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2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
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Grandparenting Center: Connecting The Generations, Jessica Deangelo
Grandparenting Center: Connecting The Generations, Jessica Deangelo
2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
Site: Hong Kong
Grandparenting Center: Connecting the Generations
This building represents a Grandparenting Center, a place with a variety of activities where grandparents or older guardians can take children for the day. One in three older adults in Hong Kong are caretakers for children at least one day a week, and in most cases much longer. This center is a space where grandparents can connect with their grandchildren while also building a community of peers with similar responsibilities and demands.
A chief complaint of older adults caring for children is the physical demands of keeping up with a child. In …
Shared Sites - Design For Inter Gernerational Aging: Movement Around Water, Teresa Lu
Shared Sites - Design For Inter Gernerational Aging: Movement Around Water, Teresa Lu
2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
Site: St. Louis
Environmental press plays an important role in both a person's physical and mental development. Research shows that children and older adults' walking speed are both in the lower range of all age groups and are quite similar to one another. Even for a healthy senior, their mobility will most likely decrease in a gradual but stable pattern as they age. A healthy environment should be able to encourage mobility in a safe surrounding, while a completely safe space is often unenterprising.
The program proposed is a physical health center with a pool in the center of activities. …
Intergenerational Touch, Heewoong Yang
Intergenerational Touch, Heewoong Yang
2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
Site: St. Louis
Intergenerational exchanges are becoming more and more important as the society ages. Throughout this studio, I have tried to figure out what are the walls between generations and how to tear down the barriers with architectural languages.
Between two generations, there are a lot of strong stereotypes which make more difficult to interact with each other.
If we just ignore these stereotypes and try to make them interact, it might bring many side effects.
According to research conducted by Taiwan civil organization, they tried to give a particular preparation stage before making two different aging groups meet. …
A Space For Making, Making One's Own Space, Samuel Bell-Hart
A Space For Making, Making One's Own Space, Samuel Bell-Hart
2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
Site: Hong Kong
The programming is focused around the supporting of activities that broadly involve making and working with one's hands. Specifically, woodworking and gardening are chosen as activities that can be engaged in at varying levels of difficulty and enjoyed by a wide range of age groups. The first means through which multiple generations interact is the mentor/student relationship, where someone with previous skills in either area acts as a facilitator for an older or younger student to learn. There are two "higher level" activities, dragon-boat building and orchid gardening, that comprise the long-term work of the space and …
Musical Therapy Center For Parkinson's Disease, Howie Chen
Musical Therapy Center For Parkinson's Disease, Howie Chen
2019 Spring Shared Sites: Design for Intergenerational Aging
Site: Hong Kong
Design Intention for Uncle Shan and Nephew Justin:
This simple space tends to establish a kind of space prototype for intergenerational people living and working together. The space is designed mainly for two of my relatives including my 68-year-old uncle—Shan, and my 7-year-old nephew—Justin. Shan has been retired for almost ten years and developed his stable daily schedule throughout these years, while Justin is still a young kid who always kept being curious about the exterior world and whose schedule might be more flexible. the space should serve them both and fulfill their spatial needs either simultaneously …