A safe and fruitful hub and corridor

The design of the community-led hub attracts the surrounding communities while blending in with the existing communities, for example, students, studios, and children. Creating a great connection of public spaces in and around the site, with the visual and sensory guide of green infrastructure and spaces, the users are guided to enjoy various public spaces in the site with various retail facilities. The street facilities in the public spaces allow users to stay and be flexible at the same time. The regeneration of warehouses into food markets and indoor retail corridors and studios creates indoor recreation space in the area which becomes the point of attraction. Other points of attraction, for example, college, offices and studios, and residential units attract a wide variety of users including the surrounding community.

A community-led hub with a great functional mix provides diverse experiences, flexibility and opportunities. Meanwhile, the design is hoping to minimize the segregation of the site by creating a safe and attractive corridor for different users. Most of the streets are active retail frontages providing ‘eyes on the street’ throughout the day. Instead of installing more surveillance facilities, creating 'eyes on the street' is a more organic way in enhancing safety in the site, especially nearby the primary school and residential units area. A great mix of functions along the public spaces is to ensure the population density throughout the day and night. The journey in the area should be safe and active. Pedestrians can see what is happening in different interfaces.

Street lights provide vision at night for pedestrians to see what is happening in the surroundings and feel safe to use the space, thus becoming more active and safe as a cycle. With suitable street furniture and greenery, it is hoped to activate the public space and frontage and provide more space for staying in the area. The design and quality of the pedestrianized area become a key to attracting users as it links and bridges the gap between public spaces and communities. Streets are mostly pedestrianized with cycle lanes. This is to ensure users have enough space to interact with the frontage and at the same time without losing the function of travelling smoothly. The rain gardens and greenery in the middle is to provide visual guidance, leading users to go through the road and to other public spaces and facilities, for example, the hub and the food market. The design will attract different communities and users to enjoy staying, playing, relaxing, working, living and studying while feeling safe to travel through.

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