Reclamation and infrastructural development disintegrates the originally intimate relationship between land and sea, people and nature. But how can we reconcile our desire for urbanization and love to natural landscape? Can we make the most out of this opportunity to investigate a new way of urban planning that positions Hong Kong as a place unique from other world-class cities? The proposal intends to restore the originally hard-edged city waterfront into a permeable coastal urban and wetland development, which smoothly integrates aquatic habitat with infrastructure and buildings. Hong Kong has a wide range of native vegetation and about 20 different species of mangrove. A ‘carpet’ strategy that holds lush vegetation above and partly submerges into the harbor is introduced. Along the coastline, the carpet becomes a series of lagoon and sheltered embayment and forms an ecological system that constructively helps cleaning the water for Victoria Harbor. Along the urban edge, the green carpet stretches into the city, and plugs into the existing footbridge system on upper levels, allowing a smooth access from the city to shoreline. This is an attempt to challenge the traditional notion of urban planning. Instead of simply dividing a land into the usage of building, infrastructure, open space, landscape, the proposal encourages merging and mixing of these elements and stimulates direct interaction between them. Natural landscape, which is always neglected in urban development and regarded as a patch of “artificial” green in the concrete jungle, is reintroduced as a vital living system embracing the greatest amount and variety of plants and animals as well as urban activates in it. With mesh structure, light voids, sunken gardens, sports fields, shopping malls, water theatres, subway stations, bauhinia park, cinema, biking tracks, other scattered outdoor and submerging programs, the meaning of ground in this proposal is redefined as a dynamic multipurpose membrane. The density, vibrancy, diversity, contradiction of the cityscape of Hong Kong, extends to the waterfront of Victoria Harbor, but appears in a form of a landscape.