Chapter 3 Design Solution

Chapter 3 Design Solution

We further develop our earlier proposed solutions that we have mentioned previously in the chapter 3 mindmap. We change the types of collective living spaces that we are going to use for our solutions. We are no longer using 'Own Housing (HDB falt/Landed Property)' and 'Nursing Home/Old Folks' Home' for our solutions.

We come up with two new solutions for our product. I will briefly explain our two new solutions as the detailed explanation will be provided in our written report.


The first one is Void Deck Elderly Housing. This Void Deck Elderly Housing will be a portable collective temporary housing that can be setup at any void decks depending on the demands for this housing. It caters to the elderly in the case of emergency such as fire accidents, en bloc redevelopment, building collapse and so on. When they have nowhere to go and stay, this Void Deck Elderly Housing will be used to 'rescue' them until they have found a new home to stay. It will be made elder-friendly.

Fig 1. Floor Plan of The Void Deck Elderly Housing

The second solution is Golden Container Centre. The short form will be 'Goltainer Centre'. Goltainer Centre is intended for elderly in their golden age and it uses containers as its building materials. It is a collective common space where two or more elderly gather to spend most of their time at. It somehow acts as a community centre. However, the difference of this Goltainer Centre and normal community centre is that, this Goltainer Centre indirectly serves as a living space for the elderly as they will be able to sleep, eat, play, relax, learn and do activities together in this all-in-one community centre. Refering back to our earliest definition of collective living space in which it says that collective living space does not necessarily mean that elderly have to live under the same roof but more of them staying together in a common space where they can do all the things that people do when they live under the same house. This centre will be designed elder-friendly too.

Fig 2. Goltainer Centre

Case Study 4

Case Study 4 - Common Ground in Korea

From this case study, we are inspired to create a collective living space that uses the concept of stacking shipping containers just like how this 'Common Ground' does it. We find out that using shipping container to be functioned as a room is creative and brings vibrancy. We would like to try it for our solution as we want to bring something fresh for our target audience that is the elderly aged between 65 and above. This concept is applied into our Goltainer Centre. I will explain more about Goltainer Centre in my next blog post about Chapter 3 Design Solution.

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What is Common Ground?

On April 10, the largest container park in the world opened in the rather dead market of Konkuk University, Seoul, comprised of 200 containers in total, surpassing that of Container Park in Las Vegas. Dubbed “Common Ground,” the multi-complex boasts 56 fashion brands and 16 food and drink stalls, along with a culture space. Interestingly, Common Ground doesn’t have any SPA or franchise brands that normally flood the shopping malls in this country. Instead, it is filled with petite shops from young entrepreneurs and social enterprises.

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Reference:

http://www.stylebyasia.com/shipping-container-complex-common-ground/