Care housing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about care housing
Project • By Woonwerk Architecten • Sports Centres
Huis van Droo
Duiven municipality wants to develop Droo-Zuid to be the centre of a neighbourhood transcending residential service area. JDWA worked together with Duiven municipality and Andries Geerse on the master plan for Droo-Zuid. The aim is to provide housing here for both younger and older people who require care, so they can live amidst their family, neighbours and friends. The heart of the housing & service area must not become a large foreign body with a care label. The challenge is to realize a residential area that derives it’s appeal from the (natural) mix of residents, the presence of low threshold facilities and services for both young and old, comfortable homes and a relaxed atmosphere in the public space.
Status: completed Janu... More
Project • By bureau SLA • Housing
Who Cares - Modern Courtyards meet Neighborhood co
“Our residential areas are not designed for so many single living people, the rapidly aging population and the fast erosion of social networks. Action must be taken ”– Chief Government Architect Floris Alkemade, 2017In the spring of 2017, the Chief Government Architect’s Studio, the Council for Public Health and Society and the Humanitas Foundation organized the Who Cares competition.How can we organize care and housing for people for whom living by themselves is not obvious? And how can we combine living and care more emphatically, in a society that isolates living and care?Bureau SLA won the competition for the location in the city of Almere in the port area by combining two existing initiatives: the modern courtyards and the Burenbond. B... More