Project House at Sham Shui Po
壹屋計劃 深水埗
Type: Community Engagement
Location: Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Client: Private
Year: 2017
Sham Shui Po was a former glorious heart of the city, where the old handcrafters and light industries were based at. With the relatively lower income demographics and deteriorating building conditions, this older part of the city neighbourhood has been in a downward spiral. Small businesses start to vacate the streets, existing community starts to disintegrate, the neighbourhood needs injecting new life into the derelict spaces. Meanwhile, there are many social welfare and community organisations in the district servicing the local communities in various ways – elderly and child-care, educational services and so on. All of them are currently running at their full capacities with various programme and services. Due to spatial limitation of their existing centres, they do not have sufficient spaces for future developments of their services, which is crucial in addressing the needs of Sham Shui Po community. Hence the creation of Project House – a matching programme for linking up temporary vacant spaces in Sham Shui Po with the local groups in need. Can we put the demand and supply together to create a win-win situation? With simple design elements, it facilitates a temporary transformation of space in order to adapt to the use of the community organisation. More than 1,500 people have visited Project House, and the event has been widely reported by various mainstream medias including HK01, Cable News and RTHK.
