01 PROJECT BRIEF This programme is to rework against the conventional institutional nursing home and mono-functional housing development in Singapore which have been deteriorating the condition of people with dementia. Rather than designing a mock-up 50's or 60's living environment for people with dementia, this project attempts to focus on the spatial experiences of the people that use the spaces / buildings, to create a strong sense of community, Proposed Site
familiarity and identity. A domestic environment is developed with referencing to a series of familiar daily routine and slow down the progress of dementia.
Kampung Lorong Buangkok
latitudes 1° 22' N
activities to promote independence and confidence of people with dementia , in order to evoke their memory
02 DEMOGRAPHICS Dementia TODAY
Dementia TOMORROW
There are 22,000 people living with dementia
In 2030, 1 in every 10 elderly will be suffering from dementia.
in Singapore, 2010.
Who will be their carers in this future shrinking population?
longitudes 103° 48' E
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900,000 senior
10% of them will be
citizen
suffering from dementia
Dementia Living Village
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An integrated development for people with dementia in Singapore Khoo Seah Fern 060971 KDA772 2014
50% cared by domestic maid at home 75% choose to stay at home alone or with family members 25% choose to stay in nursing homes / old folk centres
03 USER CONNECTION + CHALLENGE OF CARE Quiet zone for family retreat
Design Priority
Spaces for social activities
1. To provide a weekend getaway for visitors or family with variety of social activites and outdoor spaces 2. 24-hr onsite staffs / carers are required to
Dementia
Family
Community
take care of mid and late stage residents. 3. Interaction between exiting community and dementia residents to promote continuity
Consultation & Therapy
living of previous daily routines.
Healing garden
Challenge of Care
24-hr onsite Occupantional Therapist
1. Isolation for different levels of care to prevent witnessing their gradually no-cure progress.
EARLY
MID
2. Spending enough time in nature and
LATE
outdoor exercises to slow down the progress of deteriotation.
04 THE PLACE CALLED 'HOME' ......
Pet
Play
Plant
People
Site Plan Scale 1 : 500 Pieces of memory in Kampung Lorong Buangkok
04 METHODOLOGY
33 °C
NE
Pragmatic Approach
Architectural Approach
1. Functional Zoning
1. Notion of Home 3-Storey building responds to the building height of the semi-detached houses opposite river and adjacent condominum residential.
Institutional
A flat rather than just a bedroom
House on Stilts Social spaces are loacted at ground floor to maximise facade opening - create 'raised-up' effect.
Bed
One Big Communal Dining
Bed
One Big Communal Dining
Residential
like home instead of bedside like hospital.
High Care Apartment
Staffs rest room and apartment unit (located at ground floor)
Corridor as heat buffer Common corridor is placed at west side with timber screen shading to protect building envelope from direct sunlight.
Social Spaces
Big spaces can be overwhelming and confusing for people with dementia
Communal Building
25 °C
1. Building Form vs. Climatic Resposive Design
Bed
Ideally to design small and domestic spaces Visitors can sit with residents at living room
Assisted Living Apartment
Home-like
Bed Bed
within spaces rather than large spaces.
Independent Living Apartment
Environmental Approach
12 hrs
Personal lounge where residents can invite friends and familiy to their 'home'
Orientation East-west orientation to minimize area expose to solar radiation.
Rain water harvesting tank
2. Security vs. Autonomy Facilitate wayfinding and stimulate remaining congnitive abilities
2. Access & Circulation
2. Landscape Approach
A physical barrier is necessary to provide maximum security within the living village in order to prevent residents from wandering beyond the boundary without infringing residents’ liberty and dignity.
Nodes
2- way Vehicle route
Nurse station at every lift core at ground floor
Camouflage exit door with furniture or changeof-materials.
Vertical circulation
Loading / unloading
Entrance / car parking
Existing forest mediates with healing garden and proposed outdoor spaces. Landscape creates an 'invisible' buffer and provides 'segmented memory' along walkway.
Landmarks
Covered walkway
Emergency pick up
3. Sectional Strategy (notion of public vs private, inside vs outside)
Institutional
Home-like
Everyone stays in one locked space and watched by a nurse.
Good opportunity to wandering like own home, and around the building with passive surveillance.
3. Life between Corridors Those days before they forget
Public access spaces
It is not about designing a 50's or 60's dementia village, instead, the approach of this project allows Semi-public social spaces for residents and surrounding community, and staff units
Districts Staff Apartment
Sequences of outdoor spaces and activities create a safe and designated wandering route as well as facilitate wayfinding.
3. Materiarity The priority and focus of selected material is to facilitate wayfinding, also respond to Singapore tropical weather and also respect the existing forest topography and adjacent traditional village. External wall
Colour strategy for wayfinding
residents to develop a continuation of daily routines and create their collective of ownerships to the building. The project aims to provide a familiar domestic neighbourhood living where there are
friends, family, children, pets and plants. Private residential apartment
Existing colourful fencing
Coloured fencing to assist navigation and create visual memory along walkway back to 'home'.
Spatial hierarchy of traditional village house Connector (Corridor)
Communal
External floor Changing of floor material to prevent wandering beyond the boundary.
Private
Spatial hierarchy of traditional chinese shop houses in Singapore Private backyard
Air well
Private spaces and bedrooms
Living room
Public
Semi public
Shared space
Private
Semi private
Traditional 'peranakan' tile, a derivative of Dutch Delft tiles which can be found in traditional chinese shop houses design.
Personal lounge at assisted living group home. Use contrast colours and change-ofmaterial to indicate different spaces
View from communal outdoor dining deck to morning coffee house, vege garden, child care and Taichi platform.
Box window at quiet corner for alone-time, small group activities or family retreat.