CHUNTAIWANG Rehabilitation and Elderly Care Institution ——Healing in the garden / Yijian Arch
Awards:
1. 2023 ICONIC Award Innovation Architecture – WINNER
2. 2023 World Architecture Festival— Completed Building Healthy, short list
3. 2022 Pro+ Award - Silver Award for Public Buildings,Shanghai Architectural Society
4. 2024 Pro+ Award - Gold Award for Planning,Shanghai Architectural Society
With China’s economic growth and population aging, more and more unique and high-quality elderly care models are emerging. This project aims to explore a new method that combines garden healing concept into an institution. This building consists of an elderly care center and a rehabilitation center. It also adopts passive house technology to become an ultra-low energy building. This project has obtained a Passive House Certification of PHI.
The shape of the site is very irregular. It is difficult to make use of them. Our solution is divided the building into small pieces, following the shapes of site. And these pieces form to two buildings. One is a rehabilitation hospital and the other is an elderly care center. The interesting things is that two buildings defined an outdoor central garden. It creates the "natural healing " experience for elders, and where they could stay, walk around, and relax. Every important indoor space arranged to around the garden, the garden become the core of this project.
As saving building energy consumption, the energy-saving consultants hoped to reduce the window area to decrease the sunshine’s effects. In order to weaken large-area walls, we added yellow and gray color blocks to embellish the building. " Bright yellow" is intended to echo colors of the nature background; "silver gray" color comes from the silver hair of elders. Also, we use the cure line and colors to create an elegant façade. The building seems friendly and lively for elder people.
The design fully reflects the perspective of the elderly. There are many indoor public spaces on each floor to meet their social needs. By lowering the height of the windowsill, the elderly can sit in a chair or even lie on the bed with enjoying the outdoor landscape.