A place to care: a design exploration of community care

This graduation project investigates the relationship between care and community and reflects on the possible impact of these learnings on design practice. Care is a complex dimension of life, which entails the act of providing everything that is necessary for the maintenance and repair of the world (Tronto, 1993). From this perspective, we can...

Spaces of care Inclusive housing on Maaspromenade

Context<br/><br/>The studio’s site is located in Boschstraatkwartier, in Maastricht. Historically, the city was strongly connected with industry, however during the last decades, it was facing many shifts. The industrial sites are gradually redeveloping, and the society has become more heterogeneous because of the migrants and expats. Its...

Caring for the Living Environment: The VAC Hengelo work on quality housing design (1957-2017)

In today's society, women are still not positioned as equals to men. This is no different in the field of architecture. When designing the built environment, the white man is still the norm and within the work field, the man still fills the majority of the higher positions in architectural firms. However, women have a different, more care...

A home and landscape for a sense of purpose in late life

Challenging in the face of many losses and negative biases is our last phase of life, the late life. We end up in nursing homes out of sight from our communities, we are viewed as valueless and stripped away from our own desires and standards. During a stay in a care home these observations led to the confronting conclusion that almost all old...

Mindful Urban Dwelling: Care and conviviality as a means to community resilience and adaptation

In the midst of climate change, a global pandemic, and an increasingly complex world, urban communities are in need for novel ways to adapt to the new climatic conditions.<br/><br/>Through a vision-led iterative design process, I explored how community resilience can flourish, by focusing on human relationships. Focusing on the values of care...

Meshworks of Care

Austerity and high land values in London have seen space for care minimised, privatised and restricted for efficiency and maximum profit. This project argues that care within architecture needs to be reclaimed from the closed practices that are framing it, and inhabited in its multiplicity. This work is situated in the neighbourhood of Wood...

The elderly network: Implementation of an elderly network in an existing neighbourhood

Designing for Care: Towards an inclusive living environment for elderly people. The implementation of an elderly network in an existing neighbourhood.

Intimate relationship development for the elderly: Transition from 'Volkstuin' (community garden) to residential environment

The family is the most intimate social environment given to us, and this basic social element plays an important role as we get older. However, changes in family structure and increasing physical distance between family members due to globalization make it difficult to care for the elderly by the family. In the global age, distance from the most...

Fun by the grey: A design where elderly live together and take ‘care’ of each other

The amount of elderly will increase in the future and elderly homes were abolished by the government due to cutbacks in 2012. There is no room for the target group that is too good for the nursing home and too bad for home care. In this Graduation Studio ‘Designing for Care I will anser the following question, ‘What kind of buildings and...

De Illusie van Inclusie: Wonen en leven in de wijk voor mensen met een psychiatrische aandoening

Vulnerable people with a psychiatric disorder are no longer staying in institutions outside of society, from now on the will live in the neighbourhood, in the so called ‘inclusive society’. In reality, some challenges need to be overcome such as loneliness and social isolation while living independent, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of...

The little street

The design aims to insert care program into Rubroek neighborhood in Rotterdam. With remain of the existing social structure, the design is not only for the dementia group but for improving the quality of the entire neighborhood. A lively little street which cross the site to separate different groups architecturally but intertwine existing...

Design of an exoskeleton arm support, which helps caregivers lift disabled clients

The topic of this graduation project is to “Design an arm support for a powered exoskeleton to help caregivers lift disabled clients”. It is connected to a PhD project on the Faculty of 3me in TU Delft, which aims to develop an exoskeleton for the caregiving industry. The idea is to decrease the physical and psychological stress caregivers...

Philips AVENT, design opportunities for a go-to hospital strategy

Philips offers a range of mother and child care products under the name of Philips AVENT. As Philips AVENT is the company’s brand for baby feeding, Philips Design sees a potential link with innovation opportunities for optimizing nutrition and partnering with families in the NICU and strengthening the business of Philips AVENT with a market...

Leegstand van verzorgingshuizen; kansen en obstakels van herbestemming

Als gevolg van het scheiden van wonen en zorg ontstaat er een dreigende leegstand in verzorgingshuizen. Naar aanleiding hiervan zijn de kansen en obstakels van de herbestemming van leegstaande verzorgingshuizen onderzocht. De hoofdvraag luidt dan ook: Wat zijn de kansen en obstakels van de herbestemming van leegstaande verzorgingshuizen naar een...

Take Care! Healing environment bij GGZ instellingsterreinen

Aanleiding Om de stijgende zorgkosten te beperken stimuleert de overheid marktwerking in de zorg. Als gevolg hiervan is het bouwcollege afgeschaft en is in 2012 een nieuw financieringsstelsel ingevoerd. Deze wijzigingen gaan gepaard met forse bezuinigingen in de zorgsector. Door de wijziging van financieringsstelsel worden de zorginstellingen...

Making hospitals more hospitable: designing new coffee systems for the hospital context

Health Care is gaining attention in the public debate, because our greying society leads to ever increasing costs and includes a labour force that is not capable of dealing with the increasing amount of people that require health support. This development is putting pressure on society in economic, but also social terms. Privatization processes...

A mobile care seat for elderly in the last stage of their lives

Many elderly are unable to move any parts of their body anymore. Instead of staying in a care bed all day, they may still experience life. Therefore, they reside in a mobile care seat. Currently, a patient lifter is used to get the elderly into the seat. The corresponding transfer procedure is takes up a lot of time, effort and puts a lot of...

Design of a product for Nurse Call purposes

In hospitals, care homes, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities patients and residents are dependent on the care of the nursing staff. They need to always be able to communicate with a nurse if they need help or when they want something. For these purposes Nurse Call systems and their associated products are used. Currently, patients in...