Creating hanging patios and communal kitchens
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DOWNTOWN districts have begun trial efforts to expand living and activity space for residents in old communities by setting up communal space and facilities.
Residents in some old neighborhoods with limited living space can now cook in larger public kitchens with full facilities, meet friends or hold and attend festival occasions at public living rooms, as well as read books or try their hand at designing their own artworks.
The first such “shared living room” has been completed in the Guizhouxi Community near Nanjing Road E. in Huangpu District as a demonstration for other lane-style neighborhoods.
The two-story house, renovated from the former community activity center, includes shared kitchen facilities and living and study rooms that residents can make reservations to use.
There’s also a nearby public laundry house, with five tumbler washing machines, for residents to share.
They can save their limited living space at home and do laundry at the public facility.
After finishing laundry, they can hang the clothes on a “shared hanging patio” at the shikumen community. It used to be very common in old communities to hang clothes overhead like colorful flags.
The shared patio has a wooden frame which turns hanging clothes into “special scenery,” while retaining the traditional local lifestyle.
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