A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
The study provides a set of design guidelines to be applied to midrise apartment buildings with elevators for older people. In determining how such housing can best meet the needs of the elderly, designers differentiate between frontstage areas where residents meet other people in a more formal way and backstage areas where residents can be informal and relaxed. This environment - behavior concept can be applied to areas inside each apartment, to community areas, and to the building site. A series of performance statements describe how a basic social need interacts with a special need of older persons to define a design problem. The statements refer to a number of zones the housing site, entrance, entry lobby, community spaces, elevator core, passageways, and the apartment unit. Principal behavioral issues affecting the elderly are maintaining distinctions between insiders and outsiders, finding their way around the complex, establishing a sense of territory for the building site, controlling privacy, making display areas of the building attractive, assuring feelings of safety and security for residents, and having furnishable housing to allow for individuality. The total building concept must attend to such factors as context (adjacent buildings and streets, direction of off - site opportunities, and location of off - site barriers) and the site itself (e.g., shape, frontage, views, slope). Drawings illustrate a number of design responses for each of the zones examined. Extensive appendixes contain, a reference bibliography of 84 works, a field research summary, architectural credits, and priority research questions.
The study provides a set of design guidelines to be applied to midrise apartment buildings with elevators for older people. In determining how such housing can best meet the needs of the elderly, designers differentiate between frontstage areas where residents meet other people in a more formal way and backstage areas where residents can be informal and relaxed. This environment - behavior concept can be applied to areas inside each apartment, to community areas, and to the building site. A series of performance statements describe how a basic social need interacts with a special need of older persons to define a design problem. The statements refer to a number of zones the housing site, entrance, entry lobby, community spaces, elevator core, passageways, and the apartment unit. Principal behavioral issues affecting the elderly are maintaining distinctions between insiders and outsiders, finding their way around the complex, establishing a sense of territory for the building site, controlling privacy, making display areas of the building attractive, assuring feelings of safety and security for residents, and having furnishable housing to allow for individuality. The total building concept must attend to such factors as context (adjacent buildings and streets, direction of off - site opportunities, and location of off - site barriers) and the site itself (e.g., shape, frontage, views, slope). Drawings illustrate a number of design responses for each of the zones examined. Extensive appendixes contain, a reference bibliography of 84 works, a field research summary, architectural credits, and priority research questions.
Midrise Elevator Housing for Older People: Behavioral Criteria for Design
1981
179 pages
Report
No indication
English
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