Sau Mau Ping — Sau Mau Ping Map Poster & Print

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Sau Mau Ping Map Poster & Print

Sau Mau Ping sits on the hills above Kwun Tong in eastern Kowloon, and the terrain shapes almost everything on its map. There is no grid here. The roads switchback up the slopes and curve around the hillsides to reach clusters of residential towers built on terraced platforms. From above, the district looks like a series of stepped shelves cut into the hill, with open green slopes behind.

The area grew as a public housing district from the 1960s onward, and large estates still make up most of its footprint. Its steep ground also has a place in Hong Kong's history. Deadly landslides here and elsewhere in the city in the 1970s led to a dedicated slope-safety authority. The engineered slopes and retaining platforms that followed are still part of the landscape a map shows.

A Sau Mau Ping map poster shows this hillside geometry in clean black and white. The curves of the access roads, the compact footprints of the housing blocks and the empty spaces of the undeveloped slopes produce a looser, more organic pattern than the dense grid of the harbourfront below. The print carries the feel of a neighbourhood built into the mountain rather than laid over flat land.