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5.3 ACCOMMODATION
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• The full-height glazing around the building allows the sweeping vistas of the surrounding landscape and ocean to bleed into the living spaces creating a feeling of being outside while being protected from the elements. This adheres to the ‘indoor sunglight’ (Pattern 128) (Alexander, et al., 1977). • The alcoves in the main hallway allow the residents to lay claim on the public space by creating a semi-public communal living area and ablutions that are shared between six rooms. This principle adheres to the concept of ‘alcoves’ (Pattern 179) (Alexander, et al., 1977) that states that a communal room should be intimate enough to give people the chance to be together as a group, even if they are doing different things. These spaces should connect to the main space but remain secluded without being closed off from the rest of the space. • The rooms are designed to be personalised by the residents. • Accommodating hydrotherapy in the retirement home.
FIGURE 6.22: Plans, scanned in from A Design Manual: Living for the elderly (Feddersen & Lüdtke, 2009, p.155).
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GROUND FLOOR SECOND FLOOR
FIRST FLOOR
FIGURE 6.23: (Kadawittfelarchitektu, n.d.).
PRECEDENT 4:
Location: State of Salzburg, Austria Architect: Kadawittfelarchitektur GbR Year Completed: 2002
The Thalgau Home for the Elderly and Children’s Nursery combines a home for the elderly and a children’s nursery to enable intergenerational contact between society’s youngest and oldest members. According to Feddersen and Lüdtke (2009, pp. 216-217) the home was designed to be reminiscent of small homes along a small town street . The heart of the building is the central courtyard between two of the masses, which is adjacent to the communal dining hall. Walkways completely wrap around the home’s perimeter to encourage active inner walking routes for young and elderly people and provide stimulating routes with bridges linking the various masses. The resident’s rooms have small seating niches in the front, leading
FIGURE 6.25: (Kadawittfelarchitektu, n.d.).
to the central courtyard that encourage social connection and help establish the transition between public and private. The big boxedframed French windows in the resident’s rooms also allow a direct connection between their rooms and the outside world, allowing the window to act as a flowerbed or a seat in the sun. There is a clear distinction in architectural language between the nursery and the home for the elderly. The nursery embodies a sense of lightness with its glass facades and floating roof, while the home uses warm colours and tone, with rhythmic patterns in the cladding and placement of windows (Feddersen & Lüdtke, 2009).
• The overlapping connection between the young and elderly through introducing the communal dining hall. • The difference in design languages between the nursery and home. • The small seating niches help the resident lay claim on the public space and establish a threshold between public and private spaces. This principle adheres the ‘front door bench’ (Pattern 242) (Alexander, et al., 1977) that states that benches outside of the front door allow people to comfortably sit and watch the happenings on the street, while helping to define the semi-private space. • The French windows adhere to the ‘window place’ (Pattern 180) (Alexander, et al., 1977) that states that at least one window in any habitable room should be a window just deep enough to be a seat to create a sense of comfort and relaxation.
FIGURE 6.27: Plan & Sections, scanned in from A Design Manual: Living for the elderly (Feddersen & Lüdtke, 2009, p.216).
CROSS SECTION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION ROOM PLAN
FIGURE 6.26: Plan, scanned in from A Design Manual: Living for the elderly (Feddersen & Lüdtke, 2009, p.217).
GROUND FLOOR
6.3) DESIGN DEVELOPMENT:
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The design of the retirement community consists of a mixed-use arrangement consisting of the most publicly accessible space being on the ground floor and the residential space being on the upper levels to differentiate a gradient of privacy throughout the building. INITIAL MASS 1:
FIGURE 6.29: Initial Mass 1.
