Design Children Kinship Care in Guangdong China (Based on Motherhood Space Concept Through Isovist Method)

Abstract

Most of the rural areas of China have limited job types and have not produced significant profits. This triggers migration in various areas so that people who have a family and have children choose to leave their children in the village to earn a living in the city. The child left behind by migration is entrusted to a relative or grandparent. But they can not maximize to educate children. Their desire to educate according to the child's development is enormous, but lacks sufficient knowledge. Physically grandparents can educate children but psychologically can not replace the role of parents. Thus, family-based care is needed and use experts to help solve the child's psychological problems. Child psychological problems begin with a sense of loneliness and lead to depression. In this case the building is in accordance with family-based care program that is kinship care. Building kinship care on this project, designed with the concept of motherhood space. Motherhood space has an accompanying aspect that suits the early problems of the child's psychological condition. Accompany can be both physical and visual so that the proximity and visibility become the parameters of spatial arrangement completed in the design. Proximity and visibility can be measured by an isovist that shows the horizontal visual range between caregiver and child. The floor of the building is designed split level to help caregivers and children interact visually vertically between floors. The family's role in the kinship care program can be physical and visual accompaniment. The role of physical accompaniment such as visiting the child and the role of visual accompaniment can be the orientation of the mass of buildings facing the children's homes. The mass orientation of the building aims to facilitate the laying of rooms and windows that will face the ruamh - the family home of the child so that the child feels accompanied or feels not far from his family