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