The Hong Kong East Community Green Station is one of the first Community Green Stations in Hong Kong to implement the “reduction first” waste management strategy, as a pilot project for promoting green living and collection of recyclables at the community level. Instead of a traditional rubbish collection point, the Station is designed as a positive asset to the local area.

Completed in May 2015, the project site is transformed from an under-utilized carpark under a flyover into a public gathering place to bridge the old and new neighborhood within the existing dense residential area. The scope of the project includes education centre, work area for handling recyclables, office, ancillary facilities and landscape area.

The concept is to create a new Street through the site to connect the surrounding communities. Through the use of green wall, bamboo trellis and courtyard garden, it embodies a sense of community and a touch of oasis within the city.

The Station is divided into separate blocks along the Street that hold exhibitions and educational programmes, as well as recycling facilities that allows recyclable collections. Various sustainable initiatives are adopted here to put the green culture of “Use Less, Waste Less” into practice. We reused modular containers as the bases of our buildings yet modified to suit the need of different functions. The provision of large overhanging roof and vertical greening can shelter the interior from direct sunlight.

The Street, together with the garden embodies variety of gathering places, creates multiple layer of space from public to private, from open space, semi-open space to enclosed area, as an interpretation of pavilions in Chinese Garden.

Although the building is temporary, it embodies permanent cultural value, rediscovers our roots and finds parallel with prevailing green features.