Please do not book - Kuk Po Common Guided Tour

[The Kuk Po Tour will be rescheduled to later this year, please do not book]

Located beneath the mountains facing the Kuk Po wetland along the coast of the Sha Tau Kok Sea, Kai Choi School and its annex block are ready to be re-opened for their new use.

After three years of research, design and construction, the annex block has been transformed into Kuk Po Common, a community public space that integrates architectural conservation and design with culture, art, community, landscape and ecology.

At the start of the visit, Professor Wang Weijen will share with us the process of revitalizing and renovating the Kai Choi School and its annex block, both of which were built in 1963 and have been abandoned since 1993. The talk will be followed by a tour around Kuk Po, learning how the renovation respects the cultural importance of the site while integrating new design elements that have transformed the space into a common facility that can be enjoyed by the public. You will see how this project also serves the community as a collective memorial to the original inhabitants of Kuk Po.

This tour is jointly organized by AIA Hong Kong and The Lighthouse Club.

Details

Tour Rundown 

09:00 – 10:00	Central or Admiralty Pickup and Transport to Luk Keng
10:00 – 10:30	Short Hike/Walk to Kuk Po
10:30 – 12:30	Introduction to the design, research and conservation of the Kuk Po project and Tour of Kuk Po Common and Kai Choi
12:30 – 13:30	Hakka Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Hike back to Luk Keng
14:00 – 15:00	Coach back to Central or Admiralty

To join us, please sign up HERE on or before June 21, 2024, at 4:00 PM.

Notes

Professor Wang Weijen, FHKIA, HKIUD, AIA, Director of Wang Weijen Architecture

Wang Weijen was an associate at TAC San Francisco before he joined the University of Hong Kong in 1994, where he served as the Head of Department from 2012 to 2016. He was the 2023 Howard Freeman Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley and has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, MIT and the National Jiaotong University, Taiwan. Weijen is the Editorial Director of HKIA Journal OCCUPY, was the Curator of the 2007 Hong Kong Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and Chief-Curator for the Hong Kong Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale,

He received his BS from the National Taiwan University and both his MS and MArch from UC Berkeley, Weijen is currently the Andrew KF Lee Professor in Architectural Design and Director of the Center for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, at the University of Hong Kong.