Located in the fascinating countryside of sai kung, the centre connects visitors to the hoi ha wan marine park to explore a scenic sea area with diverse marine lives in hong kong.

This is the first visitor centre for marine park in Hong Kong. The idea of the Centre is to create a rural settlement of an old traditional village with individual buildings that are organically related to the surrounding landscape. It serves to introduce the Marine Park to visitors before they proceed to the waterfront via the trail.

It embraces lawns with trees for gathering of visitors, serving as ideal places for leisure before reaching the waterfront. It aims to provide visitors with a plateau for outdoor gathering and a place of mediation between architecture and nature. The multi-purpose room, designed as a glass pavilion facing the heart of the village, related directly to the lawn as a form of continuity between inside and outside. This small-town like atmosphere with different varieties of veranda and small courtyard spaces, closely knitted together to form a comprehensive character of a locus that reinterprets the idea of old traditional village in a new manner.

Situated in the country park, the project ties together sustainable measures to reduce impact to the nature, while demonstrate to visitors on the related building technologies. Solar panels and photovoltaic bollards are installed to compensate electricity consumption. Rainwater is collected for recycling use through collection system and all wastewater generated in the centre is treated in-situ through a biological way.