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“大家庭”社区中心位于北京市朝阳区大角亭社区。升级前是一个空置的地下空间。政府希望通过这种转变为居民交流创造一个公共空间。

“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.

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场地面积约300平方米，地下原混凝土墙难以拆除，原住宅空间必须保持。此外，长者、儿童、业主委员会、社区组织及其他人士亦有不同的使用需求。与以往的设计经验不同，本项目简介是从社区委员会、居民业主、居民代表和建筑师组织的会议开始的。

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. 

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在收集多党需求的基础上，将整个空间划分为社区教育、社区组织、儿童空间和老年人社区四个部分。为了保证合理的功能区，我们在中心设计了一个共享大厅来连接各个部分。多功能共享大厅可以支持任何扩展用途，如聚会，沙龙，教学，阅读和其他灵活的活动。使用发光室还旨在消除缺乏地下空间，并创造室外庭院的感觉。

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.

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如何提供一个从地面到地下空间的循环是本设计的另一个重点。考虑到社区对文化和教育的重视，我们设置了28米长的书柜墙，从室外入口一直延伸到共享的大厅空间。书柜墙的设计一方面解决了社区六千册藏书的问题，另一方面也使阅读和学习成为这个社区居民的日常行为。

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.

另外，这个空间的主要用户是以社区中的老人和孩子为基础，所以我们用“小房子”图形作为空间的功能区来创造符号，用温暖的木材和鲜亮的色彩来表达社区中心作为“大家庭”的亲和力。

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.

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整个项目持续了半年多，包括多方讨论、建筑设计和施工过程。对建筑师来说，这不仅仅是一个设计项目，更是一个有意义的社会参与。它要求建筑师从一开始就深入参与社区和广大空间用户的交流，以建立一个清晰的空间逻辑来平衡和协调多重诉求。这个项目也让我们重新思考这个时候建筑师的社会责任。“共享、共同创造、共同治理”是我国新一代社区建设的关键标准，也是建筑师释放社会价值的潜在条件。

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.

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Architects MAT Office

Location Dajiaoting N St, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100022

Design Team Kangshuo Tang, Miao Zhang, Siyao Huang, Xuan Cao, Ting Gong, Kaidong Jiang

Area 300.0 m2

Project Year 2016

Photographs Kangshuo Tang