RESEARCH COVER

prioritizing convenience and urban living.

ISSUE #1

Over the next several years, Baby Boomers, the second largest generation in the United States, will be aging into some form of a senior living community and the shear number of retirees will cause a shortage on accommodations for this generation. Additionally, options and expectations of these communities have been moving away from the sterile nursing home model of yesteryear and toward technological advances and

ISSUE #2

Throughout the United States there are a plethora of empty big box stores sitting unused in prime locations just awaiting adaptive reuse for urban living.

With a thorough understanding of both issues, a comparative design experiment challenging existing infrastructure and social mindset of how we treat our elders will be conducted. The goal of this project is to adequately test the hypothesis of solving Issue #1 with Issue #2.

RECREATION

EDUCATION

CULTURE

IMAGE

PERSONAL HEALTH

ENVIRONMENT

Diana Wheeler, Peachtree Corners’ Community Development Director, created a R.E.C.I.P.E. for developing and maintaining desirable senior living communities. “Customer-driven communities concentrate on Recreation, Education, Culture, Image, Personal Health and Environment as critical elements in successful senior-sensitve areas” (Abbott, Carman, Carman, Scarfo, 169).

By assigning colors to the R.E.C.I.P.E. acronym and postulating how those programming elements could work together, I was able to map the four different side views of configuration 1 of the Venn diagram model and collage them together in the image on this spread.