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Snøhetta unveils “green lung” urban farm in Hong Kong

The second building, Farm House, is a communal kitchen and dining space where Pavilia Farm residents can gather to share the produce grown on the urban farm at the centre of the development, including rice, apples and aloe.

By Amy Peacock
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Jan 9, 2023

Excerpt:

Architecture studio Snøhetta has designed an urban farm surrounded by three clubhouses for the Pavilia Farm residential development in Tai Wai, Hong Kong.

Informed by the mountainous surroundings and the nearby Shing Mun River, Snøhetta designed the project to be a calm and serene sanctuary that would provide a close link to nature in the bustling city.

“With this project, the Tea House and the Farm House create a green lung in the middle of pulsating Hong Kong – a space where all the residents can find peace and calm, but also interact and connect with each other”, partner and managing director of Snøhetta Asia Robert Greenwood said.

“Pavilia Farm is a project that highlights the importance of creating new green urban neighbourhoods,” Greenwood continued.

“More people live in cities than ever before, and that trend is likely to continue to increase in the future, so we need to build in a way that can make it sustainable, both environmentally and socially.”

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