Multi-generational Co-living for Care: A Socially Inclusive and Caring Environment to Maximize Independence for Elderly

This study and design explores the possibilities and opportunities of multi-generational co-living for elderly in need of care, within an ageing society like The Netherlands. Younger and older generations are proven to have mutual benefits with each other; mentally, socially and therefore physically as well. Co-living of elderly together with...

Building massing generation using GAN trained on Dutch 3D city models

Despite being relatively novel, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have already been appropriated for application to several problems within the field of architectural and urban generative design. However, the preceding GAN based models for building massing generation make use of only simplified and two dimensional representation of the built...

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...

Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method

Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.<br/>In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based...