jonas e andersson: architecture for the “silvering” generation
and opening the residential care home to the surrounding neighbourhood in a de-institutionalising ambition.
Concluding remarks The present study has focused on the three municipal architecture competitions that were realized in the three Swedish municipalities of Burlöv, Gävle and Linköping within the perimeters of the governmental programme. The common denominator between the three competitions resides in the requirements, stated in the competition documentation, and their implementation as design criteria in the eleven competition proposals that the participating architects submitted in response to the programming documents. This study demonstrates the fact that programming documents used within the field of architecture for ageing and eldercare generate spatial requirements for an overall high architectural quality and long-term performance, rather than an extended understanding of how to grow old in a care environment with respect to the WHO policy of active ageing (WHO, 2002). Acknowledgement This study was funded by the Swedish Institute for Assistive Technology, SIAT, with the specific aim of evaluating the three architecture competitions that were realized within the governmental program “Growing older – Living well.” This study was realized in collaboration with associate professor Magnus Rönn, School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm.
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