Changzhou Home
To relocate a person from their community, from the environment that they lived in often for several decades prior, in order to locate them in a space that can accommodate increasing levels of care as one ages is an increasingly complex issue in China.
Social and economic norms from previous generations, where cohabitation of several generations provided a safety net for the old and care needy, is slowly disappearing with the modernisation and increasing migration of people from rural to city, from the home to the office.
A solution for aged care in modern China must seeks to create a feeling of home, of community, co-living and connection between occupants and also the wider community. The program of Changzhou Home is intended to replicate the complex social and demographic structures of people’s lives within a care environment. Encouraging different function groups, age groups and diverse modes of occupation throughout the project creates a sense of ownership, belonging and home.
