HKIP x SIP Webinar Series #3: Innovating the Next-generation Transitional Housing through Civic Design and Community Empowerment

In defiance of the time frame for identifying land for meeting the housing supply target, transitional housing is being introduced as a form of interim accommodation to help the vulnerable households gradual transition into long-term housing in Hong Kong. Young Planners Group of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners organized the “Planning and Design Competition on Transitional Housing in Hong Kong” early this year, with a view to inviting innovative ideas from the young professionals from the built environment sector.

In this webinar, the team awarded First Prize will share their people-oriented and context-aware housing design model, the “HyggeHomes”, to be located in a sizeable piece of land planned yet undeveloped for open space in the neighbourhood of Hung Hom, Hong Kong, where hosts one of the largest residential cluster intertwined with an array of community and government functions in place. With a prime goal in community empowerment, innovative tenant selection methods and housing operation model are adopted through the exploration of alternative roles within the stakeholders involved to embrace the “Hygge Living” concept of cosiness and comfortability that engenders well-being and contentment, as espoused by the team.

Speakers

Anna KWONG – Architecture Student

MA Architecture The University of Melbourne

Tiffany YEUNG – Graduate Planner at Public Sector

MSc Urban Planning The University of Hong Kong

Charissa LEUNG – Graduate Planner at Public Sector

MSc Urban Planning The University of Hong Kong

Sharon KAN – Graduate Planner at Public Sector

MSc Urban Planning The University of Hong Kong