The Architecture of the Interior

The Architecture of the Interior: The Healthy Environment

Tsai, D.

Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor)
Alvarez Rodriguez, L. (mentor)
Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

2016-04-14

For this graduation project I have been working on the design for a locally embedded dementia care home, which forms the ‘core’ of the project. Hereby the main focus has been to show the possibilities of improving the living environment of severely demented elderly in order to increase their well being, compared to spatial and social situations that are often recurrent within the existing traditional elderly care- and nursery homes. Several themes were explored when focusing on this improvement; such as the inclusion of extensive gardens and green spaces, the combination of a care program for severely demented people and other (public) programmatic functions, and the use of small-scale living homes for the ones suffering from dementia. The design location is situated in the southern part of Amsterdam, on the former Havenstraat terrain. This specific plot is surrounded by different spatial and social conditions, as it forms the junction between different residential neighborhoods (the Schinkelbuurt and Plan-Zuid by Berlage) and a former industrial area. On this plot a former prison building, Het Huis van Bewaring II, is situated. Through many years this built structure has given place to multiple types of functional program, including artists’ residences, and currently functions as a refugee shelter. Within this specific graduation project the re-use of this former prison building is of great importance, as it problematizes the relation between a given site, an existing built structure and a specific functional program, the dementia care home.

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Tsai, D.