Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. It?s not rare to see an aged building next to a new building. And some of the buildings are getting aged, but it doesn?t mean those buildings need to be demolished and rebuilt. Because they are bound to the society and the culture already. If we demolish those aged buildings, we?re not physically destroying the building only, we?re also destroying the culture of the city. In this situation, maybe renovation of buildings is a good option. Renew those aged buildings and extending their life just like extending the diary of the culture for our children. Just like the strategy 14 in the 36 Strategies of the Chinese, “ Raise a Corpse from the Dead”, Take an institution, a technology, a method, or even an ideology that has been forgotten or discarded and appropriate it for your own purpose. Revive something from the past by giving it a new purpose or bring to life old ideas, customs, or traditions and reinterpret them to fit your purposes.

香港是世界上人口最稠密的地方之一，很容易就看到新舊建築並排而立的情景。而一些建築隨著歲月變得古舊，但這並不意味著這些舊建築需要完全拆卸，因為他們或許已經成為我們文化的一部分。因此，如果我們拆除這些舊建築，我們破壞的不只是建築物而已，我們也破壞了城市的文化。在這種情況下，也許翻新這些舊建築是一個不錯的選擇。翻新舊建築以延長他們的壽命，就像為我們的孩子伸延文化的日記。正正就好像孫子兵法三十六計中的第十四計借屍還魂，「有用者，不可借；不能用者，求借。借不能用者而用之，匪我求童蒙，童蒙求我。」