Introduction: Exploring Architectural Validity: Health Promoting Situations of Dwelling, Ageing and Caring
Book chapter, 2020
Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments.
The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life.
This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in health promotive situations of dwelling, ageing and caring.
The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market today call for alterability and adaptability in long term solutions for new integrated ways of residing. Meanwhile, an accentuated ageing society requires new residential ways of living, combining dignity, independence and appropriate care. Concurrently, profound changes in technical conditions for home healthcare require rethinking healing environments. This edited collection explores the dynamics between these integrated architectural and caring developments and intends to envision reconfigured environmental design patterns that can significantly enhance new forms of welfare and ultimately, an improved quality of life.
This book identifies, presents, and articulates new qualities in designs, in caring processes, and healing atmospheres, thereby providing operational knowledge developed in close collaboration with academics, actors and stakeholders in architecture, design, and healthcare. This is an ideal read for those interested in health promotive situations of dwelling, ageing and caring.
Author
Sten Gromark
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Björn Andersson
University of Gothenburg
Peter Fröst
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Inga Malmqvist
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Ola Nylander
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities: Spaces for Dwelling and Healthcare
1-20
978-100020223-6 (ISBN)
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Subject Categories
Architectural Engineering
Design
Architecture
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Areas of Advance
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Health Engineering
Learning and teaching
Pedagogical work
DOI
10.4324/9780429342370-1