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9floor Co-living
9Floor Co-Living, a co-living project/start up, is running the biggest co-living apartment in Taipei; 2 public house projects with Xinbei City government. To solve our own problem of living in Taipei, my friends and I created a co-living community in this modern city. By community design and tech-management, we remodel and make the apartments with […]
Descamps.Technology Limited
Descamps.Technology Limited is a Hong Kong-based artificial intelligence (“A.I.”) company, specializing in research, design, development, production and implementation of proprietary smart sensors and ambient intelligence solutions to improve daily lives at home and in business environments. The elderly face difficulties in daily life, especially those living on their own. With sharp growth in aging population, […]
Hong Kong Green Building Council
The Hong Kong Green Building Council Limited (HKGBC) is a non-profit, member led organisation established in 2009 with the vision to help save the planet and improve the wellbeing of the people of Hong Kong by transforming the city into a greener built environment. HKGBC is a key driver in setting the standard for local […]
Hong Kong Housing Society
Founded in 1948, Hong Kong Housing Society is the first non-government housing organisation in Hong Kong. For over 70 years, the Housing Society has been providing affordable housing and related services to meet the needs of the community with a social mission. As Hong Kong’s “housing laboratory”, the Housing Society started the planning of elderly […]
People’s Architecture Office
Like Hong Kong, many urban areas in the mainland face the problem of ageing buildings. Examples are Beijing’s historic districts, where old courtyard houses need to be preserved, and Shenzhen’s urban villages, where houses are dilapidated. To tackle the problem of ageing buildings, People’s Architecture Office, the first B Corp certified architectural design agency in […]
Relocatable Housing by Modular Integrated Construction (MiC)
The rising demand of Transitional Social Housing has become the “third sector housing” in Hong Kong, strategically situated in the gap between the dominant public rental housing and private/ownership-based residences (nearly half-half). Due to repetitive and relocatable requirements, modular integrated construction (MiC) is used predominately to deliver housing in a speedy and systematic manner. To […]
Transitional Social Housing
Transitional Social Housing (TSH) is an innovative housing type that broke the traditional dichotomy of private and public housing. The architectural design process of TSH is naturally different from typical housing design. JCDISI’s first three SoInno Action Projects encourage stakeholders from different sectors and disciplines to re-imagine the utilisation of idle land resources as TSH. […]
Urban Renewal Authority
The URA was established in May 2001 under the Urban Renewal Authority Ordinance as the statutory body to undertake, encourage, promote and facilitate urban renewal of Hong Kong. The URA tackles the problem of urban decay by implementing the 5Rs, known as Redevelopment, Rehabilitation, pReservation, Revitalisation and Retrofitting, for creating a sustainable and quality living […]