing, and project types of various landscape arts and landscape sciences—and the technical knowledge required for working within complex and contested natures. To understand these fields’ overlapping and contrasting approaches, this course covered: the history and legacy of ecological planning (from landscape architecture) and geographic information systems (GIS) since the 1960s; modern landscape ecology and spatial ecology (since 1980s); international development from the 1950s through post-development theory; environmental activism (since 1970s); the rise and global proliferation of environmental impact assessment and the environmental state (since 1990s); participatory planning, publics and counterpublics; and current trends in landscape planning and valuation, including ecological connectivity, ecosystem services, and automation (i.e., “smart Earth”). Students’ term projects for the course introduced them to how landscape ecologists and landscape scientists are engaging regional landscapes in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. These projects also helped students reflect critically on the selection and appropriation of secondary scientific research for environmental planning in practice.

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Thesis Preparation

Landscape Professional Practice

Instructors : CHU Cecilia L. JIANG Bin

Instructor : WILSON Barry

Teaching Assistant : LI Jiali

Thesis Preparation introduces students to the basic parameters of a thesis and equips them with the necessary skills for carrying out their thesis research in the spring semester. The course provides an overview of common practices of qualitative research in landscape architecture and other built environment disciplines. Course assignments are designed to help students to define the scope of their thesis, frame relevant research questions and arguments, and become familiar with the types and usage of reference materials for their projects. Lastly, the course enables students to articulate a critical intellectual position through the development of a tentative thesis topic, and by doing so deepen their understanding of the significant role of research in design practice. The is principally a seminar course with the Instructor serving as discussion leaders. The course comprises of lectures, discussions and other specified in-class activities. Weekly readings are provided as references to help students complete their coursework.

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Components of Sustainable Landscape Design Landscape Materials – Local Investigations Through immersive activities, students will become more familiar with the basic principles, common concerns and requirements of landscape architectural practice, including an understanding of: behaviour, ethics and professionalism; landscape services and consultancy; project team, practice and construction management; procurement and contract requirements. During the course, visits to both landscape practices and an active landscape construction site will be arranged in order to gain experience of the key procedures and activities required to manage a design office and to understand the procedures of managing a construction project to ensure successful realisation of the designer’s vision on site. Due to restrictions from COVID and the large group size these may be done virtually. Students without site safety green cards will be required to attend a one-day Construction Industry Training Authority (CITA) approved safety training course.

Students were given the opportunity to consider post-academic, working life by adopting professional working outlooks and habits across weekly sessions. Utilising 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: behaviour, ethics and professionalism; landscape services and consultancy; project team, practice and construction management; procurement and contract requirements.

Visits to practitioner offices, safety training and live construction sites assisted in the absorption of learning.

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Landscape Technology I

Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistants : WONG Caraccioli Brandon LAM Pui Kwan Candace

Grading and Drainage

Landscape Technology I dealt with the way landscape architects work with the land itself, shaping expansive landscapes and constricted urban sites. Lectures in the course addressed topics such as site analysis and responsive site planning, the design of structural elements, soils and earthwork, treatment of existing vegetation, storm water infrastructure and management, and site layout and road design. Within the course activities, students learned how to design and estimate cut and fill earthworks, and how to use contours to clearly illustrate designs, plotted the extent of water catchments, and designed paths and steps to resolve access between levels in accordance with regulatory requirements.

Students surveyed levels and plotted contours on an allotted slope on campus, using both a traditional surveyor’s level and electronically using LIDAR for example. They mapped the surveyed information on plan, plotted accurate sections and produced short videos reflecting on the advantages and disadvantages of the different survey methods.

In the final assignment, students produced a design for the slope they had already surveyed, incorporating ramps, steps, seating and an outdoor teaching space, producing a basic set of working drawings including as-built, general layout and levels plans, sections and details.

The course included field trips to the waterfall area of Hong Kong Park to look at a designed topography, the HKU campus to investigate various engineered slopes and stormwater infrastructure, and Tseung Kwan O to explore large-scale slope works and landscape improvement of former borrow areas from which fill material for land reclamation had been extracted. We visited the Department of Civil Engineering where Dr. Huang Peng explained his team’s ongoing research into the ‘Impact of Different Factors on Hyporheic Exchange in a Meandering Pool-riffle Stream’ intended to help redesign river channels so they can serve their flood-prevention function, boost ecological diversity and improve their appearance.

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Instructor : VALIN Ivan Teaching assistant : FAN Phoebe

Material, Assembly, and Performance in Landscape Architecture This advanced course in the MLA Technologies explored issues of materiality, detailing, fabrication, and performance in built works of landscape architecture. Through a series of case studies and site visits, the course discussed the relationships between material selection, implementation, and design intent across the range of project phases. The course was divided into three sections dealing with materials, assemblies, and documentation. The first section, Observations in Material Assemblies, introduced students to the most common hardscape and structural materials found in built landscapes. Lessons and discussions covered concepts of material origins, performance, and life-cycle considerations. Key material properties were explored, along with how the materials are worked, finished, and maintained. The second section, Detailing for Performance and Sustainability, examined how materials and structures combine to form paths, stairs, pools, decks, seating, screens, walls, canopies, and other features in the landscape. Students learn essential detailing and structural strategies for working in dynamic landscapes and environmental contexts. Finally, the course covered the logic and standards behind landscape architectural documentation in the design development, construction document, and fabrication stages. Together, we visited a number of sites across Hong Kong where best--and worst--practices could be observed and discussed.

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Landscape Plants and Ecology I

Landscape Plants and Ecology II

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Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistants : WONG Michelle QIN Qianqian Rita

This course enables students to develop an understanding of key ecological principles, and appreciate how these principles underpin successful landscape design and plant selection.

Students were introduced to the main ecosystems of Hong Kong and the concepts of succession, biodiversity, habitat structure, and ecosystem stability. The design component introduced the history, basic principles, vocabulary and process of planting design. Students examined the aesthetic, functional, and ecological characteristics of plants, how they vary over time, and how the designer interacts with these processes. They were encouraged to investigate how these concepts and principles contribute to the success (or failure) of urban landscapes and habitat creation and are an essential tool in successful landscape design.

In terms of horticultural knowledge, students were expected to familiarize themselves with a basic plant palette of commonly found plant species representing a range of urban and rural habitats. Field trips included visits to the HKU campus and Lung Fu Shan Environmental Education Centre, urban Sai Ying Pun, rural and coastal habitats near Tung Chung on Lantau, Central Ferry Piers, West Kowloon Park, a half day soil workshop hosted by David Sheil in the Lam Tsuen Valley, and a visit to the Tai Tong Tree Nursery of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of the HK Government.

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Instructor : PRYOR Mathew

Ecological restoration and enhancement are growing areas of landscape practice, encompassing mitigation projects such as stream course restoration, quarry and landfill rehabilitation, constructed wetlaxxxXnds and seawall enhancement. These are often generated in Hong Kong through the need to mitigate or compensate for damage to existing ecological areas (or consequential impacts) resulting from residential and infrastructural development. ARCH7153 is a survey course that explores ecological restoration from the perspective of the landscape architect, looking first at ecological definitions; historic andcontemporary debates over the contest between ecology and development; the possibility of landscape and ecological mitigation within the EIA process; and then at the strategies and techniques commonly used in ecological restoration work.

Site visits to restoration projects- Ho Chung River revitailsation, HK Wetland Park, and Shek O Quarry restoration- were supported by excellent case study presentations from expert practitioners: Liz Leven, Dr Mike Leven and Tony Nip. In addition to annotated bibliographies and a short essay on ecological mitigation, students created ecological maps, habitat descriptions, and an ecological restoration proposal for abandoned farming areas within the Ho Chung Valley.

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Horticulture and Design

Urban Arboriculture

Instructor : ROBINSON James Ian

Instructor : ROBINSON James Ian

One of the major differences between Landscape Architecture and Architecture is an appreciation for, and understanding of, horticulture and arboriculture and their influence on the design process.

This course was presented online apart from the occasional site visits, and was designed to provide students with the essential background knowledge required to successfully manage trees in urban landscape. After taking an initial overview of the physical and commercial contributions that trees make to the overall quality of life in the urban areas, we then looked at Trees and the Law and the obligations faced by managers who are responsible for trees in facilities coming under their “duty of care”.

This course addressed most of the common issues and was geared towards providing the student with the basic knowledge required in order to make informed decisions and produce relevant designs regarding the horticultural aspects of Landscape Architecture.

The course dealt with botanical and horticultural principles and practices in relation to design. It covered the hierarchical nature of the plant kingdom, the physiological relationships between the structure and function of plant organs; responses of plants to environmental factors: gaining an understanding of the techniques used for plant multiplication: practical techniques for plant installation; how to manage the planting of interiorscapes, roof structures and green walls; the management of landscaped sites in terms of nutritional requirements; and control of pests and diseases and the selection of grass types for a range of uses. The course also looked at the essential Contract Documentation required for the letting and subsequent management of both landscape implementation and maintenance contracts.

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An important part of the course looked at how to assess/appraise trees suitable for transplanting and under what circumstances they can be transplanted considering various site constraints, species limitations, and tree ages. After reviewing the difficulties associated with, and the techniques developed for, the preservation and protection of trees within construction sites in Hong Kong, students learned how to manage the overall process beginning with the early assessment of the site through to the provision of physical protective measures including various management strategies for handling contractors and frontline workers. Finally, students were introduced to the value of conducting and using Inventories in the management of the urban woodland.

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Advanced Topics in Sustainability

Tree House Drawing By YU Fengzhu and WANG Xinyi

Instructor : MAK Vincci

Tree House Conservation in the Countryside This course examined the complex relationship among quality and characteristics of urban environments, especially landscape settings, and human’s psychology, behavior, and wellbeing status. The main objective was to promote designers’ critical thinking skills, research skills, and encourage evidence-based design approaches. The course led students to observe, analyze, and understand people’s mindsets, behaviors, and status in their daily life within a specific physical, cultural, and economic context. Then, students could use the knowledge and skills to develop their own design philosophy, methods, and concepts for creating appropriate living environments for people. The course demonstrated and explained theories, scientific evidence, and design cases in multiple types of landscape settings. Each class included a short presentation & comments time, and a formal lecture.

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Tree House 3 LIDAR Scan By HU Haoran and TANG Haoran

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Advanced Topics in Landscape History

Landscape Psychology, Behavior, and Well-being

“Attabad Lake: Infrastructural Responses to Different Contingencies” by SONG Ziqi Sally and CHEANG Brian

A Tragedy of Underprivileged in Hong Kong: The case of a community living in Transitional housing by YIM Wan Ting Instructor : JIANG Bin

Instructor : LU Xiaoxuan

Teaching Assistant: QIAO Lin

The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure

Theory, Scientific Evidence, and Design Applications

Responding to contemporary ecological pressures and current high demand for infrastructure development worldwide, this course brought together a series of thinkers and researchers from the design commons across Eurasia to discuss different methods, models and measures of large scale, long range infrastructure projects for the 21st century.

This course challenged the commonplace assertion that the work of infrastructure remains invisible until it fails. Instead, It opened a horizon on infrastructure’s cultural valence that remains primarily symbolic — of technological development, of political patronage, of resistance to sovereign power. In addition to the weekly guest lectures and occasional screening of films, students worked in pairs to develop a videographic essay. Focusing on the multilateral transnational infrastructure development projects at China’s borderlands that are playing a significant role in current Chinese initiatives to create transnational China-centric development corridors, these videographic essays explored the following questions: How are environments and infrastructures built? Who builds them? What materials are required? What influences and forces act upon them? How are they changing?

Through digital means, students explored and interpreted historic spatial processes and contemporary ecologic patterns to open a new lens on urbanization, where representation is, in and of itself, a form of research.

The course examined the complex relationship among quality and characteristics of urban environments, particularly landscape settings, and human psychology, behavior, and well-being status. The main objective is to promote designers' critical thinking skills, research skills, and encourage evidence-based design approaches. The course led students to observe, analyze, and understand people's mindsets, behaviors, and status in their daily life within a specific physical, cultural, and economic context. Students then used the knowledge and skills to develop their own design philosophy, methods, and concepts for creating appropriate living environments for people.

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The course demonstrated and explained theories, scientific evidence, and design cases in multiple types of landscape settings. Each class included a short presentation & comments time, as well as a formal lecture.

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Components of Sustainable Landscape Design

Case Studies in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

Sai Kung calcium carbonate bricks By CHUNG How Yu Jonathan

London Wetland Centre Biodiversity and Land Use Analysis in Present by KONG Ho Hin

Instructor : TRUMPF Susanne

Instructors : ECHEVERRI Natalia WANG Ting

Landscape Materials – Local Investigations

Case Studies in Ecological Restoration and Wetland Creation

This seminar introduced key concepts of materials flows and examined the use of local materials in contemporary landscape architecture. The course used the exploration of material qualities as a tool to understand wider concepts of sustainability, urban resources, as well as fabrication and analysis technologies. Topics explored throughout the course ranged from the role of waste materials and circular economy concepts to the exploration of a specific material and its peculiar analysis. Students were asked to challenge theoretical frameworks through rigorous research and testing of a local material.

This elective course delved into the subject of advanced ecological design, focusing on wetland creation, remediation, and other ecological restoration techniques. The course material covered historical and traditional approaches to wetland restoration, surveyed restoration and remediation typologies, and their ecological and hydrological characteristics. Additionally, we explored considerations behind wetland planning and implementation, reviewed policy and regulatory frameworks supporting wetland creation in mainland China, and examined emerging technologies in artificial wetland creation and enhancement. The course integrated site visits and case studies with topics drawn from the experiences of engineers, hydrologists, and ecologists, as they worked alongside landscape architects. Students traveled to mainland China for site visits in Shenzhen and Wuhan, where they had the opportunity to visit a variety of contemporary projects and meet with local specialists and professionals in the field.

The course was structured around three assignments with reading/writing, design research, and material analysis/fabrication components.

Through deep reading, students were first introduced to different aspects and topics in the field of landscape materials. In a mapping assignment students reflected on the complex systems and flows around a material used in Hong Kong’s landscapes and translated findings, observations, and data analysis into an intrinsic, complex drawing. In the last assignment, students prototyped material components made of local resources.

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Foundation Design Studio I

Instructor : CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco Teaching Assistant: SATTAYANURAK Kanisa

Network, Fieldwork This design studio, the first in the PDLA+MLA curriculum, introduced the fundamental skills, concepts, and practices of the landscape architecture discipline. Projects in this course allowed students to engage with sites and with environmental systems in Hong Kong. These fundamentals were rooted in an exploration of reading and representing place, relation, material, time and process. The studio emphasized drawing and modeling techniques not only as a creative tool, but also as a documentary research method based on critical thinking. Design here emerged as a technical and specific response and sites are understood as valuable pieces of a broader (eco)system.

This year, through two projects, the course explored the relationship between biotic and abiotic components and their intrinsic roles for envisioning natural networks. Students focused their interventions on the flood plain and seasonal wetland along the back of Pui O beach where they examined a seemingly undifferentiated ground and draw-out the complex interactions between soil, vegetation, water, and climate through a series of analytical tracings, site investigations, and strategic interventions. Themes during this course included material systems, dimension, typology, pattern, indeterminacy, and simulation.

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1. Pok Fu Lam Reservoir by LI Huanyang MuTSing & TIN Yun Yue Tina 2. Sai Tau Beach by YU Yik Hei Josh & HO Chi Chung Terry 3. Lung Kwu Tan Valley by BAN Han & LI Sze Yin Anna 105

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Instructor : ECHEVERRI Natalia Teaching assistants : HO Po Yu LAM Oi 1.

Rewilding the City: Exploring Nature/Human Relationships in Urban Hong Kong TThis studio explored landscape design under contemporary theories in urbanism, geography, and sociology, that consider ecological, social, and political processes as part of a single complex system. Critiquing the potential anthropocentric bias in analyzing these systems, the studio also explored the potential of non-human perspectives to frame design strategies.

The studio focused on King's Park, one of Kowloon's "green lungs" and an open space fragment surrounded by dense urban development. Despite some prominent geological features, the park has changed dramatically since the 1900s, with major transformations a t the turn of the 20th century and again in 1960. For the first project, students worked on the extended region of Kowloon that surrounds King's Park, assembling a catalog of animal “agents” who made their home or passage on the site. Students diagrammed species’ environmental needs, their movement ranges, energy flows, and human interactions. In Project 2, students then examined the current conditions and histories of the King’s Park to draw the site speculatively, revealing patterns and processes from a moment of significant change.

In the third and final assignment, students designed a sequence of 'wild' classrooms for local schools and bird watching/nature groups. The projects explored designs for human and non-human occupants, and engaged with the sites many layers (historical, ecological, geological, material).

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ARCH 7139 / Foundation Design Studio II Rewilding the City Exploring Nature/Human Relationships in urban Hong Kong

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The Recharging of Water Intersects with Human and Non-human by LIM Wing Kwan 110

1. Design Plan by LI Huanyang 2. Learning from Nature by HO Chi Chung 111

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Landscape Technologies and Techniques

Instructor : COATES Gavin

This course combined the two primary technologies employed by landscape architects to shape space and function in the landscape: landform and planting design. The threedimensional literacy and observation skills required to articulate these elements were introduced through various landscape representation techniques.

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Assignments consisted of an Existing Section Drawing Assignment in which students measured and drew to scale a wooded area of the campus, a Topographic Design Representation Assignment in which students created a model of an imaginary landform and translated it into a scale contour plan and section, and a Planting Design and Representation Assignment consisting of a planting plan for the reinstatement of a small park on a site previously resumed for a COVID quarantine facility at Kai Tak. Field trips were essential for understanding the relationship between planting, topography, and human intervention and behavior in the landscape.

Urban visits included Yuen Long Town Park to explore a well-established designed open space, a cross-sectional walk through Sai Ying Pun from the hillside woodland above the HKU campus to the harbor front at the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park to look at the urban context, and West Kowloon Park to experience a relatively recently designed and planted l andscape.

During a visit to ArkEden on Lantau, students watered and applied fertilizer to tree seedlings planted on eroded slopes, sketched the landscape from life, experienced the reality of natural topography and how it corresponded with contour maps, and observed children’s nature-based education in action. At the end of the course, students reflected on their experience of the course and demonstrated that they had gained invaluable skills and insights into the basics of the technologies and techniques required for landscape design.

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Introduction to Landscape Design

Environment and Communities of The City

Instructors : MAK Vincci Mak CHU Cecilia L. Teaching Assistant : CHEN Xinhui

Agency of Change and Ethics of Practice

Collage of Hong Kong’s Heritage Streetscape with Reference to Johnnie To’s Sparrow (2008) by CHEN Chun, CHONG Hoiching, and GU Dian.

Instructor : CHAN Yin-Lun

Disciplinary Explorations What is landscape? How might it be interpreted, engaged, represented, described, classified, and shaped?

ARCH1029 Introduction of Landscape Design: Disciplinary Explorations is the first course in the History and Theory sequence and explores landscape architecture as a profession, an academic discipline, and a medium or an idea. As an introduction to the topic, students were challenged to think critically about landscape in ways that shaped an expanded understanding for the relationship between individuals and the environment. This expanded understanding was developed through the actions of looking, interpreting, reading, discussing, and ultimately representing landscape. Each of these activities helped reveal the layered conditions, relationships, and processes embedded in any landscape.

The sequence of lectures was topically structured with each week focused on a particular framing or expression of landscape. The assignments of the course encouraged students to analyze the meanings of landscapes through text, images, and films. The final project of the course asked students to describe and critically analyze a Hong Kong landscape and the values it expressed through films and videos using concepts discussed in lectures, tutorials, and the course readings.

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What were the extents and limits of architects, landscape architects, and planners’ power to affect environmental and social change? How did they work with different communities and stakeholders to bring about betterment in people’s lives? What were the paradoxes in today’s design practice with the advent of neoliberal urbanization and concomitant crisis in housing, public health, environmental protection, and infrastructure provision?

What assumptions did different built environment professionals hold about the merits of their work and to what extent could these be seen as extensions of their ideologies? What reflexive knowledge did designers, policymakers, and community members need to acquire in order to address the multifaceted problems we were facing in a globalizing world?

This seminar provided an introduction to the intertwined concepts of environment, community, and design and explored the contexts that shaped their relationships in diverse localities. In contrast to conventional taught courses, significant emphasis of the course was placed on student-led activities designed to facilitate active learning through rigorous debates and participation. Weekly seminar topics were structured to provide a systematic introduction to key ideas of the social roles and ethics of design practice and explore the nature of emergent design activism in recent years. It also introduced students to different methods of studying the built environment and communities.

This course was taught in two parts. Part A (Week 1 to 7) introduced foundational perspectives on environment, community, and design, with case studies to explore design practices that implemented these ideologies. Part B (Week 9 to 15) focused on the politics of planning and emergent concepts of environmental futures (details to be provided at a later date). Throughout the semester, focus was placed on connecting theoretical concepts with practices via close examination of international and local case studies. The ultimate purpose was to help students develop a critical understanding of the complex forces that shaped the built environment in the past and present and reflect on the multi-faceted challenges facing design practitioners in the 21st century.

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Landscape Media I

Instructor : CHAN Howe

Landscript This course aimed to critically introduce and explore the media of landscape and representation skills like drawing and fabrication. We expanded and punctured the boundary of the media of landscape, the media of drawing, and the intervals between them. The drawing in landscape architecture, as James Corner described, can be “a plot, necessarily strategic, maplike, and acted upon in essence.” We thought of drawing landscape as a process which let us to experience and express what we saw and conceived, and moreover, to speculate and construct in the physical space.

This course provided students with a foundation knowledge and skills into: landscape and site appraisal via site observation; making and reconstructing landscapes via digital tools; spatial analysis via landscape visual representation. Particular attention was paid to understanding the complex mechanism in the dynamic, projective, and dialectical constructed network of design, media, and imagination. Assignments included exercises in which students can practice and be familiar with the new graphics skills they obtain from the course lectures. Three assignment projects were built upon one another to form a learning process. The students are required to develop their own methodologies for communication and design.

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Functional Change From Defend to Liberal by LIM Wing Kwan 117

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Landscape Media II

Instructor : TRUMPF Susanne Teaching assistant : APPLEBY Madison

Materials and Fabrication This course introduced 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 1:1 fabrication, the course covered a variety of scales and modes. Three projects transformed the products of material observations into design methodologies and created an understanding of abstraction, rigor, and transformation through experimentation.

In the first project Material Diaries, students envisioned a future landscape material and explored its potentials theoretically and practically. The hands-on testing equipped them with a sensitivity for designing with a range of materials and relevant production processes.

The second project Shaping Material & Terrain focused on parametric 3D modelling and digital fabrication technologies. It created familiarity with technologies of computational design and handle a range of tools for digital fabrication available within the faculty.

Drawing inspiration from these two assignments, students developed in their final project a one-person seat or shelter. Material testing and tools of digital site analysis were ongoingly explored to help shape the device. Students worked with a combination of digital and analogue fabrication techniques; drawings, mock-ups, and a 1:1 prototype to communicate and test their design.

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Plastiglomaterate Seat Prototype by LIM Wing Kwan Tanya 119

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Landscape Systems

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Instructor : KEHRER Jutta Teaching assistant : FAN Phoebe

This seminar looked at landscape as an assembly of natural systems (geological, hydrological, climatic, and ecology) in continuous dynamic interaction with human systems (building development, urban infrastructure, materials / waste). Through landscape case-studies, readings, and technical and creative exercises, we examined some of the theories that underpinned our ideas of landscape, and explored relationships between the built and the natural, at site, district, and territorial scales.

The course helped develop foundational skills in reading landscapes and ultimately for assessing their specific qualities and functions, as well as reflecting critically on terms commonly used (and abused) in practice at that time such as sustainability and resilience, performance, and productivity. The course critically looked at the change of landscape over time and identified some of the most important factors that had been shaping landscape to the current land mosaic.

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This exhibition explored the possibilities of designing new landscapes from such a natural, immediate, and sensorial point of view. Rather than relying solely on the visual and producing work that remained only at the level of drawing, students spent time outdoors and around the city to observe and collect various little plants that were often overlooked, such as common weeds. With these plants that composed our everyday environment, students considered their own landscape design potential based on firsthand experiences and discoveries, such as color, scale, scent, texture, growth patterns, and originating locales.

Through these new and classic methodologies, first-year PDLA students expanded their understanding of Hong Kong’s day-to-day surroundings and inherent values to create their own new small landscape designs.

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In fact, nature itself did not offer only us humans anything in particular. Instead, we reacted to and formed a part of the earth’s embedded cycles. We naturally relied on all our senses, in addition to sight, in our everyday lives, yet for some reason, we did not routinely utilize these senses for design. If we broadened our awareness, we realized that the information we saw with our eyes, frequently obtained from the computer screen, compared to the input we heard from our ears, might be completely different, just as when we touched and smelled something, we might also wish to experience how the taste corresponded.

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Thai-Myanmar Border Studio The Thai-Myanmar Border Studio builds on ten years of design-based experiential learning across mainland Southeast Asia for our landscape undergraduates, where students spend one term engaging large-scale development problems via landscape architecture. This year, students focused on landscape planning strategies for a series of controversial and long-delayed development projects along the Thailand-Myanmar border, including hydropower on the Salween (Thanlwin/Nujiang) and Yuam rivers, a coal mine concession in Chiang Mai province, industrial zones in Mae Sot, and the planned large-scale water diversion tunnel from the Salween to Chao Phraya basins.

For 10 days in mid-March, students traveled roughly 600 kilometers overland and met with several environmental and human rights groups, including International Rivers, The Border Consortium (TBC), Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN), EarthRights International (ERI), indigenous community groups, and academics from Chiang Mai University and Chulalongkorn University. After returning to Hong Kong, students individually spent 8 weeks proposing landscape planning strategies that together: reacted to strategic and long-running resistance through community mapping, villager research or citizen science; addressed power and knowledge in reforestation programs; enabled or nurtured multiple migration pathways in the agricultural sector; and confronted infrastructure investment and contested value systems in dual-governed regions. Students had their proposals juried by a panel of experts from sociology, ecology, and geography, in addition to designers and planners.

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ARCH4202 / Landscape Design Studio VI Thai-Myanmar Border Studio

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1. "Situating science, impact scope and strategies for slow resistance on the Yuam River and its tributaries in northern Thailand" by LAI Man Ki Maisy 2. "Training and trafficking: Producing new pathways for migrant labor through the agricultural landscapes of the ThaiMyanmar border" by LI Ziyuan Lena

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ARCH 2201

Landscape Design Studio I

Instructors : CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco DELPON Andres Teaching Assistant: WONG Michelle

In-motion “The motif is the foundation of a work. It provides logical development and form. The motif has emerged during improvisation through the influence of the stimulus, your imagination (the choreographer) and your movement interpretation of the two.” (Fiona Smith, Lucy Pocknell, 2010)

Landscape Design Studio 1B explored the elements and principles that underpin landscape design. This course moved on from the previous studio where objects and situations were pre-determined by generic site constraints, minimal program, and archetypal users.

Instead, students addressed a real site, an open-ended program and an undetermined number of users. In parallel, Studio 1B built upon previously acquired knowledge and skills.

This course proposed the concept of Motion as the main concept to explore. It was structured around two complementary projects, both aimed at expanding and consolidating foundational landscape design vocabulary. The first project reflected on worldwide case studies related to the discipline which deal with abrupt topographical changes. Through the use of research and application of different means of representation, students developed a series of transects and composite drawings to describe the spatial configuration and relations in each of the cases. In the second project, students intervened an area in Sai Ying Pung dealing with existing infrastructures and public equipment along the Hong Kong waterfront promenade.

The exercises and workshops included within these two projects delved into the concepts of scale, proportion, hierarchy, boundary, uniformity of area, and human proximity.

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Free Way Park Composite by LO Lai Yin Daniel and CHENG Sum Yu Jannie 133

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1. Model by LAU Ka Yee Janessa 2. Dancing with Nature, Photomontage by CHIANG Yi-hsien 135

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ARCH 2202

Landscape Design Studio II

Instructors : MAK Vincci FAN Phoebe

Refuge in the Landscape

Landscape Design Studio 2 continued the exploration of landscape design where students investigated the spatial, experiential and temporal aspects through various design exercises with an emphasis on developing visual thinking skills. This studio introduced a variety of site inquiry methods at a site scale that required students to consider users, programming and context in their design.

The site chosen for the project was Po Toi Island. Locating at the southern tip of the Hong Kong territory, Po Toi Island has unique geology and rock formation, making it one of the most popular hiking destinations in Hong Kong. Each student designed a refuge in the landscape along the existing hiking trails on the island, to provide hikers a rest-stop along their way. From finding inspirations, learning from the rock and geological formations, students were able to further study and explore both the scientific and cultural aspects of the rock formations within the island. They then moved onto landscape tectonics, creating physical models which reflected movements in both nature and design. From there, students learnt from inspirations and started developing their design concepts for the refuge, followed by embracing ephemeral qualities of the site and designing their refuge as a part of a greater network.

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Rock Drawing by WU Fan Lucy 137

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This studio explored landscape as a product of interactions between natural and manmade systems (rather than just as a set of objects). It helped students to develop skills in researching, observing, interpreting, recording, and representing the landscape and to expand students' abilities to analyze, conceptualize, and present integrated and meaningful designs for site-scale landscape interventions.

The studio emphasized the use of physical models, aligned with analytical drawing, as essential steps in the design process and as a way of conveying spatial forms, material qualities, and narratives of past histories, current activities, and possible futures. Through these, we could gain insight and understanding of the interrelationships, connections, adjacencies, dependencies, pathways, etc. inherent in every landscape and use these to 16 develop coherent rationales for designed intervention.

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ARCH 3204 / Landscape Design Studio III Urban River Revitalisation

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ARCH 3202

Landscape Design Studio IV

Instructor : TRUMPF Susanne Teaching Assistant : WONG CARACCIOLI Brandon

Community Playscapes

Landscape Design Studio 4 investigated the role of playscape in Hong Kong and analysed the topic typologically, morphologically, and socially. The course focused on concepts of community design, paying attention to the role of society and urban context in the design process.

This course’s assignments did not only aim to propose design solutions, but to also understand how Hong Kong’s urban landscapes are made, managed, and maintained.

Understanding public open space as a common good, students reflected the needs of the community and embraced the presence of diverse stakeholders.

In the first project, students used walking as a tool to document public space in the neighborhood and to uncover tangible and intangible narratives of the area. Based on workshops and readings, students then developed strategies hinged on communityoriented practices in landscape design.

The second project introduced urban playscapes through typological study. In their final proposals, students developed site-specific topographic playscapes for Third Street Playground and Kwong Hon Terrace Garden, two playgrounds set to undergo modification within a five-year period as stated in the Chief Executive’s 2019 Policy Address.

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Clay model workshop. Model by LAW Lok Tung Vanessa 145

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ARCH 2201 / Landscape Design Studio IV Community Playscapes

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ARCH 1102

Plants and Planting Design I

Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistants : WONG Michelle QIN Qianqian Rita

The Plants and Planting Design course approaches the role of planting in landscape design from two main areas of study, namely planting design and horticultural knowledge in the context of various habitat types. The planting design component introduced the history, basic principles, vocabulary, and process of planting design, along with the aesthetic, functional, and ecological characteristics of plants, how they vary over time, and how the designer interacts with these processes. The horticultural component provided an introduction to plant anatomy and physiology, the interaction between plants and their surroundings, nursery production, planting specification, and maintenance.

Assignments included a Plant Reference Assignment which required students to go out into the field and record plants in rural and urban habitats. A Plant Section Assignment tasked students with producing accurate hand-measured and hand-drawn plans and sections of wooded areas on the campus, focusing on the structural reality of the trees and other vegetation and how they interrelate with one another, the topography and adjacent built structures. Finally, students produced a planting design and planting plan for a proposed public open space.

Students were expected to familiarise themselves with a basic palette of commonly found plant species, representing a wide range of urban and rural habitats in Hong Kong. At the end of the course a plant identification exam was held in which students were required to provide the botanical names of plant samples and photographs.

The course hoped to encourage life-long investigation of plant species and their application in any given environment from an experiential as well as an academic standpoint. Field trips included HKU campus, a visit to Tung Chung to explore coastal and village habitats, and Ark Eden at Mui Wo on Lantau to experience former farmland and hillside woodland and scrub habitats. We also joined a soil workshop hosted by David Sheil at the Lam Tsuen Valley, and were introduced to native tree propagation at the Tai Tong Nursery run by the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department of the HK Government.

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Plants and Planting Design II

Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant : WONG Caraccioli Brandon

This course approaches the role of planting in landscape design from two main areas of study, namely planting design and horticultural knowledge, in the context of various habitat types. The planting design component introduced the history, basic principles, vocabulary, and process of planting design, along with the aesthetic, functional, and ecological characteristics of plants, how they vary over time, and how the designer interacts with these processes. The horticultural component provided an introduction to plant anatomy and physiology, the interaction between plants and their surroundings, nursery production, planting specification and maintenance. Students were expected to familiarize themselves with a basic palette of commonly found plant species, representing a wide range of urban and rural habitats in Hong Kong.

Assignments included a Plant Reference Assignment which required students to go out into the field, record plants, and produce video ‘virtual field trips’, one in a rural habitat and one in an urban habitat. A Plant Section Assignment tasked students with producing accurate hand-measured and hand-drawn plans and sections of wooded areas on the campus, focusing on the structural reality of the trees and other vegetation and how they interrelate with one another, the topography and adjacent built structures. Finally, students produced a simple planting design and planting plan for an urban courtyard.

Field trips were a mainstay of this course, providing a multitude of real-life situations where the reciprocity between horticultural knowledge and design intent, and the longterm successes and failures of planting designs, could be observed and discussed on site.

Field trips included a visit to Hoi Ha Wan hosted by Friends of Hoi Ha to learn about and experience coastal, woodland and village plant habitats, a visit to Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden to see their native tree nursery and forest regeneration initiatives on formerly denuded hillsides, and tours of the HKU campus itself.

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Ecology and Sustainability

Field Trip to Admiralty - A Chinese Banyan

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Instructor : KEHRER Jutta Instructor : HAU Billy Chi Hang

Teaching assistant : FAN Phoebe

This course seeked to enable students to develop an understanding of ecology and biodiversity and how the integration of ecology in landscape design can improve the liveability of cities. The course investigated vegetation succession, animal and plant interactions, urban biodiversity, biological invasion, creation of microhabitats in urban greeneries and ecosystem services of urban vegetations. The global trend in ecological landscape design for climate change adaptation was highlighted. Global and local case studies on urban biodiversity designs were illustrated.

As with any art or science, the successful practice of landscape architecture was dependent on a comprehensive understanding of materials and their related technologies.

In landscape, we could choose from a very broad spectrum of materials from the natural to the artificial, from the inert to the organic, and deploy them over a wide range of physical and temporal scales. Technology in Landscape Architecture explored components of the natural landscape, how we could manipulate them to form new landscapes, and how the processes of doing so could be a methodology for design.

The course was designed to introduce the fundamental principles of ecology and sustainability by means of lectures, and assignments, reinforced with site visits illustrating the concepts discussed in class. Students used the site visit experiences to analyse ecological aspects of the existing landscapes and undertook an assessment of an existing landscape in terms of its sustainability.

The course covered the key topics of landscape design, which built on each other to develop an understanding of basic landscape elements of the landscape and how they fit together. Typically, each session started with a short introduction to the week’s topic, followed by a series of in-class exercises/assignments relating to the topic.

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Landscape Representation I

Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistant : WONG Michelle

Forms and Methods This course is designed to foster habits of accurate and disciplined observation, as well as imaginary flair, and to introduce students to a range of hand-drawn illustration skills and techniques that they can draw on throughout their careers.

The first of three sections, Illustrating Landscapes, focused on the highly detailed representation of a 350mm square area of ground at 1 : 1 scale, followed by abstract interpretations of the same area. The process was then reversed, and students were asked to produce abstract blots, then to reinterpret these as imaginary, figurative landscape drawings.

The second section, Projecting Landscapes, required students to make a three-dimensional model of an imaginary landscape, which was then represented using contour drawings and sections. This was followed by perspective drawing techniques, where students produced perspectives of buildings on campus and these were then reinterpreted as collages.

In the third section, Dynamic Landscapes, students were introduced to life drawing of the human body, and still life drawing of plants, trees and vegetation. Finally, the life drawing, vegetation drawing, perspectives and other illustration skills were fused in before and after renderings of street scenes. Students drew the streets in their existing state and then reimagined them as pedestrianized precincts with street furniture, pedestrians and trees.

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Landscape Representation II

Instructor : FAN Phoebe

Conceptual and Abstract Representation: Ambiguous Perception - Reimagining Public Space

Landscape Representation 2 introduced ways for students to utilize visual representation as a tool to represent conceptual and creative processes through a series of exercises engaging in Hong Kong’s public space and fluctuating urban nature.

Focusing on the observation of dynamic built environment and objects around us, students learnt to explore how drawings, models, and other representational tools are essential to the creative process of visualization as they provide opportunities for comprehending ideas in numerous ways. The connection between the creation of landscapes and their portrayal is crucial and throughout this course, students were able to experiment with an iterative process of documentation and speculative creation. To create a comprehensive and multifaceted understanding of landscape, students used diverse methods of depiction. From observation to documentation, to interpretation, imagination, and finally representation.

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Landscape Representation III

Instructor : CHEN Bin

Systems and Simulations Visual communications through graphics and models are key training elements and practices for landscape architects. When dealing with real-world built and natural environments such as urban, vegetation, topography, watershed, and ecological processes, it is critical to embrace technologies of digital representation, spatial analysis, and information generalization to better understand the complexity of landscape systems across time and space. As a good leverage and promising trend, Geographical Information System (GIS) is considered as a spatial environment for the synthesis of natural science intelligence for landscape architecture and design.

The main objective of this course is to empower our studies with i) GISystem – spatial and temporal skillsets of data collection, analysis, and visualization to address practical landscape studies; ii) GIScience – quantitative and interdisciplinary mindsets of problem finding, solving, and implications to deal with real environmental problems through research and practices.

A key feature of this course is to use pedagogies of combined lectures and tutorials to introduce a series of geospatial datasets, GIS analysis, and mapping technologies as research, design, and planning tools to decipher complex landscape systems, explicit environmental changes, and the underlying drivers from human and nature.

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Landscape Representation IV

Instructor : CEVALLOS BARRAGAN Francisco Teaching Assistant : APPLEBY Madison

Operation and Fabrication The dynamic and continuous evolution of technology impacts the way of making and understanding of our cities and territories. With the rapid technological advancement, several computer-aided technologies have been embedded in the design processes through a series of software packages which allow the exploration of new possibilities in the design methods, representation, modeling and fabrication. Furthermore, landscape architects shall be conscious of the available technological resources and the wide range of possibilities when dealing with problem-based design challenges. Likewise, they shall be critical of the proper use of controlled analytical and modelling techniques. Therefore, students in this course investigated and experimented with data visualization, form finding, parametric and digital fabrication technology by working on projects with specific programs and limitations. They explored new possibilities in architecture and landscape design for pursuing and improving the materialization of their concepts. Students learnt and applied a wide range of digital tools and methods to analyze, represent, model and fabricate. The course was structured with lectures, tutorials, research, discussion and design workshops to learn specific workflows. In addition, during this course, students got familiar with all the available equipment and tools at the machinery at the Faculty of Architecture’s Fabrication and Media laboratories.

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On Agendas

On Methods

Instructor : ETTEL Nikolas

Instructor : ETTEL Nikolas

Teaching Assistants : WONG Michelle WONG Brandon Caraccioli FAN Phoebe HO Dai Rong Heather ZHAI Qifei Frances LIU Jiani Vicki

Teaching Assistants : WONG Michelle WONG Brandon Caraccioli LI Zhiting Jasmine MAN Pak Him Jay WONG Nicole CHEUNG Kyo

The Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses (FICs) are a year-long initiative aimed at all Firstyear undergraduate students of the Faculty of Architecture. AFIC1003 – On Agendas is offered in the fall semester and AFIC1004 – On Methods in the Spring.

The Faculty Interdisciplinary Courses (FICs) are a year-long initiative aimed at all Firstyear undergraduate students of the Faculty of Architecture. AFIC1003 – On Agendas is offered in the fall semester and AFIC1004 – On Methods in the Spring.

The courses offer a multi-disciplinary perspective of the Built Environment disciplines - this year through the lens of research methods. Through collaborative projects, students became innovative team-players, equipped with creative problem-solving and communication skills. In addition, students has sharpen their awareness of the increasing inter-disciplinary nature of their chosen practice and thereby broaden their understanding of their responsibilities within an increasingly complex world. The goal is to develop shared interests and appreciation that help to form long-lasting, cross-disciplinary friendships for students’ future careers.

The courses offer a multi-disciplinary perspective of the Built Environment disciplines - this year through the lens of research methods. Through collaborative projects, students became innovative team-players, equipped with creative problem-solving and communication skills. In addition, students has sharpen their awareness of the increasing inter-disciplinary nature of their chosen practice and thereby broaden their understanding of their responsibilities within an increasingly complex world. The goal is to develop shared interests and appreciation that help to form long-lasting, cross-disciplinary friendships for students’ future careers.

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Relaunch of MSc Conservation (2022)

The Master of Science in Architectural Conservation (MSc Conservation) was established at HKU in 2000 to provide professional training for conservation practitioners. With the relaunch of the programme in 2022, we continue that legacy and strive to ensure that our students’ experience is engaging, supportive, and designed to meet the many new challenges heritage professionals face today.

These challenges range from climate change and global demographic shifts, to the fourth industrial revolution which blurs the lines between digital, biological and physical spheres, forever changing the way we live our lives, understand our heritage and protect our most valuable heritage assets for future generations.

This new global context requires heritage professionals to develop a broader interdisciplinary understanding of heritage and a more comprehensive toolset for heritage conservation, embracing the indivisible link between our natural and cultural heritage nestled in diverse landscapes and ecosystems.

Towards that end, the MSc Conservation programme was relaunched in 2022 to broaden and deepen built heritage and landscape conservation teaching and research within the Faculty of Architecture. The new curriculum, which emphasises the integration of heritage with Sustainable Development, aims to equip students with the technical competencies and intellectual skills required to guide decisionmaking in conservation planning, design and management in the 21st century. As part of the programme, students travel to internationally recognised sites of cultural significance to learn about the challenges of heritage conservation within the region and learn from the strategies employed by specialists to protect, enhance and revitalise these sites. This year students visited Singapore and Malaysia to experience World Heritage Sites and have discussions with leading specialists in both countries.

With its internationally recognised expertise in architecture, landscape architecture, planning and building construction, HKU provides an ideal interdisciplinary setting for educating well-rounded conservation professionals and future heritage advocates. By joining our programme, students become a valued member of this active conservation community and have the potential to contribute to the growing scholarship and conservation work across the world.

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Instructors : CHU Cecilia L. SHETABI Linda NG Debra Jean BRENNAN Bernard WU Roger

This capstone course facilitated student demonstration of competency in a selected specialization area through independent research. The thesis manifested as an original research piece within the conservation framework. Topics were chosen based on their relevance to students' interests and capabilities. The thesis process offered students an opportunity to express their own stance in relation to contemporary conservation discourse and to integrate the pertinent knowledge acquired throughout the MSc Conservation curriculum into their thesis project. Each student collaborated with a teaching faculty member as their supervisor and engaged in regular consultations and guidance with their advisor. Throughout the thesis process, students closely collaborated with their advisors, participated in periodic progress assessments, and showcased self-directed independent work in the articulation, development, and completion of a final research thesis. Students were expected to manage their progress to meet the required deadlines with satisfactory progress. To successfully complete the course, students were mandated to present their thesis project to a panel of reviewers, comprising professionals well-versed in the field, in a formal presentation. This presentation served as an opportunity for students to demonstrate their capacity to advocate for Conservation and contribute to the field's advancement.

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Retracing the Ordinary Landscapes of Diasporic Chinese: Reinterpreting marginalised histories through curatorial re-presentation

Student : CHING Lukas Advisors: CHU Cecilia, BRENNAN Bernard

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Student : SHAO Yiru Advisor: BRENNAN Bernard

China Qiaodu Museum in Jiangmen, CQM Stage Set by CHING Lukas

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The aim of this thesis is to create a curatorial framework and re-presentation approach in the heritagisation of marginalised histories. With a focus in Chinese diasporic histories, the interaction between materials, people and their networked society become the subject of inquiry. A theoretical framework has been developed to provide a method in telling the stories of material movements that interacts with place, its spatial production and the meshed network that connects them together. This understanding helps contextualise the gap between human and non-human entities in how they are represented. In doing so, we begin to recognise that cultural landscapes are not dynamically shaped by human forces alone but material forces as well. As well as theory, the physical spaces of diasporic representation has been investigated at both ends of the migration corridor. One located in the Wuyi region in PRC and the other in Vancouver, Canada, these case studies have been analysed in their effectiveness in the heritagisation of diasporic histories. These new forms of understanding in theory and in current museum practices have been applied to the reinterpretation of the Chinese-New Zealand hyphen. The material network in Chinse-owned economic spaces of production becomes the focus of this investigation. The value of understanding of such histories, is to give voice to an invisible past and providing an opportunity to legitimise their identities within a dominant society. Affect plays a key role in learning and unlearning of the material agencies of the marginalised societies within a dominant one.

This dissertation investigates the complex interplay of human and non-human entities shaping post-industrial ruin landscapes from posthumanism perspective, focusing on Hong Kong's Ma On Shan Iron Mine. This historically significant site serves as a case study to explore the transformative power of material agency. It challenges traditional anthropocentric perspectives of heritage interpretation and management by exploring the material agency of non-human entities and their influence on visitors' affectual and emotional responses. The research focuses on the interplay of human and nonhuman entities – magnetite, vegetation, and water bodies – in shaping the site's socio-cultural narrative. The study emphasizes the aesthetic and emotional allure of industrial ruins, and the concept of material agency in understanding these reactions.

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By acknowledging the material agency of non-human entities, it posits that a more inclusive and sustainable approach to heritage conservation management can be developed, leading to a richer, multi-dimensional interpretation of the site's identity. This dissertation thus offers an innovative perspective in rethinking the narratives of post-industrial ruins and rewilded spaces, proposing an alternative approach to heritage conservation and interpretation that respects the continuous interplay of human and non-human factors in shaping such landscapes.

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Connecting heritage and community: A landscape approach to the conservation of Jingxin Temple, Shanxi, China

Student : HAN Yuting Advisor: SHETABI Linda

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An Analysis of Shenzhen’s Implementation of Planning and Heritage Conservation Policies: The Cases of Urban Renewal in Shajing Ancient Fair and Hubei Ancient Village

Student : LI Yunqing Advisor: SHETABI Linda

Rain Garden Design Proposal for Jingxin Temple by HAN Yuting

Analysis of Heritage Policy in Shenzhen by LI Yunqing

Shanxi is the province with the most cultural heritage in China, but due to imperfect policies, insufficient funds, and lack of attention by local residents, many heritage sites are not protected well. This study takes Jingxin Temple in Shanxi Province as an example, referring to the design and principle of ecological landscape, to explore the prospect of sustainable development of Chinese heritage from the perspectives of the management system, villagers' emotions and heritage conservation. The study found that the landscape approach can 1) protect the architectural structure and internal cultural relics of Jingxin Temple; 2) improve the resilience and resistance of Jingxin Temple to climate change; 3) reduce construction and maintenance costs, and involve the surrounding villagers in the protection work of Jingxin Temple.

The objective of this study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how national planning and heritage conservation policies influence the relationship between heritage conservation and urban renewal in Shenzhen. Moreover, the study also aims to explore how Shenzhen develops its unique policies for the onservation of urban historic areas and urban village renewal, considering the city’s historical context, cultural positioning, as well as practical cases that exemplify these policies in action. Previous research has primarily focused on issues of social management and urban development, design approaches, and transportation aspects. However, none of these analyze the relationship between policy rhetoric, policy implementation, and the implications of these actions on urban renewal. This research adopts the qualitative research method, encompassing informal surveys and discussions conducted with a diverse range of individuals, including villagers, migrants, and other local residents guided by policy analysis and a comparative case study framework. The findings indicate that Shenzhen operates under the influence of national policies while simultaneously cultivating its distinct approach to self-development, resulting in the formulation of specific conservation policies.

Thus providing an alternative strategy to traditional heritage conservation and management approaches that often neglect the surrounding landscape and focus primarily on the built heritage asset.

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Conservation Planning and Management Studio

Instructor : SHETABI Linda

This studio course is designed to help students apply the principles of a values-based approach to urban conservation and management to develop a Conservation Management Plan that retained, enhanced, and protected cultural heritage resources for the benefit of the public and future generations in a sustainable manner. Framed by the 5Ps of the SDGs: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership, students engaged with cultural heritage management frameworks and tools to develop management policies and guidelines in support of conservation decisions and actions that protected,enhanced, and ensured the sustainability of heritage assets. Throughout the course, case studies were used to discuss various management issues that arose in the field of conservation.

The studio focused on select areas of Kowloon slated for revitalization in the Urban Renewal Plan for Kowloon City. The area had a mix of residential, commercial, civic, and government buildings with half being more than 50 years old; bearing unique historic and heritage significance. Through understanding and applying the principles of urban conservation, with a focus on cultural mapping, urban morphology, community participation, and spatial interpretation, in an advanced level of integrated architectural design and management planning, Design and Management students worked as a team to select a heritage asset of their choice for conservation. Although each team member submitted a separate assignment for grading, both assignments formed a cohesive conservation design and management solution. From Reading and Analysis of historic-demographic contexts, towards Planning and Synthesis of designmanagement resolution, the process was an interactive inquiry with stakeholders in the community, experts from relevant disciplines, and self-motivated exploration of critical issues on conservation by individual students in preparing their final submission.

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Instructor : CHANG Wallace

Students of this course engaged with practical problem-solving exercises in the design and adaptive reuse of heritage buildings, sites, settlements, and landscapes in the context of Hong Kong, Greater China, and East and Southeast Asia. Building on the knowledge acquired in earlier core courses (i.e., preservation, restoration, adaptive reuse, new additions to a historic site, community engagement, and heritage stewardship, etc.), students researched and analyzed a specific study area, defined major problems and opportunities in conservation planning, and formulatedcontextually and culturally-sensitive design propositions. Supporting the main design project, several training sessions were organized to equip students with a range of technical skills, including aerial photography, photogrammetry, and GIS mapping techniques.

For each assignment, students were asked to support their decisions with arguments, develop their analytical and advocacy skills through milestone presentations to a panel of invited reviewers that included professional experts and community stakeholders.

Framed by the 5Ps of the SDGs: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership, that year concentrated on the main theme of Conservation and Community. Through understanding and applying these principles of urban conservation, with a focus on cultural mapping, urban morphology, community participation, and spatial interpretation, in an advancedlevel of integrated architectural design, geared to the local context of Kowloon City, the studio prepared conservation students to be equipped with grounded conservation knowledge. From Reading and Analysis of historic-demographic contexts, towards Interpretation and Synthesis of designmanagement resolution, the process was an interactive inquiry with stakeholders in the community, experts from relevant disciplines, and self-motivated exploration of critical issues on conservation by individual students in preparing their theses.

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Critical Issues in Hertiage Conservation

Charters and Legislation of Conservation

Students Debate on Critical Issues of Heritage Conservation

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This course explored key critical issues in the field of heritage safeguarding policy and contemporary conservation practice. Through a combination of teaching and learning activities, students reflected critically on emergent global challenges to heritage safeguarding and the different ways in which heritage conservation may have contributed to sustainable outcomes; supported social cohesion through the extension of a community's cultural continuum; integrated traditional know-how into the contemporary methods of environmental management; and incorporated cultural rights-based approaches into development planning strategies. To give local specificity to the theoretical discussion – as well as to inculcate a sense of responsible and competent professional practice – Hong Kong-based winners in the UNESCO Heritage Conservation Awards program were invited to contribute to class discussion by sharing their experiences (and the challenges) in achieving socially transformative results with heritage conservation projects that were holistically designed and executed using interdisciplinary methodologies.

This course introduced the guiding principles and legal framework for heritage conservation. Through lectures, case studies, and in-class activities, students became familiar with the doctrines and terminologies of international charters and regional legislation and examined and assessed their relevance and application in the contexts of Hong Kong, Greater China, and East and Southeast Asia. Students learned how policies and legislation might support, assist, and constrain the conservation of heritage and to critique the laws and their enforcement. The course also introduced the professional responsibilities and duties embedded in legal and policy frameworks and discussed ethical standards and codes of conduct related to cultural heritage management. To understand the complexities of heritage conservation, students visited the cultural landscape of Fanling Golf Course and historic Kong Ha Wai Mansion in New Territories, to examine the tensions arising from development decisions on these two sites within the frameworks of international charters, national policy, and sustainable development.

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Methods of Heritage Research & Interpretation

Built Heritage and Its Significance

Lecture by Dr. Anita Chung, Head of Heritage at Tai Kwun

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Instructors : SHETABI Linda CHU Cecillia L. NG Debra Jean

Instructor : TAN Ian

This course provided an overview of the common research methods employed in the field of heritage conservation and its allied disciplines, including the basics of qualitative and quantitative research and data collection, techniques of interviews, cultural mapping, and heritage interpretation. Course assignments were designed to help students engage with a selection of research methods and develop interpretations for a variety of heritage assets and sites. They provided the foundational knowledge required to develop their final thesis, frame relevant research questions and arguments, and become familiar with the types and usage of reference materials for their final projects. Finally, the course enabled students to articulate a critical intellectual position through the development of a tentative thesis topic, and by doing so, deepened their understanding of the significant role of research and interpretation in heritage conservation.

This foundation course provided a comprehensive introduction to the theories and practices of built heritage conservation. Students learned about the histories of the conservation movement in the local and global contexts and became familiar with terminologies and key concepts, such as conservation, restoration, historicity, authenticity, integrity, world heritage, shared heritage, intangible heritage, adaptive reuse, and Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL). Attention was paid to cross-cultural comparisons of different types and scales of built heritage and their associated social, cultural, and economic values, with a particular focus on Hong Kong, Greater China, and East and Southeast Asia. Case studies were used to illustrate the processes of understanding tangible and intangible values of heritage buildings, sites, and landscapes. These included a walking tour in Kowloon City to not only examine built heritage assets that had been preserved or demolished, and the area's listed and unlisted historic buildings, but to also explore the very different treatments of archaeological remains at Sung Wong Toi MTR Station, Kowloon Walled City Park, and Nga Tsin Wai.

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Conservation and Assessment Techniques

Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development

Repairing Historic Masonry Walls at Tai Kwun

Assessing the Economic Vibrancy of Kowloon City

Instructor : PHILLIPS Steve CHUI Jack

Instructor : CHUA Mark H NG Debra

This course provided a comprehensive introduction to the techniques of documentation and assessment in heritage conservation. Students gained knowledge and experience in documenting several built heritage sites of different scales, typologies, and construction technologies used in both Colonial and Local Lingnan/Cantonese architecture. Through multiple visits, they learned how to produce records and communicate accurate observations in a precise format and repeatable method. These site visits included Tai Kwun, Pak Tai Temple, and State Theatre, where students learned about traditional building materials used in Hong Kong, enabling them to identify the original materials as well as interventions that may or may not be damaging to the building. Basic principles of material science and construction techniques were explained to help students determine the conditions of built heritage, decide the approaches to put right defects, and outline conservation recommendations. Students learned to produce a Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) report, which included preparing a Baseline Study on the site's historic development and documenting a site's/building's typologies, architectural features, and construction technologies. Students then assessed the proposed changes to a heritage site, which formed the conservation recommendation and policy section of an HIA or historic building appraisal. Through this process, students learned how to justify change and outline potential mitigation measures.

Heritage Economics and Sustainable Development introduced basic economic and social theories that were relevant to heritage conservation, including property rights, cultural and social capital, the governance of common-pool resources, and urban development processes that were relevant in assessing the interrelated values of built heritage assets.

It examined how conservation, as an increasingly important component of economic and cultural policy in different parts of the world, could be harnessed to achieve sustainable economic development and resource management. Students acquired techniques to assess the economic viability and the costs and benefits of different types of conservation initiatives necessary to justify the conservation of heritage assets. During this course, the students made an economic landscape map of the assigned street to assess the economic vibrancy of the area and identify the factors which influenced this vibrancy.

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Materials and Technologies in Conservation

Cultural Landscapes

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Preparing Plaster for Historic Walls

Training on the Repair of Historic Mouldings

Students Re-pointing Using Lime

MSc(Cons) Field Trip to Lau Fau Shan Oyster Farm

Instructors : PHILLIPS Steve CHUI Jack

Instructor : BRENNAN Bernard

This course allowed students to gain insights into the scientific and construction principles used in conservation and restoration techniques. Students acquired fundamental knowledge of the processes of material deterioration and structural performance of historic buildings. They learned how to assess their conditions, diagnose defects and common problems, and to make suitable recommendations for their conservation.

Through visits to local heritage sites and workshops, the course introduced different types of historical construction techniques and traditional building crafts. As part of the requirements of this course, students produced their own conservation repair package for a chosen heritage site. The course was taught through a combination of lectures, building visits, and contractor workshops. During the contractor workshops, the students gained hands-on experience in mixing lime mortar, repointing stone walls, refinishing historic wood surfaces, repairing decorative moldings, and much more.

This elective course introduced the concept of cultural landscapes and its relevance to heritage conservation. The course examined cultural landscapes as defined in multiple disciplines such as cultural geography, environmental history, landscape archaeology, as well as its practical implications within international heritage frameworks. Students learned how to identify and assess different types of cultural landscapes and explored 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.

As part of the learning process, students gained firsthand experience in walking through and engaging with a variety of existing cultural landscapes in Hong Kong, including Ma On Shan Iron Mine, Lau Fau Shan oyster fields, and Mai Po nature reserve, as well as visiting Haw Par Mansion where the Tiger Balm Garden, an important cultural landscape, was only evident through interpretation and the existence of the original private mansion within which the garden was an integral but public space.

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Dissertation Coordinators: REN Chao CHEN Bin Teaching Assistants: CHEN Guangzhao YIN Shi

Dissertation Part 1 is a student-led, semester-long research project that serves as the culmination of the MScSED curriculum. This process allows students to articulate their positions and interests within the sustainable environment discourse and synthesize their acquired knowledge through a dissertation. The teaching focuses on literature review, research methodology, and case studies. By the semester's end, students develop rigorous research proposals and conduct literature/design case studies, which are defended verbally and through various graphic media.

This course requires a public presentation and submission of a dissertation proposal.

This document outlines the baseline requirements, expectations, and overall schedule of milestones for the MSc Dissertation. Dissertation Part 2 involves a student-led research project where students work closely with their advisors throughout the preparation process. They participate in regular progress reviews and demonstrate self-directed independent work in articulating, developing, and completing their research projects and dissertation writing. Students coordinate with their advisors to schedule individual meetings and are expected to manage their work progress to meet required deadlines with satisfactory development. Students are encouraged to seek feedback from others, such as faculty staff, specialists from other departments, outside professionals, and peers, when appropriate, and to foster these secondary relationships early on in the process. This comprehensive approach to the dissertation process helps students develop valuable research and writing skills while exploring their interests within the sustainable and environmental design field.

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In alignment with the United Nations' goals for sustainable cities and communities, this paper investigated the impact of lift-up building design on urban air quality at pedestrian level in Wuhan, aiming to assist architects and urban planners in better city planning. Lift-up design, a typical architectural measure, improved pedestrian-level wind environments and provided additional urban public space without consuming excessive land resources. Prior research confirmed that lift-up floors increased wind speed and thermal comfort for pedestrians while promoting pollutant dispersion.

Consequently, Wuhan's City Planning Bureau implemented policies encouraging real estate developers to adopt lift-up designs. This study compared pollutant dispersion conditions in upstream and downstream street canyons, lift-up areas, and the upstream and downstream areas inside street canyons. Three variables were examined: lift-up height (h), lift-up rate (w), and lift-up positions (p), using a variable control method. The research analysed the correlation between spatial morphology and pollutant concentration in adjacent blocks, aiming to understand the pollutant diffusion mechanism within adjacent blocks based on the widely-used RANS k standard model. Simulation results were assessed to determine the range of morphological parameters conducive to pollutant control, identify non-recommended lift-up designs, and propose reasonable design strategies for reference. These findings could guide future architectural and urban design efforts. By focusing on lift-up building design, this research contributed to the ongoing pursuit of sustainable urban development and improved air quality in densely populated areas.

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Urban population growth led to increased city expansion, energy consumption, and carbon emissions from dwelling constructions. Traditional steel and concrete buildings were unsustainable due to their high Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As a result, mass timber constructions, using biomaterials like wood, gained attention for their potential to reduce GHGs and sequester carbon. Governments and city planners drove the transition towards timber cities, focusing on assessing the embodied carbon of mass timber constructions throughout their life cycle. While numerous studies compared GHG emissions of mass timber at the building or community level, few focused on high-density cities like Hong Kong. This study aimed to quantify embodied carbon emissions in the transition to timber cities, using Hong Kong as an example, evaluating mass timber's potential to reduce emissions and achieve carbon neutrality, and projecting future mass timber distribution in the city. A simulation was developed to calculate timber material requirements for four future scenarios (0%, 10%, 50%, 90%) of Hong Kong's urban population living in wood-based residences. A comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was used to evaluate embodied carbon in Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and conventional materials during early life stages. The "cradle-tosite" system boundary included material production, transportation, and building construction stages. Material data was sourced from the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) database, with Ecoinvent applied to literature. QGIS illustrated potential future timber building distribution in Hong Kong, using global population and urban land projection data, along with official files from the Planning and Lands Department of Hong Kong.

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Teaching Assistant: Yilun LI

This course was an introduction to climate-sensitive design principles and solutions for solving the climate change-related environmental problems. Students were encouraged to team up to conduct their own group project. The aims of this module were (i) to provide an introduction to the physical basis of climate change; (ii) to discuss how a changing climate might impact upon the built environment; (iii) to consider what adaptation and mitigation actions could be taken to reduce this impact; (iv) to develop an understanding of how a climate-resilient built-environment and landscapes could be designed.

This course introduced the principles of bioclimatic building design, aiming to optimize thermal comfort while minimizing energy requirements for heating and cooling. The impact of various architectural choices on indoor climate was examined in detail. The influence of specific design features, such as a building's orientation, was not fixed but rather dependent on other design details, including wall color and window shading conditions. These quantitative interactions between the effects of different design elements were extensively discussed throughout the course.

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NDVI value reduced · Significant green space loss can be found in Yuen Long, Lan Tau island and northern parts of the New Territories

NDVI value maintained or increased · Conserved forest areas · High-density areas with the limited variation of land use

The relationship between the change in urban expansion and green space anaylsis by HUANG Yufei, LIANG Xiyue, LUO Yu The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design by HU Qiansu, LI Yilun, LI Ziming, LU Huan, QIAO Lin, YU Xujing Instructor: CHEN Bin WU Shengbiao Teaching Assistants: LI Ziming YU Wenbo SZETO Chloe

Our living planet is changing with a lot of pressing environmental challenges. These changes directly and indirectly impacted the functioning of nature and human health. There was a high need to comprehend environmental changes in the context of multi-scale spaces and times. Geospatial data, such as remote sensing, social sensing, and crowdsourced datasets, offered new and unique insights to advance our scientific understanding of environmental changes and the interaction between humans and the environment. The primary objective of this course was to empower our studies with fundamental knowledge. The course initially examined the theoretical framework of an integrated approach to smart and sustainable development. A brief introduction to the technical aspects of the modeling structure and simulation engines laid the foundation for understanding how tools could be applied in practice.

The remainder of the course concentrated on methods for applying these tools to design studies and interpreting valuable information from simulation results.

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This hands-on course was designed to complement the team projects in Term 1 and to introduce students to analytical procedures and computational tools relevant to the research agenda of the Master Programme. The course consisted of day-long weekly sessions and covered various aspects of fieldwork techniques, including indoor and outdoor observations and environmental measurements. Students also learned computer modeling techniques for selected processes and spaces, followed by testing and validation against measurements and simulations. The effects of solar, thermal, airflow, and daylighting processes were assessed in comparison to targets and benchmarks. Throughout the course, students were introduced to various computational tools and their application in diagnostic tasks and generative processes. The knowledge and skills gained during the course were crucial for the successful completion of the team projects and for undertaking the master dissertation research in Term 2.

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In the second module of SEED6103, we delved into the fascinating realm of simulating and modeling noise in urban contexts. Our exploration began with a thorough examination of the fundamentals of sound and noise, including their sources and how they propagate in urban open spaces. We also explored the profound impact of noise on the quality of life in cities. Throughout the module, we explored various approaches and techniques for modeling sound propagation in urban settings, with a particular emphasis on the advantages offered by GIS-based noise models.

To apply our knowledge, students were tasked with analyzing traffic noise in a specific urban neighborhood and devising innovative methods to enhance the acoustic environment. As we concluded the module, we introduced the concept of soundscape design/planning, highlighting its potential to augment acoustic quality in cities as a supplementary measure to conventional noise control methods.

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City Risk and Resilience: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices

SS P1 Minimum Landscaping Requirements (required)

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It is suggested to design a green space on the south side of the site, planting trees and grass. According to the planting area, the design can achieve a greening rate of about 40%.

There are many public transport facilities within 500 metres of the site, such as 1 metro station, 6 bus stops and all buildings in the development have an accessibility index of 15 or more

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SS 8 Urban Heat Island Mitigation (3B) Landscape architects are advised to plan the landscape of the site so that the overall tree cover is greater than 20% to improve the thermal comfort of the site and reduce the urban heat island effect. And the design needs to be sustainable, understanding the habits and characteristics of each tree species and predicting how the plants will grow in ten or more years.

SS 10 Outdoor Thermal Comfort (1) In the stage of site design, it is recommended that the landscape architect plant green plants at the entrance and design a boulevard, or design a corridor connecting the southern park, providing more than one shaded path for pedestrians.

Green Building Assessment and Climate Responsive Design by LI Junjie

Resilience in the Design and Development of Healthcare Assets in the Post-COVID-19 Era by WANG Zeyu

Instructor: AU Benny LEUNG Chi Fung

Instructor: LEUNG Kam Shing

Teaching Assistant: SZETO Chloe

This course initially introduced the background and development of green and sustainable development. It then explored the environmental impact of building activities on the ecosystem using several established environmental concepts, such as Embodied Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Energy Life Cycle Assessment, and 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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This course offered an introduction to city risk and resilience, focusing on cities with the capacity to plan for and mitigate the adverse impacts of disasters and climate change, ultimately saving lives and unlocking economic and social potential. The course aimed to catalyze a shift from a primarily solid, single-stream city-level resilience operations approach to a longer-term, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary package of technical and financial services. This approach aimed to build a pipeline for viable projects at the city level, which, in turn, fostered resilience.

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Environmental Policy and Management for Megacities

Topical Study I in Environmental Design

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Alternative Design Proposal for Green Deck Project - Urban Oasis by LI Junjie, LI Wenxin, MA Jiaxin, SONG Peng, WANG Haishuai, WANG Zeyu and ZHONG Yanqi

Instructor: WONG Kam Sing

Instructor: CHAN Edwin

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Teaching Assistant: SZETO Chloe

The course provided an advanced introduction to public policies for protecting the environment, and to conflicts over the use of those policies and who had the authority to make decisions about them. The course introduced students to some core concepts in environmental economics and familiarized them with the dilemmas and trade-offs that governments faced in making decisions with respect to the environment. It also aimed to make students aware of a range of factors that needed to be considered when making environmental policy. By the end of this module, students were expected to provide an introduction to the latest trend of environmental policies in Hong Kong as an example, including the blueprints on climate actions, air quality, waste management, biodiversity, etc.; to illustrate how the recent formulation of key environmental policies in Hong Kong had taken into account various conflicting factors, and who had been involved in the decision-making process.

The course's objectives were (i) to introduce theories and principles related to sustainable urban development and the environment; (ii) to review government policies and controls regarding the design, construction, and management of the built environment for urban sustainability; (iii) to explore innovative and smart solutions and management practices for sustainable environmental design; and (iv) to apply different approaches and practices in integrating various disciplines of knowledge to execute a sustainable environmental design project. The course materials were delivered through a combination of lectures, case studies, studio assignments, group project reports and presentations, and individual study papers. The subject matter was taught using a case study approach, promoting a student-centered learning approach that involved project reviews, site observations, and the reading of recommended documents and relevant information.

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Designs on the Future

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Sustainability of the Built Environment

Instructor : PRYOR Mathew Teaching Assistants : LIU Vicky FAN Phoebe WONG Caraccioli Brandon HO Dai Rong Heather WONG Michelle

This course intended to inspire thinking about the way we should construct our future living environments in order to find the most sustainable balance. Students explore the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as they apply to Hong Kong, addressing issues of population and urbanisation, materials, resources, and human systems, as a way of understanding what a sustainable future might look like. Students evaluate different media and strategies that people have used to advocate for more sustainable approaches to the environment and community.

The course is taught in a blended learning format with students undertaking online activities in preparation for interactive F2F workshop sessions. The online components deliver the bulk of the course content, while the workshop sessions, which involve a wide range of group activities and exercises, help develop an understanding of the content and allow us to explore contexts and interconnections and apply the concepts to different scenarios. Throughout the course, students work within the award-winning Curios e-learning platform, an interactive virtual environment within which groups can develop and present their coursework, including SDG videos, infographic diagrams, advocacy comic strips, timelines, quizzes and feedback postcards.

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The City: Histories of Urbanism and the Built Environment

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The course explores the practices of urbanism across a range of contexts from antiquity to the present day. The organisation of the course content was such that each lecture focused on a different city, analysing the development of urban forms and structures of governance from a particular perspective, ranging from defence and control to disease prevention and climate mitigation. Through lectures and tutorials, students were able to develop insights into the social relations and human struggles that have been produced by, and continue to be produce, particular types of built forms in different places over time. In the broadest sense, the course used urbanism as a lens to understand the relationship between urban forms and the complex, multiple processes that constitute cities and their urban milieus.

As a final project, the students constructed a two-part narrative about a city at two different times in history. The purpose of the exercise was to allow them to gain deeper insights about urban change. By constructing an “urban story” through the lens of a narrator and engaging with a specific issue(s) that linked the past with the future, this assignment offered students both a means to creatively express their ideas as well as to develop a critical perspective of the complex forces that shape cities and urban practices. It also encouraged them to attend to the emerging social and environmental challenges confronting human communities in the coming decades.

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Nature in the City Beyond the Concrete Jungle

Instructor : COATES Gavin Teaching Assistants : CHEUNG Kyo NG Hou Ming Matthew O’DELL Bradley

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This four-week Common Core Course attended by 98 students focused on our human relationship with nature as manifested in the fabric of the city around us.

Firstly, we examined the history of this relationship, the spectrum between artificial and natural, and natural laws such as interconnectivity which was introduced in the form of an interactive game. How do our cultural preconceptions, urban infrastructure, lifestyle and economics, compliment or flout those laws? Students produced a written opinion piece on an example of nature in my home, examining our attitudes to that chosen aspect, then extrapolating what this tells us about our relationship with nature generally.

Secondly, we embarked on a critical review of the manifestations of nature in the city, asking why any given relationship is the way it is. Student groups produced short videos observing a particular aspect of nature in the city, highlighting our sometimes contradictory relationship with nature.

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24 Frames Communicating Ideas through Film

Instructor : ETTEL Nikolas Teaching Assistants : WONG Michelle LAW Tsz Hin

Films move at 24 images (or frames) per second, while the stories they convey move us emotionally. Either in the form of daily-shared stories on our phones or streaming platforms at home, motion pictures are deep-seated. This course investigated films as transformative tools for thought. Students learned about interesting ways of watching films, film criticism, and especially how to communicate powerful ideas through short films. By the end of the semester, students were able to translate their own ideas onto the screen by producing an individual short film that used the method of remediation to visually discuss Hong Kongrelated themes. Driven by an international range of film productions across time periods and genres, they began to develop a visual vocabulary through terms such as mapping, observation, narrative, and montage, in order to create their own short film adaptations.

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BIG FOREST, small forests Exhibition : HKU Postgraduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture 26 Aug - 17 Sept 2022 10:00 am - 8:00 pm PMQ S314, 3/F, Block A, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central

Curators Lily Zhang Wataru Shinji Exhibition Assistants Law Pak Lun Parco Yeung Hei Marco Participants Ban Han Bao Shutong Bonnie Cheng Tsz Ho Dave Ho Chi Chung Terry Lei Yanqing Ayla Li Huanyang MuTsing Li Sze Yin Anna Lim Wing Kwan Tanya Tin Yun Yue Tina Sun Xiaofe Kathy Yu Kaixin Kyle Yu Yik Hei Josh

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Currently housed under the Department of Architecture, the PhD Program in Landscape Architecture is intended for persons who wish to enter teaching and advanced research careers with a commitment to making an original contribution to the field.

Students carry out research under the supervision of Faculty members in the Division of Landscape Architecture on a specific subject of enquiry. Research areas include but are not limited to: the built environment and urban landscape for public health and well-being; landscape and environmental planning; urban agriculture and green infrastructure; natural and cultural heritage conservation; and histories and theories of planning and urbanism.

The Program is connected to a number of research centres associated with the HKUrbanLab, the research arm of HKU’s Faculty of Architecture. The program hosts a biannual Research Postgraduate Student conference and a CIB Student Chapter, which organises international conferences at regular intervals. In addition, students also have opportunities to present their ongoing research work at monthly departmental Research Postgraduate Seminars as well as to participate in teaching activities.

Post-Consumption Space in Historic Urban Areas

CHEN Xinhui MLA, University of Virginia

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Improving Urban Neighbourhood Green Space for the Health and Well-being of the Older Adults to Age-inPlace The research aims to investigate the relationship between

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Virtual Nature as Medicine: Exploring Impacts of Highly Simulated Nature on Patients’ Mental Health at an Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Hub in Hong Kong

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JIANG Bin (Principal supervisor)

open land cover products as label data. The noisy labels,

JIANG Bin (Co-supervisor)

top-to-down and eye-level landscape characteristics at

CHEN Bin (Co-supervisor)

intra-class heterogeneity, and inter-class homogeneity are

LI Weifeng (Co-supervisor)

sexual crime locations. This study will identify and propose

JIA Beisi (Co-supervisor)

three issues to address using deep learning algorithms.

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strategic interventions for reducing the risk of sexual crimes.

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Nature as the Antidote: Examining the Impact of Urban Forest on Drug Addiction Rehabilitation

Landscape Framework for an Adaptive Urbanism in Chiang Mai, Thailand

LUO Lan

Historic cities are embedded with a deep knowledge of

SATTAYANURAK Kanisa

MLA, Sichuan Agricultural University

their ability to adapt, having survived centuries of social

MLA, HKU

and political upheavals and natural disasters. Beyond a Three key objectives of this study are 1) to identify the

mere preoccupation with preserving forms and aesthetic

acute and chronic impacts of nature intervention on

Supervisors :

styles, the study will investigate the formation of place, the

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the rehabilitation process; 2) to propose the promising

JIANG Bin (Principal supervisor)

use of place, and the adaptability of place to celebrate a

LU Xiaoxuan (Principal supervisor)

mechanism and pathways of the natural environment for

JIA Beisi (Co-supervisor)

more nuanced and adaptive perspective on heritage

CHU Cecilia Louise (Co-supervisor)

treating addiction; and 3) to provide practical suggestions

conservation, emphasising community resilience and

for creating supportive environments for addicts.

human well-being.

From Mental Health to Spiritual Health: Using Psychophysiological and Neuroscientific Measures to Investigate the Impact of Sublime Nature in Immersive Virtual Environments

Wetland Governance: Constructed Landscape and Modernity towards Ecological Civilization in Tai Lake Basin, China QIAO Lin

WANG Ting BA Urban Planning and design (First Class Honors),

MLA, Zhejiang Univerisity

University of Liverpool; MLA, HKU

The study aims to identify whether and to what extent various types of sublime nature, in contrast to ordinary

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This study looks at the development process

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nature, impact individuals’ mental health and spiritual health.

JIANG Bin (Principal supervisor)

of contemporary wetland parks and the

CHU Cecilia Louise

It seeks to investigate the association between mental

LU Wilson (Co-supervisor)

production of social meanings and values.

SENG Eunice

health and spiritual health induced by sublime nature.

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LU Xiaoxuan

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Examining Environmental Impact on Drivers’ Mental & Physiological Health and Performance in Urban Roads

Using HRNet and HighResolution Satellite Images to Model Tree Canopy Height in Hong Kong YU Wenbo

XU Wenyan This study will explore the relationship between

MA, China University of Mining and Technology

BSc SYSU, MSc NUS This research aims to provide a solution of generating

road environments and drivers’ health and safety

high-resolution, spatially-continuous canopy height

through two main questions: (1) Whether and what environmental characteristics significantly affect

Supervisors :

maps in Hong Kong, a high-rise high-dense urban

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mental status, physiological status, and driving

JIANG Bin (Principal supervisor)

context. It employs High Resolution Network (HRNet)

CHEN Bin

performance. (2) What environmental characteristics

WEBSTER Christopher John (Co-supervisor)

deep learning architecture to train a canopy height

JIANG Bin

of the roadside landscape can achieve satisfactory

estimation model, utilizing high-resolution satellite

LIN Chen

and optimal balance among these benefits?

images and ground truth LiDAR measurements.

Income, Real Estate and Landscape Disparity: A Vicious Cycle of Immobilized Society

The Creative City? Industrial Reuse for Arts Development in Hong Kong

YANG Yuwen MLA, University of Georgia Biased land use planning and unequal allocation of

ZENG Wenxin This PhD dissertation aims to use arts development as a lens

MSc(Urban Design), HKU

to unpack the economic and social transformation process

public resources have caused environmental injustice

in Hong Kong. It will explore how this creative city concept

in high-density cities. This study aims to examine

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has been adapted under Hong Kong’s unique historical

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the associations among human-centric perspective

JIANG Bin

context; how the material aspects of arts space tie together

CHU Cecilia Louise

environmental exposures, income, and real estate factors

XU Frank

with the mental and social aspects of spatial production

ZHOU Ying

at TPU level in an Asian high-density city, Hong Kong, using

through time; and how the adaptive re-use of old industrial

semantic segmentation and deep learning algorithms.

buildings is related to the discourse of conservation.

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Staff List

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教師名單

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Full-time Staff

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Title

Name

Qualifications / Affiliations

Head of Division Associate Professor of Practice

VALIN Ivan

BSc(ARCH) Virginia; MLA + MArch UC Berkeley

Associate Professor (Teaching)

PRYOR Mathew

Program Director MSc(Cons) Associate Professor

Part-time Staff

Title

Name

Qualifications / Affiliations

Adjunct Professors

CHAN Edwin H.W.

BArch, MArch Sheffield; LLB(Hons), PhD UoL

BA(Hons) Heriot-Watt; CMLI; RLA; FHKILA; CA

KATZSCHNER Lutz

Meteorology Bonn; Promotion Kassel; Habilitation Kassel

CHU Cecilia

B.A (A.S.), B Arch (Dist), HKU; S.M.Arch.S., MIT; RIBA; FHKIA; HKIUD; Assoc AIA; RA (HK, PRC)

LAM Kin Che

BA, MPhil HKU; PhD UNE

Associate Professor

JIANG Bin

BEngUP Hunan; MSLA Peking; PhD Illinois; CELA

PITTS Adrian

BSc Tech Sheffield; PhD Sheffield

Program Director MSc(SED) Associate Professor

REN Chao

BArch; PhD; BEAM Pro

AU Benny P.N.

BSc (Hons) Imperial; MSc(Eng)(BSE), MSc (EnvMan) HKU

Assistant Professors

CHEN Bin

BSc WHU; PhD BNU

GIAM Ei-kie

BEnvDes BArch (Hons) LEED AP

KELLY Ashley Scott

BScArch Michigan; MArch Harvard

JUNG David

BALA UC Berkeley; MLA Harvard

LU Xiaoxuan

BArch SCI-Arc; MLA Harvard; PhD Peking

KEHRER Jutta

MArch, ARB, HKIBIM

Senior Lecturer

COATES Gavin

BLA DipLA Leeds; DipPCDI; CMLI(UK); MCSD(UK); FHKILA; RLA; CA; FHEA

LEUNG Chi Fung

BEng (Hons) HKU; MSc Poly

Program Director (PDLA / MLA) Senior Lecturer

ECHEVERRI Natalia

BA Washington; MCP, MArch UC Berkeley

LEUNG Kam Shing

BA(AS) HKU; MCP, MEng UC Berkeley; PhD Cambridge; EMBA CUHK

Program Director BA(LS) Senior Lecturer

MAK Vincci

BArch USC; MLA Harvard; SFHEA

Leung Man Kit

BArch (HKU); MPhil Cambridge

Senior Lecturer

TRUMPF Susanne

BArch TU Berlin; MArch TU Delft; FHEA

BEDIR Merve

BArch METU; PhD TU Delft;

Lecturers

CEVALLOS BARRAGAN, Francisco

MScArch Spain; MLA HK

BRENNAN Bernard

BArch DIT; PgDip ARB UCL

ETTEL Nikolas

BArch AkBild; ir.Arch MA(AH) Bartlett, UCL; FHEA Dr.techn. Candidate AkBildd

CHEN chen

BArch, MArch Tsinghua; MA AA London; MLA Harvard

SHETABI, Linda

BA UCLA; MSc(Con) HKU; PhD UofGlasgow

CHUA Mark Hansley

BSc, MSc, PhD HKU

Assistant Lecturer

FAN Phoebe Man Si

BA(AS); MArch HKU

CHUI Jack S.K.

BEng SYSU; MSc CUHK

Teaching Assistants

LAW Pak Lun

MLA HKU

DELPHON Andres Delphon

MArch, MEd(PGCE) Spain; RIBA

Nwe Saw Yu

BA(LS) HKU

HAU Billy C.H.

BSc, MSc, PhD HKU

WONG Caraccioli Brandon

MLA HKU

HILGEFORT Jason

BUP UC; MArch UBC; PHD candidate RMIT; AICP

WONG Hoi Lam

BA(LS) HKU

JAN Brian

BSc(Arch) UVA; MArch, MAUD Harvard

YEUNG Hei

MLA HKU

KOKORA Michael

BA Minnesota; MArch Yale

SZETO Chloe

BA(LS) HK

NG Sylvia

BSLA Penn State; MLA UC Berkeley; AA Dipl

Adjunct Associate Professors

Adjunct Assistant Professors

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Part-time Staff

Title

Name

Qualifications / Affiliations

Adjunct Assistant Professors

PHILLIPS Steve

BA(Hons), IntArch, MA DipArch RIBA, HKICON

ROBINSON James Ian

MI Hort; HND

SALADINO Nicola

BArch Spain; MA AA London

SHINJI Wataru

BA(Arch) UC Berkeley

WILSON Barry

BA(Hons) Edinburgh; FHKIUD; FHKILA; HKRLA; CMLI.

WU Roger T.S.

BArch Bath

ZHANG Lily

BA(Arch), BA(Hons) UC Berkeley; MArch Princeton

Honorary Professor

WONG Kelvin S.K.

BA(AS)(HKU); BArch(HKU); MASA(UBC); HKIA; RA(HK); AP(HK)

Lecturers

CHAN Howe

MLA HKU

CHAN Jeremy Y.L.

TAN Ian

Assistant Lecturer

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BASc(Hons), BES(Hons) Waterloo; MLA UBC; PhD HKU; ASLA; HKILA; RLA (HK) BArch NUS; PDD Building Cons (Dist), MSc (Dist), MA UK; IHBC, ICOMOS (ICTC & ISCARSAH), ICOM (CAMOC)

Wang, Ting

BA(Hons) XJTLU; MLA, PhD HKU

Xiao, Pat H.

BEng HUST; MLA HK

NG Debra-Jean

BBA South Australia; MSc HKU

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