Hong Kong today, despite being a world leader in innovation and progress- is achieving its successes often at the sacrifice of cultural heritage and the well-being of the less fortunate. This project examines the loss of Hong Kong’s coastal fishing communities through an investigation of how land reclamation, privatisation and commercialisation have displaced boat-dwelling fishermen communities, disrupted marine ecosystems, and erased a once self-sufficient water-based way of life. This project proposes a new housing typology inspired by traditional houseboats, recontextualized to meet modern needs, rejecting resettlement as a protest of spatial injustice.
