Tsuen Fook Kui · Architecture

Tsuen Fook Kui sits at 3 Luen Yan Street, Tsuen Wan — formerly a 1970s municipal cooked-food centre. The reinforced-concrete building originally housed dozens of cooked-food stalls; as neighbourhood dining habits shifted, much of the structure sat vacant.\n\nIn 2022, the Housing Bureau selected the site for FFG to convert into transitional housing. The design team\'s challenge: transform an open-plan, grease-laden food hall into homes meeting modern residential codes — a textbook case of adaptive reuse.\n\nThe guiding principle was "leave nothing to waste": the primary structure (columns, beams, floor slabs) was preserved in full, interior layouts re-planned into 196 self-contained units, exterior walls refinished but the original silhouette retained, and the former exhaust infrastructure repurposed for unit ventilation. The whole conversion took about 13 months — roughly half the time and a fraction of the materials of a demolish-and-rebuild approach.