Sammy Chow
Living-Ket, is a provision to provide a healthy lifestyle to society and surrounding users through a non-traditional local market system.
It is a one-year project that includes research study and building design that provide a market with vertical farming at Hing Fong Road, Kwai Fong in Hong Kong, originally a local playground with an approximate 8,840 sq.m. site area.
By sharing programs across other venues, the spaces can be mixed with each other and enrich the mixed-use diversity, such as outdoor walkways near greenery and eating zones near urban farmland. These outdoor activities can happen within a market. Through this idea, the design emerges as a new walkable market with green space and multi-functional areas without changing the existing site characters.
According to my other research on vertical farming, a factory was decided to include vegetable production by vertical farming technology to achieve a “Food-to-Table” concept. In the meantime, the façade is curved for better exposure to natural sunlight and combines green elements to neutralize pollution from the surrounding area by absorbing vehicular noxious gases to provide a “Regeneration Design” and “Living Building”.
Living-Ket re-introduced the open space of Kwai Fong to offer a new typology of the local sustainable market and urban landscape to the public.
Author: Sammy Chow.
Location: Kwai Fong, Hong Kong.
University: Chu Hai College Of Higher Education.
Year: 2021