Study On Renovation Of Existing Buildings Into Elderly-oriented Communities—Taking Shenyang City

Chinese population proportion structure has been undergoing inevitable changes along with its economic development in recent years,bringing a word popular in the internet-"population aging" into immediate reality.An issue that must be pondered on and explored in long term by future building industry through practice is to develop urban residential community space suitable for living habits of our country's aged citizens.Since the founding of the People's Republic of China,the urban living space mode of China has borrowed from two modes,the neighborhood community mode in the western society and the living block mode in the Soviet Union.Taking functionalism urban planning theory as its basis and practice foundation,the current urban living space mode adopts urban space organizational structure of equal planning and divides living space into a series of groups or functional systems including residences,roads,service facilities and green land.Such uniformly scalar mode enjoys characteristics of simple form and easy to organize and operate,but neglects autonomy and individual independence of habitants in the living space and their organic complex internal needs in life and their life independence.In the urban area,with residential buildings' focus shifting from quantity increase to quality exploration and dwelling environment's pursuit shifting from material level to spiritual level,the residential buildings constructed before,outshined by new types of residential buildings,have gradually exhibited many problems in the daily use due to lack of careful thought in the beginning.Moreover,population aging,emerging at full speed,has posed increasingly intense requirements on new living space design.Under such circumstance,studies on creating an environment special for elder groups have been in full swing;one of the perspectives is buildings.In one of the latest proposals,it is suggested to consider community culture development and dwelling environment as a whole with focus laying on humanity's uniqueness and independence,and to ponder on diversified living environment and living habits and base design on the aged's mentality and physiology.Such proposal enlightened a new design direction and idea,that is,multi-functional composite structure.At present,in the development of urban living space,the goal in terms of population aging is to realize home-based care and community support for the aged and to realize further improvement of surrounding environment and infrastructure.Problems existing in current community status1.Various land usage indexes and public utilities indexes proposed in the urban planning are mostly large space modulus and have never been analyzed in detail in small scale,thus failing to fully adapt to living needs of the elderly[1].Most of the residential district planning clamoring "people oriented" failed to really focus on details,leading to a phenomenon of mere skeleton.2.Community planning is usually controlled by Civil Affairs Department,whose planning mode features obvious characteristics of China's traditional administrative management system;thus the obvious flaws are lack of humanization and pointed space organization mode.3.The urban living district separation of our country usually adopts three levels of scale and structure,population size and land size modulus.Such spatial organization mode is too rough and single,creating a lot of confined spaces.