Page 47 - Building Journal - June 2015

HKIA AnnuAl AwArds 2014

Design Concept
the project, situated in sha tin, is the
first Community Green stations out of 18
venues based on different districts developed
by environmental Protection department
to implement the reduction first waste
management strategy. the station will support
recycling efforts at the community level,
including reaching out to the community
for the collection of recyclables, supporting
the Community recycling network and
conducting other measures to promote the
separation of waste at source. in addition,
the station will also hold exhibition and
educational programmes to advocate the
importance of recycling.
the scope of the project includes education
centre, work area for handling collected
recyclables , office, ancillary facilities and
landscape area.

Jury Report
this apparently modest project for a
community - based recycling station, although
originating from a very pragmatic programme
of technical requirements, achieves a brilliant
architectural result that is aesthetically elegant,
highly refined in its detailing and well resolved
in terms of the functions it is called upon to
perform. this serene, meditative and poetic
building is designed with a great lightness
of touch, using extremely slender structural
members and a very limited range of materials,
with a zen simplicity and design mastery akin
to that of Japanese architecture. A little jewel
of a building and pocket size urban landscape,
fulfilling a highly meaningful environmental
and social agenda.

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