“Oasis Community Center”is a community development institution developed and operated by a private company that mainly provides an area apart from home for residents’ long-time activities and communications. It includes catering and open culture activities and provides the services of book borrowing and course teaching and is also an area for care for children and parent-chlid interaction. And the center provides services covering the age level from children to the elderly. After several meetings of discussion three fundamental functions have finally been determined: sharing reading, community salon, and children development.

▼空间概览，overall view of the space ©研行设计INSTINKSTUDIO

“Block”is the smallest particle in the city and also of the smallest size close to the life between people. Looking down from the window of your room you can find the playing children on the street and neighbors talking with each other. A little farther, you also can see the man talking on the cellphone who just walked out from a café and the boisterous boys on the lounge bridge connecting the next building. All these vivid moments can be found in different blocks.

As for the abstract function of definition, there are unit groups made up of residential houses: public transportation areas connecting other blocks; open park and small plaza for residents to stop for a rest, also some small restaurants and stores; –all these compose life units of smallest size.

The concept of blocks naturally becomes the basis of the spatial combination of community centers. Two wings of the space include rooms of different sizes which provide areas for activities of different functions; The central areas are streets and an open plaza(theatre) and also a small theatre; The lounge bridge upper over the streets provides a shelter for children, which makes interaction and communication with the open spaces downward from a different spatial perspective.

▼连接不同空间的街道 street connecting different spaces ©研行设计INSTINKSTUDIO