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interaction between different age group
1. Elderly with Children
Case study I: Altersheim Furttal, A Retirement Home in a Swiss Village
source:
Preiser, W. F. E., Vischer, J., & White, E. T. (1991). Design intervention: Toward a more humane architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
1. General Information:
This retirement home is built for elderly of over 60 years. It is near the city center and a kindergarten, good public transportation, which ensures the residents a strong involvement to the society.
There are 39 single rooms, 4 double rooms apartments, 13 nursing beds and 1 guest room.
2. Special Feature:
1). Connection between different age group
A kindergarten is located to the northwest of the retirement home, creating an opportunity of an integration between different age group. To facilitate this connection, a common courtyard is built between the kindergarten and the retirement home. The interior space arrangement also strengthens this connection by designing a "lounge space", which is also the center of the building, adjacent to the common garden, which enhances the visual connections.
source:
Preiser, W. F. E., Vischer, J., & White, E. T. (1991). Design intervention: Toward a more humane architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
1. General Information:
This retirement home is built for elderly of over 60 years. It is near the city center and a kindergarten, good public transportation, which ensures the residents a strong involvement to the society.
There are 39 single rooms, 4 double rooms apartments, 13 nursing beds and 1 guest room.
2. Special Feature:
1). Connection between different age group
A kindergarten is located to the northwest of the retirement home, creating an opportunity of an integration between different age group. To facilitate this connection, a common courtyard is built between the kindergarten and the retirement home. The interior space arrangement also strengthens this connection by designing a "lounge space", which is also the center of the building, adjacent to the common garden, which enhances the visual connections.
From this case study, I got an insight of embedding the connection of different age group through the following approaches:
1) Strengthening the connection between the senior center with the student apartment to the east of the proposed site by landscape and open space design.
2) Open up the ground floor to the whole community, including the students and faculty members, the elderly living near by.
3) Providing music practicing rooms in the basement for the community.
1) Strengthening the connection between the senior center with the student apartment to the east of the proposed site by landscape and open space design.
2) Open up the ground floor to the whole community, including the students and faculty members, the elderly living near by.
3) Providing music practicing rooms in the basement for the community.
2. Combined Living of Different Age Group
Senior Center in a University setting
The objective of case study under this topic is to discuss the possibility or method of establishing the connection between the Senior Center and the University Research, some of the existing cases are as follows:
1. Type I: university-affiliated retirement community (http://www.campuscontinuum.com/resources.htm)
1. Type I: university-affiliated retirement community (http://www.campuscontinuum.com/resources.htm)
1.1 Overview of site selection
1.2 Detailed study of cases
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The project delivering process and the project vision is very insightful which can be found here
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Site
General Introduction Video:
- Case II: University Commons in Ann Arbor (https://community.associawebsites.com/sites/UniversityCommons/pages/AcwDefault.aspx)
- Case III: Lasell College, Newton, MA. Lasell Village. CCRC (http://www.lasellvillage.com/)
2. Type II: Research Center Providing Service to Elderly in the Community
- Geriatrics Center & Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan (http://www.med.umich.edu/geriatrics/about/index.htm)
Faculty housing example
The experience in Stanford Faculty Housing (http://fsh.stanford.edu/homebuyers/eligibility.shtml)
adaptable design to ACCOMMODATE elderly with disease
1. Living for Alzheimer's / Dementia Victims
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
"Dementia is an umbrella term for a group of cognitive disorders typically characterized by memory impairment, as well as marked difficulty in the domains of language, motor activity, object recognition, and disturbance of executive function – the ability to plan, organize, and abstract. " (CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/basics/mental-illness/dementia.htm)
"Dementia is an umbrella term for a group of cognitive disorders typically characterized by memory impairment, as well as marked difficulty in the domains of language, motor activity, object recognition, and disturbance of executive function – the ability to plan, organize, and abstract. " (CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/basics/mental-illness/dementia.htm)
Quick Facts and Figures:
Alzheimer's Statistics
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Case Study
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Cohen, U., Weisman, G. D., Steiner, V. L., Calkins, M., University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Center for Architecture and Urban Planning Research., & Health Facilities Research Program. (1988). Environments for people with dementia: Case studies. [Washington, DC]: Health Facilities Research Program.
General Information of Case Study
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1. Analysis of "Wandering Path"
living unit
Single Room Plan
