位于谷埔村红树林湿地后方老围的宋家宅院，是香港沙头角地区传统的客家民居建筑。由于年久失修屋瓦崩塌，宅院里依附老牆生长的参天大树和建筑的断垣残壁，结合成为独特的空间形式。香港大学建筑系团队在乡郊基金的支助下，开启了一种「废墟花园」的保育设计探索。这不仅是建筑的遗产保育与村民的生活记忆，更是一种超越现实的文化想像与再生。老围废墟花园的保育设计，见证物质文化取之自然回归自然的过程，揭示了建筑牆体材质肌理与风雨自然的对话。

Located behind the mangrove wetlands of Kuk Po Village, the Sung family residence is a traditional Hakka dwelling of the Sha Tau Kok region. The Centre for Chinese Architecture and Urbanism team of the University of Hong Kong began an exploration into conserving the site as a Ruins Garden.

The Ruin Garden of Kuk Po Lo Wai is both a site of architectural heritage and a repository of villagers’ living memories. It is a place where nature and materiality, humanity and art, converge into a cultural imagination.