Project Name: Pets Playground Designer: Sim-Plex Design Studio Location: Yuen Long, Hong Kong Size: 453 sq.ft Year 2019 Photos provided by Sim-Plex

项目名称：宠物游乐场设计师：SIM-Plex设计工作室地点：香港元朗

The Pets Playground Between Two Generations The young couple treat their pets like family members. The pets have their own personality and need to have their own space. The owners also choose to live with the mother so as to take care of each other. They are eager for a new living space which could give the couple, mother and pets a partly private and partly communal space. Sim-Plex then created a flexible layout for the young couple, Ken and Teri, not only the pets could have their own space of activities, but also could fullfill the different living requirements of the two generations of people.

两代人之间的宠物游乐场，这对年轻夫妇把他们的宠物当作家庭成员对待。宠物有自己的个性，需要有自己的空间。主人也选择和母亲住在一起，以便互相照顾。他们渴望一个新的生活空间，可以给夫妇，母亲和宠物一个部分私人和部分公共空间。然后，SIM-Plex为年轻夫妇Ken和Teri创建了一个灵活的布局，不仅宠物可以有自己的活动空间，而且可以满足两代人不同的生活需求。

The Circulation of Parrot, Cat and Three People Ken and Teri raise a parrot and the mother raise a cat. The parrot needs to live in a large cage and preferably could get the sunshine. In terms of the layout, the master bedroom is connected to the living room, while the mother’s bedroom is connected to the dining room. After consultations with the owner, Sim-Plex decided to place the parrot cage on the low cabinet in front of the large window of the living room, which is closer to the master bedroom. The middle section of the cabinet is larger at top, which is more fit to the parrot cage; setting in middle of the window, it is because of the direction to the west, so that the sun could be captured in the parrot cage in the afternoon; the parrot sometimes would come out from the cage, so the top light trough of the whole house could not be too deep, to prevent the parrot to foul on it. The three fritted glass sliding door could also be closed when the parrot is out to prevent direct contact between the parrot and the cat; the wood platform of the living room also helps reduce the chance of the cat from walking towards the parrot’s area.

鹦鹉，猫和三个人的循环，肯和泰瑞养了一只鹦鹉，妈妈养了一只猫。鹦鹉需要住在一个大笼子里，最好能得到阳光。在布局上，主卧室与起居室相连，母亲的卧室与餐厅相连。在与主人协商后，Sim-Plex决定将鹦鹉笼放在客厅大窗户前面的低柜子上，靠近主卧室。橱柜的中间部分比较大，更适合鹦鹉笼；放在窗户中央，是因为西面的方向，这样下午才能在鹦鹉笼里捕捉到太阳；鹦鹉有时会从笼子里出来，所以整个房子的顶灯槽不能太深，以免鹦鹉弄脏。鹦鹉外出时，三扇玻璃滑动门也可以关闭，以防止鹦鹉和猫直接接触；起居室的木平台也有助于减少猫走向鹦鹉区域的机会。

The cat has been lived with the mother for many years. Although the house is not big and there are three people living in it, the mother also wants a space where the cat could move around. Sim-Plex then designs the dining table to be integrated into the dining room cabinet, most of the time, it is hided to create more space for the cats; there is a cat toilet next to the entrance, and it is also a seat for changing shoes before going out; the central part of dining room cabinets is a void with cat round holes and walkways; mother bedroom’s wardrobe is integrated with a cat house, the cat could also come from the bed front low cabinet, through the cat walkway, jump to the top.

这只猫和妈妈住了很多年了。虽然房子不大，里面住着三个人，但妈妈也想要一个能让猫四处走动的地方。SIM-Plex设计的餐桌被整合到餐厅的橱柜中，大部分时间，它被隐藏起来为猫创造更多的空间；入口处有一个猫厕所，它也是出门前换鞋的座位；餐厅橱柜的中央部分是一个空隙，里面有猫圆孔和走道；母卧室的衣柜与猫屋整合在一起，猫也可以从床前的低柜子里出来，穿过猫的走道，跳到上面。

The Privacy and Communion of the Young and Old Generations In Hong Kong, the children of many families have left their home after growing up. The elders left behind are inevitably lonely. The causes are also related to the increasing emphasis on privacy and freedom of the younger generation. After receiving this project, Sim-Plex hopes that the flexibility of the layout will enable the homeowners and their mothers to have private and communal living spaces which would stop creating the same problem.

香港很多家庭的子女长大后离家出走。留下的老人不可避免地感到孤独。其原因还与日益强调年轻一代的隐私和自由有关。在收到这个项目后，Sim-Plex希望，布局的灵活性将使房主和他们的母亲拥有私人和公共的居住空间，这将停止制造同样的问题。

The three fritted glass sliding doors are placed in the middle of the dining room, cleverly becoming the separation of the zone of master bedroom and living room, and the zone of mother bedroom and dining room. When the couple needs privacy or the parrot comes out, they can close the sliding doors; during dining or family gathering, the sliding doors could be opened to form a large space. In the material selection, the master room and the living room area are decorated with light maple wood and grey color, while the mother room and the dining room are mainly white oak color, the bright color solves the problem that the dining room is far away from the window and the light is not quite sufficient. Although there is difference of materials in the two districts, there is also sense of harmony to ensure the two zones could also be treated as one space.

三扇玻璃滑动门被放置在餐厅的中间，巧妙地成为主卧室和起居室的分隔区，以及母室和餐厅的分隔区。当夫妻俩需要隐私或鹦鹉出来时，他们可以关上滑动门；在用餐或家庭聚会期间，滑动门可以打开，形成一个很大的空间。在选材方面，主人室和客厅面积均采用淡枫木和灰色装饰，而母室和餐厅则以白橡木色为主，明亮的色彩解决了餐厅离窗远、光线不足的问题。虽然两区的材料有差异，但也有和谐的感觉，以确保这两个地区也能被视为一个空间。

A Balance Between Storage and Safety Ken and Teri hope to have a large storage space. Sim-Plex proposed a wood platform layout, but after considering the elderly, the landing of the platform is inconvenient for her, and so finally only sets the platform in the living room, and the mother could easily come from her room to the dining room, bathroom and kitchen. This design takes care of the safety of elderly and also makes it more difficult for the cats to enter the parrot area;

在存储和安全之间的平衡肯和泰瑞希望有一个很大的存储空间。SIM-Plex提出了一个木平台布局，但考虑到老年人之后，站台的落地对她来说不太方便，所以最后只能在起居室设置平台，母亲可以轻松地从她的房间来到餐厅、浴室和厨房。这种设计兼顾了老年人的安全，也使猫更难进入鹦鹉区；

在客厅大窗户底部的低矮橱柜里，下面放着四把可移动的椅子，饭桌打开时可以一起使用，厨房和浴室的门都是用一个房子的形状，这更适合宠物的主题。厨房门还嵌入了烧焦的玻璃，以便在烹饪时可以观察到内部。所有木制家具均采用生态三聚氰胺面板制成，避免猫抓挠，减少甲醛含量，对人类和宠物造成伤害。

“Pets Playground ” not only is a project designed for pets, but also as a standpoint to achieve a balance between privacy and communion through spatial.

“宠物游乐场”不仅是一个专为宠物设计的项目，也是一个通过空间实现隐私和交流之间平衡的观点。