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Duling Educational and Cultural Centre

Firm LocationHong Kong, Hong Kong
CompanyProject Mingde (The University of Hong Kong)
Lead ArchitectElisabeth Lee

This nonprofit project, undertaken by students and guided by professionals of The University of Hong Kong, leveraged the challenge of heavy rainfall transforming it into a crucial resource to alleviate the community's freshwater scarcity. Taking into consideration the site's environmental and cultural context, the building adopts a cascading form, culminating in a series of tiered roofs. These roofs channel rainwater into a collection lotus pond, and subsequently into an underground recycling system, from where clean water is eventually pumped up into the building for use.