Wall-Fill Island Project
WALL-FILL Island Project is a wall archiving selected waste materials in Cheung Chau, an outlaying island of Hong Kong. It is an educational response to the landfill waste treatment. It aims to develop design-built educational programs in collaboration with the nature conservation organisation Living Grass. Its objective is to raise public awareness regarding waste reduction through a series of workshops, branded as Archi-parties. During December 2025 to February 2026, the project team Local Practice, an architecture research unit based in HKU Department of Architecture, will host two winter Archi-parties to build full-scale wall-fill prototypes on site. And develop the design vision with 50 participants to transform ten different types of waste into a 20-metre-long wall structure at nature conservation sites in Cheung Chau. This initiative seeks to engage the community in sustainable practices while enhancing local environment.
WALL-FILL Island Project is a wall archiving selected waste materials in Cheung Chau, an outlaying island of Hong Kong. It is an educational response to the landfill waste treatment. It aims to develop design-built educational programs in collaboration with the nature conservation organisation Living Grass. Its objective is to raise public awareness regarding waste reduction through a series of workshops, branded as Archi-parties. During December 2025 to February 2026, the project team Local Practice, an architecture research unit based in HKU Department of Architecture, will host two winter Archi-parties to build full-scale wall-fill prototypes on site. And develop the design vision with 50 participants to transform ten different types of waste into a 20-metre-long wall structure at nature conservation sites in Cheung Chau. This initiative seeks to engage the community in sustainable practices while enhancing local environment.
- 2025
- Grantee: Kuo Jze Yi
Kuo Jze Yi is an architect, currently an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Programme Director (MScAAD) at the Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on Local Architecture Practice, exploring collective building process with communities in rural China. Since 2017, Kuo has been collaborating with Zhoushan Community Architecture Team, comprising ten local craftsmen in Zhoushan Village, to enhance communal infrastructure through participatory design and construction. Together, they have identified over 100 types of indigenous materials and harnessed these local resources to construct the Educational Base (5,000 m2), the Workshop Base (10,000 m2), and to upgrade household toilet facilities. The team is currently building the Garden of Community Stories (6,000 m2) to archive and exhibit community development experience of Zhoushan. Kuo’s research unit, Local Practice, is embedded in Zhoushan Village, where they live and work year-round, developing methodologies for local architecture and bottom-up rural development.
- Organisation: Local Practice
Local Practice is an architecture research unit exploring methodologies for local architecture and bottom-up rural development. Local Practice is based in the Rural Building Research Base (www.zhoushanarchitecture.com) in Zhoushan Village Henan Province, conducting research, design, construction and knowledge dissemination. Currently implementing building projects in Henan, Sichuan, Hong Kong and Rural Regions in Bangladesh. Local Practice is set up by Kuo Jze Yi and his research team within the Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. The key research team members are Chen L, Cheng WC, Rahman F, Khan SN, Subha NN and Zhang ZQ.