This is a project about a specific group of peopleand place: the Chinese elderly in
Strathcona, Vancouver. The parameters are cultural, social and physical. It is about a traditional
culture at a crossroad with a North American culture, the implications being a critical exchange.
I have proposed a living space that combines the closeness of a private world and the
openness of an active and meaningful public face. The design of the housing addresses not only
the area's need for elderly housing, but social and architectural perspectives as well. The private
housing component is combined with a community (public) part - a daycare - and a semi-public
part - the lounge, both of which allows the participation of the residents as well as the community.
The lounge is a space for small exhibitions and performances. The semi-private component
consists of a dining facility with kitchen, a small reading room (family room), a laundry and a clinic
(beauty parlour).
This combination means a dynamic connection of the public and the private faces.
Through the use of the community's own design language and ideas from Asian housing and
village designs, I have linked together a world of singular intracacies to create a rich sphere - one
that will begin an urban repair through a breakdown and restructuring of the integral components
of a place and the idiosyncracies of a culture.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4417 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Lu, Winnie Nien-wei |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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