Elderly
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Project • By Groundwork Architects & Associates Ltd. • Restaurants
Gingko House "Viet-Street"
The Gingko House new flagship restaurant is a community project. Gingko House is a restaurant chain that provide employment for the elders. We have attempted to retain the existing weathered and aged interior spatial quality to echo the unique business nature of this social enterprise which was set up out of the love for the elders.For those of you who are not familiar with Hong Kong, Temple Street was, and still is, one of the cities red-light districts mainly visited by aged local men and currently, Temple Street is now dazzling with tourism.The Gingko restaurant, which is a social enterprise, is ironically situated above a "Mahjong School”. The Kwok’s family - the landlord of the Gingko House - ran a chain of "Mahjong Schools"(... More
Project • By GUILLEM CARRERA arquitecte • Senior Housing
CENTRE DE DIA I CASAL DE GENT GRAN DE BLANCAFORT
Day center and home for the elderly of Blancafort.
A social building necessary for the elderly of the village of Blancafort and its neighboring municipalities.
The initial observation of the plot and its environment led to consider that the future building did not have to solve only a program and a requirement of an isolated building, but it also had to help consolidate the nearest urban fabric, creating an entrance to the village with its own personality and public character.
It is proposed to open the building to the three surrounding streets and public green area, turning the preexisting retaining wall into the base of the building and creating a core of common access and an internal courtyard for each of the two pu... More