Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
This report sets out to investigate if and how a spatial extra care housing typology can be defined within the context of housing for older people in the UK. In particular, it focuses on the concept of domesticity in relation to the perception of public, semi-public and private domains. Four sheltered housing schemes that have been remodelled into extra care housing within the past four years, have been selected as case studies. The spatial distribution of various public, semi-public, and private domains of the pre-remodelled and remodelled schemes have been analyzed quantitatively and interpretively, to determine how their distribution might help bolster or undermine the ethos behind extra care housing. Likewise, the spatial layouts of the sheltered, as well as extra care schemes have been analysed syntactically, to determine how different spatial morphologies and their probabilistic functions might begin to help define extra care housing as a new type of group housing for older people. The findings of the report suggest that the extent to which the spatial configuration of a scheme affects one’s notions of self-containment and control, has a direct impact on whether the scheme performs as a building or as a settlement. It is furthermore argued that the more a scheme functions as a settlement, the less institutional it feels. Thus, as a typology, a successful extra care scheme can be defined as a building that works as a settlement.
This report sets out to investigate if and how a spatial extra care housing typology can be defined within the context of housing for older people in the UK. In particular, it focuses on the concept of domesticity in relation to the perception of public, semi-public and private domains. Four sheltered housing schemes that have been remodelled into extra care housing within the past four years, have been selected as case studies. The spatial distribution of various public, semi-public, and private domains of the pre-remodelled and remodelled schemes have been analyzed quantitatively and interpretively, to determine how their distribution might help bolster or undermine the ethos behind extra care housing. Likewise, the spatial layouts of the sheltered, as well as extra care schemes have been analysed syntactically, to determine how different spatial morphologies and their probabilistic functions might begin to help define extra care housing as a new type of group housing for older people. The findings of the report suggest that the extent to which the spatial configuration of a scheme affects one’s notions of self-containment and control, has a direct impact on whether the scheme performs as a building or as a settlement. It is furthermore argued that the more a scheme functions as a settlement, the less institutional it feels. Thus, as a typology, a successful extra care scheme can be defined as a building that works as a settlement.
Extra care housing: a paradigm shift
Wojgani, H. (Autor:in)
01.09.2006
Masters thesis, UCL (University College London).
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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