THE URBAN NESTLE M.ARCH | AGEING IN PL ACE ABOUT The Urban Nestle looks into ‘Co-housing’ for Retirement Living. The proposal is divided into two building typologies. The first looking into Retirement Apartments and the second a Pop-Up University. The retirement apartments are sub divided into assisted living both having options for 1, 2 or 3 bedroom apartments. The Pop-Up university is a mixed use facility catering for students with facilities of an informal university. The program is aimed at providing baby boomers an option to educate university students in their field of expertise. It is an informa-
tion exchange program that promotes engagement between the two demography of users occupying the same building and engage with each other. There are 2 distinctive buildings each facing Adelaide street and Queen Street forming two dominant street edges. The visually distinctive buildings are connected by green mezzanine levels . There are self-shading balconies as well as shading fixtures applied to the Western Façade. The distinctive feature of the vertical twisting shades in the retirement living providing both shade as well as views into the city.
KEY LEARNING • Retirement Living • High Rise Design • Residential Design • Nightingale Model • Developer Pitch
SKILLS • Revit • AutoCAD • Sketchup • Adobe Creative Suite • Lumion Render • 3D Printing • Model Making