Based in San Tin, a marshland district near the Hong Kong–Shenzhen border, the studio examines how growth can occur in a sensitive landscape. Students will work with a complex context: fishponds, woodlands, infrastructure, and preserved villages, and balance ecological care with social and economic needs. The semester opens with concise site research on ground conditions, daily life, density, preservation, and environmental impact. The design agenda—The First and the Last Plan— interrogates architecture’s relationship to ground and horizon. Students will test strategies that negotiate disturbance while creating new occupiable horizontal surfaces: floating decks, stilts, cantilevers, hung systems, or core-suspended structures. Roofs and underbellies are treated as active interfaces, how the underside meets earth, how the roof frames sky, while thresholds, material transitions, and circulation become key instruments of design. Temporal layering is central: how can additions be integrated over time, allowing buildings to be built, unbuilt, and rebuilt with respect for existing ecologies— sometimes acting parasitically to amplify, rather than rase, what is already there? Ultimately, each project will propose an environmentally attuned, context-specific, and forward-looking architecture.