The design of tomorrow’s institute should be “Thinking Out of the Box” and “Reaching out to the Community”.  Based on these concepts, the proposed project would manifest the idea of whole person education and would give Hong Kong Baptist University a new identity in the new era.

Stepping into the new era of tertiary education, the mode of teaching would no longer be confined in box-shaped classrooms.  To connect with the ever-changing society, transformation of learning mode is essential. 

The “Thinking Out of the Box” concept is similar to the methodology by pulling out drawers from a cabinet, an analogy to computer servers in racks. The action of sliding building components in both the horizontal & vertical dimensions results in functional spaces protruding out from the rectangular box. This transformation has created external flat roof gardens and consequently sliding out of open slots on the building facade to enhance the visual permeability and natural ventilation of the building.  Opening up roof gardens and carving out internal voids would create extra communal spaces that encourage human interaction.  Multi-storey voids create interactive communal spaces and double-storey internal corridor allowed visual connection from one level to another.