[這是最好的時代。這是最壞的時代]
這項設計探討在土瓜灣十三街發展自主的地方經濟，多元文化及輕工業的可能性，亦同時改善居民的社區生活。此項目是為了提供宜居及社區工業生活，並重新培育家庭式經營和工藝發展，以抵抗地產霸權。

[速度，密度，多樣性和時間]

香港建築以其高速，高密及高效發展而聞名。可是，不可逆轉的高地租正蠶食空間創作和文化實踐的多樣性。當單調的建築變成商品時，它正在摧毀無價的家庭式工業及經驗(文化時間)。因此，土瓜灣十三街旨在通過共用工作空間，休憩及教育空間來產生空間多樣性，從而抗衡高地租所帶來的影響。

[還空間於民] 

過去，居民在這十三街之間經營小型工業而建立了強大的社區網絡。目前，政府釋放土瓜灣發展的高度限制，以鼓勵私人發展商用盡地積比去興建各種屏風樓，其投機炒賣使房產價格上漲，剝削基層的居住空間。

[共享空間，建立自主工作實驗平台]

部分十三街會因其社區關係而被保留；另外新的設計是工商住房合作社，亦是創意和輕工業的建築群，為基層帶來多樣化的工作機會，家庭企業及傳統文化發展。

[我現在要做的事，比我以前所做的事都美好得多。]

[It was the best of the times. It was the worst of the times.]

This project exanimates the possibility in developing self-driven local economies, with cultural diversity and light industry in To Kwa Wan 13 Streets, and improving community life for children and elderly. The project is to provide an alternative mode of living and business in against the notorious property hegemony, and to reintegrate a testing ground for nurturing family-sized industries and local craftsmanship.

[Speed, Density, Diversity and Time]

Hong Kong architecture is famous for its speed, the pace of living, together with its high density to generate the beauty of efficiency. Unfortunately, the irreversible high land rent is slowly killing the diversity of space and cultural practice in the future. When the monotonous architecture is turning into a commodity, it is destroying the unmeasurable and intangible value of family-oriented innovations and experience. So, this project aims at regenerating spatial diversity in co-working, recreation and institutional usages.

[A Place to share the knowledge]

In the past, local people worked in strong community bonding inside these 13 streets with operating small-scaled industries, in producing light bulbs and plastic products. At present, the release of height restriction encourages private developers to redevelop the site with various pencil towers and escalate rental price, making the flats highly unaffordable, thus creating unfairness to grassroots and underprivileged.

[The Return of Space for the people and by the people]

Can we generate a testing ground for local innovative and experiment new things, with other diversified jobs to diminish social isolation? Facing with this situation, they have nowhere to go except in this wonderland, the last spot to have their freedom of living. With its permeable building clusters with residential, creative and light industry, it brings back the cultural versatility for grassroots. At the same time, some alleys are preserved for communal relationship; the alternation achieves new programmatic approach for collective housing towers. It is the last spot for working and gathering, in extending their homes to accommodate growing families and business.

[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.]