Adaptive Potential of Architecture for Elderly

The aim of this thesis is to combine research methods with architectural design to propose an elderly living community with focusing on flexibility and adaptability. The typical elderly housing of China is mostly related to large scale mega-complexes that tended to occupy the maximum amount of people living with the minimum amount of effort, which lacks of cultural concerns, social identities and technological supports.The diversity of self-care abilities in both psychological and physical conditions as long with their cultural and social backgrounds is the principal design-driven point of this thesis. An elderly living community would be proposed with respect to exact requirements of different categories of seniors as well associating the autonomy of private, self-sustaining life with the advantages of community living.

Figure1. “Zweite Grundrissfibel Zu Alterszentren Erschienen.” ComputerWorks AG. Accessed September 23, 2016. http://www.computerworks.ch/vectorworks-blog/details/zweite-grundrissfibel-zu-alterszentren-erschienen.html.

Figure2. “BILDGALERIE.” BILDGALERIE. Accessed September 23, 2016. https://a4d.ch/index.php?id=1213.

Figure3.”Effingerstrasse, Zürich-Enge.” Huggenbergerfries. Accessed September 23, 2016. http://www.hbf.ch/projekte/wohnbauten/effingerstrasse-zuerichenge/.

Reference:

1. Grundrissfibel Alterszentren: 44 Architekturwettbewerbe in Der Schweiz 2002-2014. Zürich: Edition Hochparterre, 2014.