ABOUT
Life doesn’t get easier as we age. The older a person becomes, they are less visible. Like how buildings will no longer exist when it gets old. Dakota Lifestyle Village is a retirement village where elderly able to live in a community and in the vicinity of activities and medical services. A place for elderly who also wanted to remain active and engaged in their usual activities even with their aging age.
However, many elderly people would experience pain, sadness, boredom, loneliness and depression, in an old age, as a result of living alone or due to lack of bonding with the family. We often forget, neglect and don’t have time for the elderly where they aren’t given enough respect or attention they deserve.
The aims are to help the elderly to spend the rest of their lives blissfully peaceful with more personalized care by the nurses through activities to gather and bond together. With close access to the medical equipment and community support, Dakota Lifestyle Village offers a safe, reliable and warm environment for the elderly residents.
CONCEPT: BOOMERANG
Dakota Lifestyle Village
WALKTHROUGH
PLAN
1) Reception Area 6) Common Reading Area 11) Common Living Area 16) Outdoor Dining
2) Nurse Area 7) Common Kitchen Area 12) Private Room 1 17) Activity Area (Gardening)
3) Common Medical Equipment 8) Common Dining Area 13) Private Room 2 18) Hydrotherapy
4) Public Toilet 9) Common Balcony 14) Private Room 3 19) Outdoor Activity Area (Taiji)
5) Common Seating Area 10) Activity Area (Mahjong) 15) Private Toilet 20) Physiotherapy
No words are needed when you do a good act of kindness. The idea of a simple act of kind gesture is like a boomerang. Where life is like a boomerang when you show a simple kind gesture, it will come back to you, as kindness passes.
The concept of the boomerang is that when it is thrown properly, it has a motion of flying in the air. The boomerang will continuously turn to the left or right when traveling in a circular path and come back to its starting point. Like the phrase goes, “What goes around comes around”.
Based on the concept model, the concept is based on rotation and movement of the thrown boomerang into the design which also involves different heights. The rotation of the thrown boomerang is merged into the flow of the butterfly building as a whole concept which also affects the flow of the proposed programs. Due to the boomerang gradually ascend to a particular point and then gradually descend till to its starting point, the extruded structure on the building is placed in a different area for each of the storey which shows the rotation and movement in a circular path of the boomerang when is thrown.
SITE: DAKOTA CRESCENT
There are 4 different types of flats and 15 blocks in total, 8 of them are 7-storey 'butterfly' flats which are my chosen site as its the most iconic design of Dakota Crescent. However, Dakota Crescent flats are 1950s old which means it is been around for almost 60 years old.
PROGRAMME
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