Brief
The project involves the improvement work to the Sai Kung Public Pier.

Design Concept
Sai Kung, the back garden of Hong Kong, endowed with splendid islands, is designated as one of the tourist spots for beautification. The project aims to give a new face to the simple concrete structure of the Sai Kung Public Pier which was already over-congested during weekends, and to turn the pier into an extended promenade onto the sea. Simplicity, clarity, contemporary, harmony, casual and joy are the keynotes. With a limited budget, a tight programme, and the limited structural capacity of the existing concrete structure, the solution is to use a series of steel portal frames semi-covered with glass and aluminum angles for shelter from rain and sunlight, and recycled plastic strips to fill between the portal frames to give a widened catwalk. Vivid signage, introducing in Chinese, English, and Japanese the thirteen islands and associated attractions are inserted among the rhythmically spaced aluminum angles to form a piano keyboard to dance with light and color. Restricted use of materials to steel members, aluminum angles, glass and recycled plastic strips, as well as of building elements to lines and planes returns the priority to nature.