Print Email Facebook Twitter Engaging encounters Title Engaging encounters: Housing approach towards an age-integrated environment Author Lohmeijer, Lieke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Dwelling Project Advanced Housing Design Date 2022-01-13 Abstract Since the industrialization, the institutionalization of society has caused the segregation of age groups. In 1981 sociologist Martin Kohli introduces the principle of ‘chronologization’ that explains varying periods in peoples life according to the activity that is then most practised: education for the young, work for adults who are not old and leisure for elderly. This explanation, also called the age-differentiated society, is opposed by the age integrated society, in which all activities can be practised throughout one’s entire life. This causes more interaction between varying generations which would reduce fragmentation in society. Architecture can contribute to the age integrated society by developing new housing models in which multiple generations live together. Accommodating multiple generations in one housing project facilitates suitable houses for a diverse living culture. When, in these projects, space for interaction is provided and designed with attention for the possibility of intergenerational encounters, the interaction between generations is encouraged. Subject Age-integrationIntergenerational HousingDwellingEncounterElderlyUrban families To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98056fb1-9933-4501-aa20-8d5dfe94520d Coordinates 51.913233, 4.420557 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Lieke Lohmeijer Files PDF 4348265_GraduationPlan.pdf 192.71 KB PDF 4348265_P5_Presentation.pdf 49.8 MB PDF 4348365_P5_Booklet.pdf 39.49 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:98056fb1-9933-4501-aa20-8d5dfe94520d/datastream/OBJ2/view