Architecture Student Received Award in Design Competition "Winner of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA) Sustainable Architecture Student Award 2008"

Mr Kang Young Seok Khan, a year 3 student of the Chu Hai Architecture Deparment (an exchange student from Korea's Dankook University) received an award from Hong Kong Insititue of Architects (HKIA) design compeition titled "Sustainable Architecture Student Award 2008". Mr Kang received a travel scholarship to attend the HKIA Green Tour 2008 and the Sustainable Building 2008 World Conference in Melbourne, Australia.

POROSITY

This project proposes a high-rise Youth Hostel in Yau Ma Tei applying the concept of "porosity". Firstly, the limitation of indoor space and the maximization of outdoor space are considered. While the corridors and spiral Green Pores gardens minimize the air-conditioning used inside the building, it also creates air pores to the streets. These Green pores gardens opening to the public can also allow people to escape from the hot and polluted streets of the district. Secondly, the double-porous-skin system with flexible louver tiles (horizontally folded on the south/north sides and vertically on the east/west sides) can cool down the surface and the indoor space of the building. Thirdly, people can communicate with the building through pores. Pores can be a path, a Book-Cafe and their green connections.