Adaptive Re-use Architecture "Forever Young"
A home for the care of the elderly, empowering, educating and engaging all users as if they were children forever.
Pictured above is the preliminary research (above), diagrams of reshaping the original building (below left)
and secondary programmatic schemes (below right).
As the project's primary users would be elderly people, I contrasted the (somewhat taboo) topic of aging with child's play. Scattered through the residential program, I envisioned small spaces that acted almost as quests in a game, but programmatically provided the users with nostalgic entertainment activities (board game corners, a jukebox diner, an escape room and so on).
Because of the original building's shape and program, it was easy to reinterpret some of the existing apartments for the elders' needs, as well as reshape its geometry to enable more permeability. In the abandoned courtyard, I proposed yet more playful moments, including but not limited to climbing nets and swings, also intended for younger users coming through.
Pictured above are the modular units for the primary (residential) program.
This project was carried out in 2021, in my 3rd year Design Studio module
in Bachelor in Architecture at IE University.
Pictured above is one of the main sections.
