Empowerment-oriented Double-aging Renovation of TOD Affordable Housing Complex:a Case of Xiamen Guanyinshan Apartment
Affordable housing has developed rapidly in re-cent years,but the location of residential areas tends to be marginalized,and the ability of residents to choose resi-dence-employment places and cope with long-distance commuting has been declining.Public transport is one of the most commonly used modes of transport for middle-and low-income people and the elderly.Improving the con-venience of public transport is a major link to solve the old-age adaptability of low-income housing.Transit-Oriented Development model(TOD)has been used in previous de-signs,but with the aggravation of the aging society,they were not applicable to the current situation.In this paper,the renovation of Xiamen Guanyinshan apartment is used to explain how to improve the senility of this kind of wel-fare housing complex.Through site investigation,analysis of problems,formulation of objectives and strategies,and the final design results,to complete the elderly upgrading of Guanyinshan apartment.TOD welfare housing complex should improve the following contents:the convenience of the elderly in processes of transportation:starting,trans-ferring and ending;streamline organization among diverse groups of people;employment opportunities for the elderly in low-income housing;aging-friendly details of public ac-tivity space.