建筑設(shè)計：DP建筑師事務(wù)所

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2 快樂中心選址在組屋架空的底層，跟大多數(shù)組屋的架空底層一樣開敞、通透卻毫無特色/Original site of Goodlife!Makan was in the void deck of a public housing block. Like most public residential void deck, it was open and porous but placeless in setting.

3 架空底層由一系列整齊的垂直柱廊組成，緊鄰住宅街區(qū)下的人行道，成為周圍的街景的一部分/The void deck, expressed in a neat array of rectilinear colonnades, was adjacent to sheltered walkway under the residential block, visible from surrounding streetscapes.

4 以食為本/Food as core

快樂中心是由社會福利機構(gòu)蒙福爾關(guān)懷發(fā)起的公益性項目。項目位于業(yè)態(tài)成熟的馬林臺組屋區(qū)，總建筑面積360m2，以中央公共廚房為核心， 旨在使獨居的老人與更廣泛的社區(qū)重新建立起聯(lián)系，促進多代人的交流。通過飲食文化延伸出的多種社交活動，為老齡人士乃至整個社區(qū)提供全新的烹飪與餐飲社交體驗，為其創(chuàng)造融入主體社群的機會，營造包容性更強、更高效益的社區(qū)環(huán)境。

設(shè)計背景：場地、人口統(tǒng)計以及場所特色

項目選址馬林臺組屋區(qū)52 的底層，交通便利，毗鄰住宅區(qū)、學校、菜市場，除了人流量大、可滲透性強以外，場地本身毫無特色。然而，這片50 年歷史的住宅區(qū)擁有大量的老齡化人口，因為這些人的生活經(jīng)歷和故事，讓這片區(qū)域變得豐富多彩起來。隨著時間的推移，獨居老人遭遇的社會隔離問題也開始顯現(xiàn)出來。此外，通過對現(xiàn)存的樂齡人士活動中心的研究，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)大多數(shù)活動中心都是極度內(nèi)向封閉的。于是，在研究了地理環(huán)境、當?shù)厝丝跇?gòu)成以及場所特色之后，設(shè)計者開創(chuàng)性地提出了無邊界社區(qū)空間的設(shè)計理念，期望幫助解決社區(qū)人口日益老齡化的問題。

以食為本

設(shè)計靈感來自新加坡東海岸地區(qū)豐富的飲食文化，設(shè)計還在探尋買菜、備菜、食用過程中更多的可能性，希望通過食物將老年人及更多社區(qū)成員聚集到一起。在了解老齡化社區(qū)居民更深層的情感、心理和社會需求后，最終探討出了一個舒適、具吸引力的活動空間，打破了內(nèi)向封閉的傳統(tǒng)老年活動中心模式。

設(shè)計以廚房為中心設(shè)置公共活動區(qū)域，充分考慮到老年人在日常的烹飪、就餐、清潔等行為模式，鼓勵他們展示備餐時的各項技能，使其成為該空間的主體。此外，這些美食活動還深受傳統(tǒng)文化影響，人們可以通過這些活動分享故事，建立友誼?！癕akan”在馬來語中的意思是“食”，它有將不同種族、年齡和宗教的人團結(jié)在一起的魔力。

無邊界和通透的設(shè)計

考慮到組屋底層架空的空間特性，設(shè)計團隊充分利用其通透性營造出開放包容的環(huán)境以減輕獨居老人的孤獨感，摒棄傳統(tǒng)活動中心由實墻或固定玻璃面做明確內(nèi)外隔斷的設(shè)計手法，探索活動空間的去邊界化。通過中心外圍采用的可移動落地玻璃門，活動中心與公共區(qū)域的邊界變得靈活通透，營造出開放友好的場地氛圍。通透的設(shè)計也形成了極佳的通風條件，舒適的活動空間轉(zhuǎn)而為中央廚房創(chuàng)造靈活變換運作模式的可能性。

開放的理念延伸至內(nèi)部空間，在這里，廚房成為中心公共活動區(qū)。圍繞廚房，周圍的空間被組織起來以備菜和分享交流。而其他需要隱私和封閉的空間，如辦公室、咨詢室、廁所和商店，則作為輔助空間被置于兩端，便于工作人員和志愿者的使用。這種布局方式形成了一個完整的大空間，靈活便利，可用于舉辦各種各樣的活動。內(nèi)外部空間互相滲透交織，和周圍環(huán)境完美融合在一起。

一個有活力的、包容性的空間環(huán)境

蒙福爾關(guān)懷致力于創(chuàng)造活躍的樂齡生活，因此采用了活潑生動的色彩與紋理，為年長的使用者打造獨特的活動環(huán)境?；顒又行牡囊惑w化存放架系統(tǒng)、存儲食材的器皿及鍋碗瓢盆都成為了豐富的空間紋理，也形成不同功能分區(qū)鮮明的標識符號。設(shè)計中的包容性也體現(xiàn)在圖標細節(jié)里，使其成為一種通用的語言，便于不同語言與文化背景的樂齡人士的使用。

快樂中心以人為本的精神，反映在極具啟發(fā)性的功能策劃與建筑空間設(shè)計。設(shè)計超越單一的環(huán)境塑造，更賦予樂齡人士主導(dǎo)社群生活的能力與可能性，助力新加坡的社會結(jié)構(gòu)從老齡化到無齡化的轉(zhuǎn)變。□

6 快 樂中心坐落在新加坡一個50年歷史的住宅區(qū)馬林臺，擁有豐富的社會文化歷史和高比例的老年居民/Goodlife! Makan is nestled in the 50-year-old residential estate of Marine Terrace, Singapore imbued with rich socio-cultural history as well as high percentage of senior residents.

Goodlife! Makan is an innovative social initiative created by Montfort Care, a voluntary welfare organisation, to support ageing-in-place, built around meaningful pastimes that address the physical and mental wellness of seniors. This cheerfully designed 360m2recreational centre is situated at the void deck of a HDB block in Marine Parade, with a communal kitchen as its nucleus. The place aims largely at reconnecting stay-alone elderly to the wider community and facilitating multigenerational exchanges.

With cooking and dining together as the essence of the experience, this activity space provides opportunities for senior residents to interact and socialise through Singapore's rich food culture, while developing roles and responsibilities from the rituals of food preparation and consumption. The facility reinterprets social settings for the elderly, as a pioneering and alternative model that is inclusive and cost-e☆cient to create and maintain across open neighbourhoods.

Context: site, demography & quality of place

Nestled in the heart of the mature Marine Parade heartlands, the site of this social centre is located in the void deck of an early 1970s HDB three-room slab-block. It has good vehicular connectivity and surrounded by neighbouring housing blocks, nearby schools and adjacent to an existing food centre and wet market. Though well sited with a good footfall of passers-by and residents, the existing void deck site offered a porous but characterless setting.

7 它鄰近美食中心和傳統(tǒng)市場，與周邊的住宅區(qū)和停車場連接便利/It is situated near the neighbourhood food centre and wet market, well connected to surrounding residential blocks and carparks.

This 50-year-old estate has a high senior demographic, bringing with them a rich history through their personal and collective stories and experiences that make this estate culturally diverse. However, there is also an emerging sector of elderly residents suffering from social isolation - commonly known as stay-alone elderly. Furthermore, through studies of existing local senior activity centres, most of them are found to be gated and highly enclosed. The combination of geography, local demography and quality setting calls for a distinctive concept capitalising on the authentic qualities of the site, to develop a unique borderless design that helps address the imminent needs of an increasingly ageing community fabric.

"MAKAN" as core - place making through food

The design concept takes inspiration from the influence of the key East Coast locale, typically known for its richly diverse food heritage. The design also explores how the ritual of food preparation and consumption can be a generator of refreshing culinary and social experiences that not just bring elderly, but also friends and the wider community together.

The design team worked closely with the client to understand the deeper emotional, psychological and social needs of a growing aged community in Singapore. Together, the team looked into developing an alternative design that is not only comfortable, vibrant and attractive, but offers a differentiated setting from typical enclosed social centres in our city.

To begin, the design transformed the void deck into a social nucleus centered around the communal activity of food. Much consideration was given to the movement patterns of the elderly, in their daily acts of cooking, dining, cleaning up together and mingling within an intimate space. The design allows activities and skills in food preparation to be showcased, hence empowering the seniors as active contributors of society instead of objects of charity. Furthermore, these food activities are steeped with tradition, especially with the older generation, through which stories can be shared and friendships can be forged. The element of Makan (the Malay word for "eat") has the power to transcend race, religion and age.

A borderless and porous compound

Respecting the spatial quality of a void deck, the design capitalised on its porous setting to create an open and fenceless compound, to reduce social stigma and address the psyche of the stay-alone seniors. The experimental design shifts away from conventional gated or glazed up elderly activity centre models to create an inviting communal space, seamlessly integrated with surrounding streets and walkways.

Through the use of an extensive array of fullheight transparent glass doors along its entire frontage, Goodlife! Makan is conceived as a borderless space, highly accessible from its surroundings. The porosity heightens a sense of transparency, allowing effective cross ventilation and natural day light to flood the recreational and social space. Functionally, the row of glass doors also gives flexibility in keeping the facility sheltered in the event of adverse weather conditions.

This notion of openness extends to the interior space where the kitchen component forms the vibrant heart of the open plan, around which spaces were organised to complement the preparation and partaking of food. The other spaces such as the offices, counselling rooms, toilets and stores that require privacy and enclosure are intentionally kept to the sides as inconspicuous elements, where staff and volunteers can operate discreetly.

This creates a single seamless large space which provides adaptability and flexibility to cater to different scale community programmes and events, with strategically positioned mobile partitions for multiple concurrent activities. These internal spaces, blurred from the adjoining pavement and lawn area, creates a highly open and inviting atmosphere that embraces the local surrounds.

A vibrant and inclusive setting

Aligning with the client's vision of ageing as an active and lively process, a bright and vivid palette of colours and textures are used to create a distinctive and vibrant setting for the seniors. They also serve to differentiate the various functional zones within the compound - effectively aiding the elderly, especially those with mild dementia, with greater clarity on what the different functional spaces are.

In addition, an integrated furniture and shelving system housing full-bodied local spices, food ingredients and utensils such as dried red chili, biscuit tins and porcelain cutlery, are employed as wider textural indicators to reinforce the refreshing colour zoning and subtle differentiation of the kitchen and food preparation areas, as compared to the dining area and the recreation spaces.

The sense of inclusivity extends to the details of the iconography, such as the life-sized signages and pictograms, which transcend beyond text and words as the universal language to communicate with elderly from all languages and ethnic backgrounds. This inclusive gesture also introduces a touch of fun and quirkiness to the community space and contributes to its lively and dynamic character. □

項目信息/Credits and Data

客戶/Client: Montfort Care

建成時間/Completion Time: 2015.09.14

項目建筑師/Project Architect: Seah Chee Huang

攝影/Photos: DP Architect

8 場地的通透性創(chuàng)造出無縫銜接，開放的平面為老年人的各種活動提供了靈活的空間布局/Porosity across site creates seamless connectivity and the open plan allows flexible configuration of space for various programmes and activities for the seniors.

9 通高的開窗模糊了邊界且利于通風和采光/Full height openings help to blur boundary while maximising daylight and good cross ventilation.

10 快樂中心的設(shè)計通過通透的格局實現(xiàn)包容性，創(chuàng)造出開放、無隔閡的環(huán)境，促進獨居老人之間的交流，減少了社會隔離/The design of Goodlife! Makan celebrates inclusivity through its porous setting, to create an open and fenceless compound that promotes interaction amongst the stay-alone seniors, mitigating the risk of social isolation.

11 特別設(shè)計的標識符號作為通用交流的工具進行功能分區(qū)，實現(xiàn)對不同年齡、不同種族和不同語言的包容性/Programmatic zones expressed by purposefully designed iconographies as universal tools of communication to enhance inclusivity for the elderly users, regardless race and language.

12-15 鮮明的色彩模式有助于提升活力和進行分區(qū)，同時讓老年人尤其輕度癡呆的老年人心情愉悅。標識符號是為老年人設(shè)計的超越語言和文字的通用語言。/Refreshing colour palette is deployed to help add vibrancy and differentiate zones of varying use as well as psychologically delights for the seniors, especially those with mild dementia. Pictograms transcend beyond language and words as the universal language for the seniors.

評論

呂小泉：無邊界社區(qū)空間設(shè)計為新加坡馬林臺組屋區(qū)快樂中心無障礙探索了路徑。根據(jù)新加坡組屋人際分隔的現(xiàn)狀，設(shè)計師用底層開敞無障礙空間和以食為本的手段，創(chuàng)造了不同年齡、性別、信仰的人群無邊界融合的實例。一日三餐是老齡化與人際分隔所面對的現(xiàn)實和主要的問題，快樂中心的無障礙設(shè)計用略顯局促但通透的空間、較為齊備的公共設(shè)施、對比強烈的色彩運用，營造出了不同功能的有活力的無障礙空間環(huán)境，努力消除獨居老人的社會隔離。食材、餐具、加工過程等都融入了以人為本的理念。這種功能策劃、環(huán)境塑造的無障礙空間設(shè)計探索值得注意。

周靜敏：快樂中心營造了一個充滿人文關(guān)懷的社區(qū)空間。該項目借助組屋原本的底層架空結(jié)構(gòu)將整個活動中心開放，除去兩端封閉的輔助用房，通過中央廚房與大空間的設(shè)計形式，提供靈活的功能使用可能。在對當?shù)厣鐓^(qū)群體心理、行為需求深入觀察的基礎(chǔ)上，以“食”為切入點，自然而然地形成居民停留、交流、團聚的場所，不僅實現(xiàn)老年人的活動需要，還能吸引不同語言、文化、背景的社區(qū)居民。項目的理念與設(shè)計方式在激發(fā)老年人自主性、促進社區(qū)鄰里交往、激活社區(qū)閑置空間上進行了新的探索，提供了解決老齡化社會問題的思考。

Comments

LYU Xiaoquan: A borderless community spatial design method has helped this project to explore a new path for accessible design. According to the current status of the interpersonal relationships in public housing, the designer utilised the spacious accessible space on the ground floor and employed the food-oriented approach to create a living example of a borderless community for people of different ages, genders and religions. Three meals a day has become the reality and the major issue that both the ageing population and interpersonal relationships are facing. The accessible design of this project adopted the compact yet translucent space, wellequipped facilities and high-contrast colour usage to develop a vibrant accessible space with various functions, attempting to eradicate social isolation in elderly people living alone. Moreover, the people-oriented concept has been infused into many aspects including food ingredients, tableware, food processing, and so forth. Such a barrier-free spatial design with both function planning and environment building is quite remarkable. (Translated by Dandan Wang)

ZHOU Jingmin: Goodlife! has created a community space full of humanistic care. The project opens the whole activity centre on the basis of the original stilt ground structure of the house group, removes the closed auxiliary rooms on both ends, and provides the possibilities for flexible functional use through the created form of central kitchen and large space. Based on in-depth observation of the psychological and behavioral needs of the local community groups, taking "food" as the breakthrough point, it naturally forms a place for residents to stay, communicate and reunite, which not only meets the activity needs of the elderly, but also attracts community residents of different languages, cultures and backgrounds. The concept and design method of the project have explored new ways to stimulate the autonomy of the elderly, promote community neighborhood communication, and activate the idle space of the community, providing reflections on solving the problems of the aging society. (Translated by CHEN Yuxiao)

16 無論老年人的能力如何，他們的行為模式和無障礙需求都盡可能地被考慮到，使他們可以共同參與做飯、吃飯和清理/Much consideration was given to the movement patterns and accessibility of the elderly, regardless of abilities, to partake in their daily acts of cooking, dining and cleaning up together.

17 社區(qū)廚房位于空間的中心，成為老年人準備食物的日常活動平臺，使他們成為社會的積極貢獻者/The community kitchen situated at the heart of the space, becomes a daily platform for the seniors to lead various activities in food preparation, empowering them as active contributors of society.