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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Dajiaoting “Big Family” Community Center in China by MAT Office architecture and designApril 16th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: MAT Office architecture and design “Big Family” Community Center is located in Dajiaoting Community, Chaoyang District, Beijing. It was a vacant underground space before the upgrade. The government hopes to create a public space for the residents’ communication through the transformation. The site area is about 300 square meters, and the underground original concrete wall could hardly be removed, so the original residential-like space has to be maintained. There are also various usage demands from the elderly, children, owners committee, community organization and other people. Different from the previous design experience, this project brief starts from the meetings organized by the neighborhood committee, the owners of the residents, the resident representatives and architect.  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang
 Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang After collecting the requirements of multi-party, the whole space is divided into four parts, which is community education, community organization, children’s space and senior’s community. To ensure the reasonable functional areas, we designed a shared hall in the center to connect each part. The multi-functional shared hall is able to support any of the extended usage such as party, salon, teaching, reading and other flexible activities. The use of luminous celling also aims to eliminate the lack of underground space and create an outdoor courtyard feeling.  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang How to provide a circulation from ground level to the underground space is another key point of this design. Taking into account the community’s emphasis on culture and education, we set 28 meters length bookcase wall, extending from the outdoor entrance to the shared hall space. The design of the bookcase wall on the one hand to settle the community’s 6,000 books storage, on the other hand can also make reading and learning to become residents’ daily behavior in this community.  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang In addition, the main user of this space is based on the senior and children in the community, so we use the \”small house\” graphic as the functional area of space to create symbols, with warm wood and bright and fresh colors to express the community center as a \”big family\” affinity.  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang The whole project lasted for more than a half year, including multi-party discussion, architectural design and construction processes. For architects, it is a meaningful social engagement more than a design project. It requires architects to communicate, participate deeply into the community and a wild range of space users from the very beginning, in order to establish a clear spatial logic to balance and coordinate the multi-appeal. The project also allows us to rethink the social responsibility for the architects at this time. “Sharing, Co-creating, Co-governance” is the key criterion of new generation community in China, and it could also be the potential for the architects to release our social value.  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang  Image Courtesy © Kangshuo Tang  Image Courtesy © MAT Office architecture and design  Image Courtesy © MAT Office architecture and design
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