Cha Kwo Ling 2066 - Research

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H A B I T A T

I died long ago. My relatives do not want to come back to live in Cha Kwo Ling. My house is falling apart. The roof collapsed. It is raining inside the house.

Daylight is coming inside the house. A big tree has grown as if my house was a big flower pot. The villagers built some plastic structure to guide the growth of the tree. The tree grows from my private space into the public space, providing coverage for the passers-by. I am happy that a tree is growing inside my home.

Life continues.

Cha Kwo Ling is mostly abandoned now. A lot of vegetation is growing on abandoned houses. The green has covered most of the waste material. It’s pretty. A lot of tourists come visit our village as “authentic Hong Kong�, they even go in narrow streets and take pictures. I wish I was there to tell them our stories. Maybe they can imagine.

Cha Kwo Ling

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C O N T E N T

BRAINSTORM sketches DISCUSSION possibilities PROTOPYPE simulation

B R A I N S T O R M | sketches

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Activities in the Cha Kwo Ling village

Some squat houses in Cha Kwo Ling became vacant after villagers decided to move out

Trees are going to be planted inside vacant houses

Plastic bottles are collected on site and cut into above shape

The cut bottles are combined together to become the joints

Insert and glue the plastic bottle caps into PVC pipes

Connect the pipes to the joint to form a lattice structure

The lattice structure is created and acts as a framework to guide the grwoth of the tree

D I S C U S S I O N | possibilities

P R O T O T Y P E | simulation

C R E D I T S

Mentor Cesar Jung-Harada Susanne Trumpf George Hoehne Documentation XinYi Zhang William Wong House 2016 Song Jia Rui Hao Jia Li Dai House 2026 David Tam Bobo Ngai Orlando Chan Pearl Cao Janet Choi Wen Nian House 2066 Venus Ng TingTing Ng Timothy Lam Ivan Chan Desmond Chang