Tzu chi welfare centre in muar town: reinvigorating active aging with community towards social integration

Abstract

The objectives of this study are 1) re-establishing the elderly still as a contributor to the community while cherishing their golden years upon active aging in place, and 2) architecturally sympathetic response towards existing fabric integrating surroundings of the site. After careful research through existing literature, interview and observation, this paper amplified the sensitivity on different criteria such as existing social lifestyle and the traces of the past that leads to architectural solution for newly established uses, program, activities, social welfare and universal values of the community towards social integration. In this study, the existing hawker culture and the shop houses was attempted to be brought forward to adapt to modernity for a better quality of life for the existing active aging lifestyle among the senior citizens in the context in Muar town, Malaysia.