To visitors and even some CUHK members, the campus with its hundreds of buildings is definitely a maze. In June 1982, the Lions Club of Victoria, Hong Kong donated a campus model, placed at an eye-catching location right beside the gate of the University's main entrance. The club also donated four location maps. The model and the maps both had helped many visitors to locate the buildings.

The campus model is 135cm in length, 110cm in width, and 80cm in height, using different colours to indicate different regions of the campus. For example, red is the Central Campus, green is Chung Chi College, yellow is New Asia College, and blue is United College. Besides, each building is given its own alphabet code.

Smaller objects were added in the model with the completion of new buildings, like Shaw College in 1990, Leung Kau Kui Building in 1991, Sino Building, and Wong Foo Yuan Building in 1994. Since the late 1990s, it seems there has been no more update. Instead, maps and road signs were set up all over the campus. Today, people prefer searching locations on electronic map. Therefore, the campus model has lost its function and became a witness of the infrastructural development of CUHK.