Elderly residence
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about elderly residence
Project • By CAA architects • Private Houses
Qing Ping Alley 30
The project is located in an old courtyard house in an alley on the west side of Beijing Railway Station, an old landmark in Beijing. The owner is in the prime of his life and his mother has Alzheimer's disease with a wheelchair for daily life and mobility.
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The old renovated house has a destroyed structure causing a series of problems such as ventilation and warmth and functional disorder. CAA’s concern is under the premise of protecting the Chinese traditional courtyard structure how to make more design possibilities so as to provide a good residential demonstration case for China entering the Aging era, let a 60-sqm small house meet the living needs of two generations at the same time, and endow the old ho... More
Project • By finderstudio • Private Houses
Kecherile Veedu
Traditional Kerala homes are rich in memories; of the long-forgotten smell of the first rain, the sound of raindrops falling in the courtyard, people sitting and conversing around it, the feeling of the warmth of mud walls and wood, the coziness of spaces; one may find him or herself drifting into their nostalgic memories of yesteryears every once in a while.
'Kecherile Veedu' is an attempt at recalling these memories.
As a home for an elderly couple enjoying their retirement, all the spaces are limited to a single floor, easing their movement within the house. Despite being tightly packed in an odd-shaped 11 cent plot, the two triangular sky courts make the spaces airy and well lit. These courts ar... More
Project • By Kjellander Sjöberg • Care Homes
Elderly Care Skärvet
The elderly care is a part of the city block Skärvet, which is the starting point of Bäckaslöv, a new urban district in Växjö being developed along the railway connecting the city centre to the lake Norra Bergundasjön. The L- shaped building is the first phase and the cornerstone of the city block, offering mixed forms of tenure around a spacious, shared courtyard.Common areas with good light conditionsThe layout organisation is based on arranging all common and neutral areas into a central hub with individual departments located in each respective wing. The core of each department is its dining and living room, an open space reaching from façade to façade. Its large windows and tall ceiling heights provide great daylight conditions.Spaces... More
Project • By GUILLEM CARRERA arquitecte • Senior Housing
CENTRE DE DIA I CASAL DE GENT GRAN DE BLANCAFORT
Day center and home for the elderly of Blancafort.
A social building necessary for the elderly of the village of Blancafort and its neighboring municipalities.
The initial observation of the plot and its environment led to consider that the future building did not have to solve only a program and a requirement of an isolated building, but it also had to help consolidate the nearest urban fabric, creating an entrance to the village with its own personality and public character.
It is proposed to open the building to the three surrounding streets and public green area, turning the preexisting retaining wall into the base of the building and creating a core of common access and an internal courtyard for each of the two pu... More