The site for this project is a wedge shaped natural slope, adjacent to the south-eastern boundary is the To Shek Service Reservoir with views toward some of Kowloon’s natural landforms such as Temple Hill, Tate’s Cain, and Ngau Au Shan. The north western side presents a commanding and panoramic views to the Shatin Town Centre with the glimpse of Shing Mun River with distant mountainous ranges. It is a site located in nature that engulfed by green lush landscape in a big park, naturally this has informed a plethora of architectural opportunities that embrace nature.

The access road with its ascending approach to the site is a ceremonial and processional route to and from the site. With the site’s unique landscape feature, the initial architectural response to the project was in the realm of nature. The landscape topography and the lushness in its immediate proximity suggests the notion of green outdoor and wellness attributes in the design proposal. Blending the boundary with its context is an opportunity to create a visually appealing and aesthetically sophisticated plinth as a base for the residential towers above.

The plinth not only acts as a base and also a new landscape complimenting the unique landscape topography with lots of curves, a sensuous expression of nature and the existing topography. The plinth is a podium that houses all luxurious amenities, including the clubhouse, an indoor pool, gym and children facilities. The arrival and drop-offs are placed at the base of the plinth greeted residents with an elegant sense of arrival. Vertical circulations is placed at strategic location piercing through the podium bringing residents though various amenities and multiple levels of interconnected gardens to the top of the podium before arriving at each tower’s individual lobbies. The architectural feature of glass elements in the podium is intended to frame and capture the changing light condition of the exterior and reflect into the interior space like picture frames with paintings of nature.

The towers disposition is designed to capture the vast and open panoramic view to the north-western aspect, catching a glimpse of Shing Mun River and Shatin Town Centre with distant mountainous views as a backdrop. This arrangement not only created an extroversion aspect to the north-western views but also introversion aspect to the south-eastern side with the secluded landscape and outdoor pool horseshoed and embraced by these towers. South-eastern aspect is equally pleasant with an infinite view of lushness green. The open green field of the reservoir as an immediate neighbour is visually pleasing from the towers, while the rest are shades of visually relaxing palettes of greens and glimpse of Tate’s Cain, Temple Hill and Ngau Au Shan.

The project comprises 6 residential towers with all clubhouse amenities in the podium levels, basement car parking spaces and all ancillary services with a total gross floor area of 40,000 square meters.

Residential

40,320 Sqm

To Shek, N.T., Hong Kong

Completed 2022