INTERGENERATION
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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN 2049
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ALICE SHAN JIANG
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SITE PLAN SCALE 1:1000
YOUNG TYPOLOGY
In today’s society, people of different age groups are distant. Young people after graduation find it is hard to meet friends as easily as back in the uni. They can hardly share high living expense or
office at the back and a shared front-yard for kid’s playing to
ple The young adults after graduation, the middle-aged fami-
connect two neighbors.
lies with children, and the single aging people after retirement. Last but not least, the module for the aging group consider the accessibility as the most important aspect. So it prevent
to balance the longer work time and time spending with family and
group. From the original building typologies, it develops the
any level difference by placing four units in one plane. Each
looking after children.The aging population may meet problems of
first module for young people which consists of three apart-
unit consists a bay window as a independent living room with-
ments of a single bedroom unit and a twin-shared unit and
in the bedroom to give a enough space for private time. The
a three bedroom unit. The idea is to accommodate as much
four units cluster around the living room and the kitchen and
shared space to reduce the living cost but at the same time
dining space where they gather to chat or eat.
feeling lonliness, detached from the society after retirement. Based on the future plans in the surround area, projects such as the Arden Civic Centre, These problems are growing more serious in 2049 with the devel-
developments of the north melbourne train station, and a 14-levels office building will
opment of technologies generating and equipping more inde-
be built next to the subject site in the near future. It suggests that the efforts for building
pendent living modes. Thus, this project wants to deal with these
up a closer sense of community are made by introducing more civic functions benefit
problems by introducing an “intergeneration” living mode. By pro-
the neighborhood as an entirety. Since this is the focus of the surrounding context in the
voking communications among different age groups through ar-
future, this project follows the direction and tries to embrace this concept.
chitecture, it aims to let people from different age groups benefit from each other from the perspective at a different stage of life.
MIDDLE-AGE TYPOLOGY
The starting point is the to design three living modules for each
keeping the privacy by making each bedrooms placed at a different level.
AGING TYPOLOGY
confusion about future career with others.Middle aged adults need
The “intergeneration” complexes target at three groups of peo-
The second module is for families which consists of the independent working adults with children. By placing two houses next to each other, the main point is to introduce a shared
PROCESS DIAGRAM
INTERIOR OF THE “AGING” HOUSING
INTERIOR OF THE “MID-AGED” HOUSING
INTERIOR OF THE “YOUNG” HOUSING -three units offering various choices
- two units placed next to each other
- four units arranged in a cluster way around the
- vertical circulation for the
- use staircase to make level difference, keep pri-
- a shared office at the back, can be connected to
shared living and kitchen and dining space.
young for quick access
vacy and more fun to live
the informal learning space of the young type
- a smooth circulation in the middle, can be con-
- diagonal ciculation for the
- an informal learning space to anchor three units
- a shared front yard for kids playing, adults of
nected to the other types
middle-aged to seperate the
together
neighbor families can help to look after from win-
shared play space and working
dow
space
-place the two modules in a grid, by bring the shared space together - it creates a basic hybrid volumn 7F-8F SPIRITUAL CENTRE
-adjust the level difference
- use the “aging” type to con-
5F-7F BUSINESS START-UP HUB
nect the two modules, and pro-
PERSPECTIVE RENDER OF ENTRANCE AT LAURENCDE STREET
duce a closer interlaced living pattern
4F GARDN
3F ROOF TERRACE - repeat the step at each level
3F GARDN
3F1/2 EXHIBITION RM 2
The idea of a hybrid architecture is borrowed from previous
Using this definition to connect three building typologies.
exercise. The hybrid architecture is defined as being pro-
First is to consider the plan, and then think about the vertical
duced from different compositions of parent buiding typolo-
conncetion. Thus, both horizontal-wise and vertical-wise, the
gies. Through different composition, the parents give various
building emphasize the connection of different typologies.
- shift and rotate the basic hy-
- the void created in this shift-
- a vertical link is created to ac-
inbetween space, and by enclosing this space, it connects
Complimentary functions are added according to different
brid volumn to allow different
ing and rotating process give
commodate diverse function
the parents and produces a new building. In the connecting
interface of different typologies.
groups have better access to
space for complimentary func-
the sun and street view
tions which anchors the living units more closely
parts, new activities and programs is active, and it is the connection that is called the hybrid
3F EXHIBITION RM 1 1F - 2F DAYCARE CENTRE 2F GALLERY ATRIUM 1F -2F GYM
GF - GARDEN
B1 - CAFE LIBRARY
GREEN SPACE
COMMUNAL SPACE
CIRCULATION
LEGEND
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM
TYPICAL PLAN A SCALE 1:200
TYPICAL PLAN B SCALE 1:200
LEGEND
INTERIOR RENDER - DAYCARE CENTRE
INTERIOR RENDER - SILO GALLERY
INTERIOR RENDER - BUSINESS START-UP HUB
STREET VIEW FROM LAURANCE ST
PERSPECTIVE SECTION SCALE 1:200