These newly emerging pedagogies, and how they are being adapted and embraced by Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese students – presaging the seismic disruption of Covid-19 – were the primary drivers for our design. Our work therefore included facilitating Faculty & Student Workshops aimed at defining an aspirational student experience that aligns with the University’s global and regional teaching models.

The Campus occupies complex, irregularly-shaped floorplates spanning three floors of the podium of a commercial development that had not yet been constructed. Our scheme establishes a Main Street central artery within an artificial-skylighted void that anchors campus life and generates an intuitive wayfinding and navigation spine from which informal learning, social activities and multipurpose spaces branch.

Flanked by two rail lines, our project is inextricably intertwined with the structure & systems of the commercial development, and so our close coordination with the building’s owners and shell-&core architects was essential to success. This project is currently under construction.