With the industrial readjustment, most of Hong Kong’s city ports were abandoned and facing functional repositioning. The site is located at Sai Wan pier, an industrial area occupied by a wholesale market and cargo ports suffering from vacancy problem. Meanwhile, the University of Hong Kong, located on the hillside in this area, is short of development space. As both of them are separated from the city, there is potential of renovating the existing wholesale market into a new campus on the harbourfront to establish close relationships between harbour, university, and city.

The project proposes a satellite campus that provides a collaborative base for students, companies, and citizens by combining education, research, commerce, and residence. Through the adaptive reuse of the existing buildings, its industrial context is continued and new learning, working and living spaces can be provided for the public.