PrayaEdge

Often treated with disregard and littered with all sorts of waste, oceans in fact stabilise the climate and are a guardian for biodiversity. It is time more was done to protect the precious waters for our ecosystem.

Taking the opportunity of the redevelopment of a popular promenade, PrayaEdge brings back a public space by the water edge while empowered with a mission to educate the public the possibility of change for the good of the environment.

PrayaEdge is a next generation landscape design, combining a public space, a library and an exhibition venue under an environmental theme for the neighbourhood of Kennedy Town and beyond.

Visitors to PrayaEdge can enjoy the public spaces and see exhibitions as they normally would (but their experience is off kilter and with sarcasm) – visitors can stroll at the water edge (but alongside rubbish), or appreciate installations (but glorified with waste materials). The defamiliarisation is designed as a wake-up call to the urgency of saving our planet, and the tour through the tidal energy turbines and within the desalination system which both sustain the compound provides a glimpse of the possible environmentally responsible solutions.

Kennedy Town is one of the few locales in Hong Kong that still retains the use of “praya” in denoting waterfronts of yesteryears and now. The use of “Praya” in the name is a contextual response connecting the hearts of the locals and beyond, and that our centre can be the “Edge” of change.