Casos de Referência Internacionais mais Específicos e aplicáveis à Habitação Intergeracional: Parte II – infohabitar # 977 

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Infohabitar, ano XXII, n.º 977 

Edição: quarta-feira 20 de Maio de 2026

 

 

Fig. 01: uma simulação arquitectónica apenas “experimental” e associável ao espaço de entrada comum de uma pequena intervenção residencial e urbana, intergeracional, adaptável e participada - realizada com base em diversas ferramentas de IA.

 

Editorial

Caros amigos e leitores da Infohabitar,

Continuamos a desenvolver a divulgação de aspetos ligados a casos considerados de referência ligados ao estudo teórico-prático do PHAI3C - Programa de Habitação Adaptável Intergeracional Cooperativa a Custos Controlado, agora referido, frequentemente, como “uma nova forma de habitar adaptável, intergeracional, equipada e participada”.

Continuamos, portanto, neste artigo, com a divulgação de casos de referência, neste caso especificamente ligados à matéria da intergeracionalidade, internacionais e considerados mais específicos de determinadas matérias e/ou objetivos de intervenção.

Na medida do possível iremos dar prioridade à conclusão da divulgação comentada dos casos de referência aplicáveis à habitação intergeracional, equipada e participada, para depois passarmos aos artigos finais do estudo e série editorial.

Boas leituras e naturalmente seria muito bom poder ter contribuições vossas nesta matéria intergeracional, seja a título de sugestões, seja mesmo como artigos propostos para publicação e eventualmente na sequência da leitura dos artigos agora em publicação e que tratam de aspetos bem urgentes e críticos em Portugal.

 

Saudações cordiais,

António Baptista Coelho

Editor da infohabitar

20 de maio de 2026

 

Casos de Referência Internacionais mais Específicos e aplicáveis à Habitação Intergeracional: Parte II – infohabitar # 977

 

1. Introdução ao perfil de análise e apresentação dos Casos de Referência ligados a habitação intergeracional, estudados no âmbito do PHAI3C

Os casos de referência que são em seguida apresentados estão marcados por um perfil de apresentação muito prático que desde já se sintetiza:

. Os textos realizados têm um perfil claramente "de trabalho"; foram, naturalmente, revisto, mas são assumidos como fases de procura prática de elementos para informação dos artigos de síntese.

. Os textos realizados correspondem apenas à opinião do autor e são muito influenciados pela sua respetiva formação arquitectónica e habitacional.

. Os textos realizados são, quase sempre, baseados apenas no estudo de documentos identificados na WWW; quando tenha havido visita essa condição é devidamente sublinhada no início dos mesmos.

. Os textos realizados correspondem ao “respigar” de aspetos considerados úteis ou oportunos no sentido do apoio ao desenvolvimento de soluções a desenvolver no âmbito do PHAI3C; não constituem, portanto, qualquer tipo de análise dos respetivos casos relativamente aos seus objetivos residenciais e/ou de equipamento específicos.

Por razões práticas e de agilização da apresentação não se usam  imagens originais; podendo ser realizados esquemas ilustrativos e descrições sintéticas de espaços e equipamentos.

Os textos em itálico correspondem a muito frequentes citações retiradas dos muitos documentos usados; mas estes não se encontram extensamente referenciados, por razões ligadas à grande quantidade de informação tratada; salientando-se, sempre, o carácter “de trabalho” e de apoio do presente documento, onde se pretendeu alertar para essas essenciais fontes e delas retirar desde já elementos práticos de apoio à conclusão do presente estudo.

E por fim mas considerando-se que é matéria estruturante, convidam-se os leitores a procurarem aceder, na WWW e por outros meios, aos diversos e fundamentais aspetos de cada caso de referência considerado e a daí retirarem as vossas respetivas conclusões e aspetos de reflexão, que são, sem dúvida, essenciais.

2. Listagem geral ordenada dos mais de 100 Casos de Referência ligados a habitação intergeracional e estudados no âmbito do PHAI3C

A estruturação geral dos casos de referência considerados no estudo seguiu essencialmente o seu perfil tipológico e de localização, que aqui, novamente, se resume:

Ibéricos e sul-americanos – correntes 11 casos

Ibéricos e sul-americanos – Intergeracionais 7 casos

Internacionais – Correntes ou mais Específicos 60 casos

Internacionais – Intergeracionais 13 casos

Internacionais - Específicos para demências 7 casos

Internacionais - Envelhecer na sua casa  5 casos

3. identificação dos “Casos de Referência ligados a Habitação Intergeracional, internacionais e mais específicos” – 25 casos – apresentados no presente artigo (ordem cronológica de desenvolvimento)

A seguinte apresentação dos títulos dos casos, depois comentados individualmente de forma sintética, destina-se a podermos ficar com uma ideia geral da matéria, que não pode deixar bastante diversificada quando pretendemos visar uma nova categoria de tipificação habitacional e urbana, pois em cada caso/situação podemos retirar aspetos significativos e cada caso pode ser, aparentemente, pequeno nos seus aspetos aqui respigados mas até, eventualmente, muito significativo na sua influência no corpo final de sugestões sobre uma renovada forma de habitar intergeracional, adaptável, variadamente apoiada, naturalmente convivial e participada.

Tendo-se em conta a extensão dos casos apurados o presente artigo é editado em duas partes; em seguida e a negrito apontam-se os casos abordados no presente artigo; salienta-se, ainda, a relativa informalidade da apresentação (iniciando-se nas próprias referências aos casos, que não foram uniformizadas) e das abordagens em seguida realizadas, associadas a uma matéria muito extensa e à natureza do presente artigo/documento que se quer que seja “de trabalho” e de apontamento de casos, que, sequencialmente, o leitor poderá procurar e aprofundar, facilmente, na WWW, designadamente, no que se refere à respetiva e importante ilustração.

1.      2018 Levensloopbestendige (Apartments for Life) in The Netherlands

2.      2018 Habitação para a aposentação + – McCarthy & Stone

3.      2018 Casos de projecto do PRP UKI

4.      2017  Quality designs for later life housing: Highs and lows – cottage HAPPIness

5.      2017 AV

6.      2016 Woodchester Valley Village

7.      2016 Casos Orchard Cove

8.      2016 Accessing shared ownership for people with disabilities in Wales: An overview of using the HOLD scheme

9.      2016 Independent Living with Care

10.  2016 Architectural Competitions for Care and Caregiving

11.  2015 Maggie Centers

12.  2015 Logévie

13.  2015 Case study report

14.  2014 Hazel Court

15.  2013 DFAR12 Insights and Innovations

16.  2013 The Design Perspective: HAPPI principles in later life

17.  2013 Assisted Living Platform - The Long Term Care Revolution: A study of innovatory models to support older people with disabilities in the Netherlands

18.  2012 Vários Maggie Centers

19.  2011 Casos – Le Port, La Réunion

20.  2010 Senior Forum: A whole concept

21.  2010 Elderly Housing Design in Charlton

22.  2009 Homes for our old age Independent living by design CABE

23.  2006 Design and neighbourhood healthcare buildings CABE

24.  2005 A collection of case studies demonstrating exemplar ‘sustainable community

25.  2001 ICA Housing Co-operatives Habitat II

26.  1974 De Drie Hoven elderly housing, Amsterdam

 

Chama-se ainda e novamente a atenção para o cariz esquemático e “de trabalho” dos referidos comentários, referidos, portanto, a uma fase preliminar de sugestões conclusivas para uma “nova” tipologia residencial baseada em espaços privados, comuns e de uso público.

E finalmente avisam-se os leitores para a diversidade de extensão das referências a cada caso de estudo e para o frequente recurso a citações retiradas dos respetivos documentos consultados essencialmente na WWW – e indicadas a itálico. Os destaques a negrito são nossos e em cada caso de referência optou-se pela estruturação de texto julgada mais adequada à respetiva leitura – por exemplo com sínteses de itens, ou com textos alternados por citações e comentários.

 

4. Apresentação ordenada e sintética de aspetos apurados na análise do conjunto de casos referência intitulado “Casos de Referência ligados a Habitação Intergeracional, internacionais e mais específicos” de uma dada temática e/ou de um dado conjunto de objetivos

... os itens 4.1 a 4.11 foram editados na passada semana

4.12. - 2015 - Logévie, Spécialiste de l´Habitat pours Seniors

Fontes principais

http://senior.logevie.fr/

http://famille.logevie.fr/contenu/,nos_missions,6

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

En 2050, un habitant sur trois en France aura plus de 60 ans et pourra être confronté à la baisse de ses revenus..

… Logévie a notamment construit 84 établissements, situés presque tous en Gironde, qui regroupent 4000 personnes âgées. 

A partir de 2005, l'Entreprise Sociale pour l'Habitat s'est spécialisée dans l'intergénérationnel.

Aujourd'hui, Logévie couvre deux types d'habitat pour seniors :

- elle favorise le maintien à domicile des seniors dans des logements sociaux - classiques, adaptés ou intergénérationnels.

- elle propose des établissements avec services pour seniors, de type EHPA (Etablissement d'Hébergement pour Personnes Agées), gérés en partenariat avec les CCAS des communes.

- Logévie construit également des EHPAD (Etablissement d'Hébergement pour Personnes Agées Dépendantes) pour le compte de gestionnaires agissant sans but lucratif : associations, fondations ou collectivités locales.

Etablissements avec services pour seniors
Répartis dans 30 établissements avec services de type EHPA, Logévie propose plus de 1500 logements pour personnes âgées autonomes. 
Conçus pour accueillir des résidents de plus de 60 ans, ces logements garantissent une "indépendance" de vie comme celle du domicile classique, dans un cadre sécurisé.

Des services à la personne sont mises à la disposition des résidents par les CCAS : restauration, gardiennage, entretien, animations...

Concert'O

… Depuis 2015, Concert'O, première résidence intergénérationnelle thématique en France et en Europe, réunit des locataires autour de la musique, avec trois espaces dédiés.

Logévie a confié à l'association Ricochet Sonore le soin d'accompagner les résidents de Concert'O. Cette structure spécialisée dans la consrtuction de projets de cohésion sociale et d'accès à la culture autour de la musique propose différentes animations : quiz musical, découvertes sonores, karaoké décalé...

Généralement situés au sein des résidences intergénérationnelles, les logements adaptés sont conçus pour favoriser le maintien à domicile. Selon les résidences, ils bénéficient d'équipements qui facilitent la vie quotidienne : douche de plain-pied, volets roulants électriques, parcours lumineux entre la chambre et le WC... A l’extérieur, les cheminements entre le bâtiment et la rue sont étudiés pour des déplacements aisés et sécurisés. La résidence, proche des commerces et services, comprend également des espaces communs de rencontres et d’échanges.

Résidences Autonomie

A la campagne ou en ville, les établissements avec services pour seniors de Logévie sont destinés aux personnes de plus de 60 ans. Vous disposez soit d’un appartement, soit d’un pavillon. La liberté, c’est le maître mot de ce concept d’habitat qui respecte votre vie privée et votre intimité. Vous pouvez profiter également à votre guise des espaces de convivialité dans lesquels sont proposés des animations et des services à la carte par les CCAS des communes…

… Un budget modéré

440 euros par mois de redevance comprenant:

- Le loyer

- Le chauffage

- L’eau

- L’entretien de la résidence

… Vous trouverez à moins de 100 mètres :

- des services de proximité : gendarmerie…

- des transports en commun …

…  Un vrai logement fonctionnel…

…de plain-pied que vous décorez à votre goût, en aménageant avec vos meubles

T1 bis comprenant:

- Une cuisine séparée

- Un espace de vie

- Une salle d’eau avec WC

- Un cellier

… Sérénité:

Présence du personnel du CCAS …  (Centre Communale d’action sociale) 5 jours sur 7

… Un service de:

- restauration dans le foyer à midi du lundi au vendredi

- possibilité de portage des repas à domicile

Des animations ont lieu toutes les semaines ou de façon ponctuelle:

- Gymnastique

- Ateliers créatifs (jardinage, cuisine…)

- Evénements : (sorties, anniversaire, noël, semaine bleue)

- Pétanque

- Association du troisième âge

… Les résidences intergénérationelles de Logévie

En 2005, Logévie livre sa première résidence intergénérationnelle.
Une petite révolution dans le monde du logement. Il s'agit de regrouper au sein d'une même résidence des seniors autonomes et des personnes actives, favorisant ainsi les occasions de rencontres entre elles.

Concrètement, le rez-de-chausée de ces résidences a été conçu et adapté pour les seniors alors que le premier étage est attribué à des locataires seuls, en couple ou en famille.

Des critères très étudiés
Les projets intergénérationnels répondent à des critères bien prévis.
- Le premier porte sur l'implantation géographique de la résidence. Celle-ci doit, idéalement, se situer près d'un centre-bourg ou à proximité des commerces et des services.
- Le second concerne la dimension de la résidence, de petite taille de préférence, pour faciliter les liens de voisinage.
- Enfin, l'architecture de ces résidences a été pensée pour faciliter au maximum les lieux de rencontre, tout en respectant l'intimité de chacun.

… L'intergénérationnel, nouvelle génération
En 2015, Logévie va plus loin et livre à Bordeaux sur les Bassins à flot sa première résidence intergénérationnelle thématique, Concert'O. 
Dédiée à la musique, cette résidence d'un nouveau genre propose 52 logements dont 24 pour les seniors, et 3 salles de musique. 

… Le Hameau de la Bassane est une résidence intergénérationnelle de 13 logements répondant aux besoins des seniors comme des familles. Cette résidence, construite en 2010, accueille des seniors au sein de logements adaptés ainsi que des locataires plus jeunes, dont des familles, dans des logements traditionnels…

Zoom sur les logements seniors

4 logements adaptés aux seniors
– T2 de 52 m²
– Loyer moyen : environ 355 euros – charges comprises
– Habilités à l’aide sociale au logement

Des logements adaptés pour le maintien à domicile

L’organisation des pièces a été spécifiquement pensée afin de faciliter et sécuriser les déplacements. De même, les équipements ont été étudiés dans le détail afin de faciliter les gestes de la vie quotidienne. Le logement offre ainsi un niveau de sécurité renforcé, de jour comme de nuit

… Favoriser le maintien à domicile des seniors en les aidant à conserver leur autonomie ne se limite pas à proposer un habitat adapté. Les parties communes et les abords de la résidence sont aménagés pour réduire les obstacles et les risques de chute, les espaces extérieurs favorisent les échanges entre générations et les commerces et les services sont à proximité immédiate…

Uma proximidade indicada até 500m.

4.13. - 2015 - Case study report MIII 2015

Fontes diretas e autorias:

Getting HAPPI - A review of the winning 2015 design awards

Written for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network by David Birkbeck and Lubaina Mirza, Design for Homes

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

However you try to sweeten the message, the 2009 HAPPI report1 warned that most people with choice would choose not to move to the homes targeted at them. Beyond the default to small inflexible flats with a lack of storage, developments needed to move on from tired communal amenity and provide facilities for meals and recreation of the kind the “boomers” would expect as they began to retire.

Atenção: o que acabou de ser referido e sublinhado  é muito importante se quisermos que as intervenções do PHAI3C sejam realmente desejadas!

The 10 key HAPPI design principles^:

- Generous internal space standards•

- Plenty of natural light in the home and in circulation spaces•

- Balconies and outdoor space, avoiding internal corridors and single-aspect flats

- Adaptability and ‘care aware’ design which is ready for • emerging telecare and telehealthcare technologies

- Circulation spaces that encourage interaction and avoid an • ‘institutional feel’

- Shared facilities and community ‘hubs’ where these are lacking • in the neighbourhood

- Plants, trees, and the natural environment

- High levels of energy efficiency, with good ventilation to avoid overheating

- Extra storage for belongings and bicycles•

- Shared external areas such as ‘home zones’ that give priority  to pedestrians

O que acabou de ser referido deve ser transposto para as conclusões práticas dos conjuntos PHAI3C.

The focus of each scheme is on how buildings present themselves as bright additions to the general housing stock rather than how they function as secure and sealed apartment buildings. Though they are all designed to function for the HAPPI generation, the design emphasis is on the approach to home rather than age group.

In denser neighbourhoods, ‘senior living’ is going highrise, with landscaped podium gardens providing secure communal amenity…

… We’ve moved on from the clichés of ‘age appropriate’ and care-dependant retirement housing, and there is a bold new freshness to the lifestyle concepts driving architecture and support services – whether in historic towns or inner city neighbourhoods.

People of all ages expect new homes to be stylish, convenient and efficient; marrying spacious and adaptable layouts with good light and ventilation, and opportunities for walking, shopping, a thriving social life, and enjoyment of the outdoors…

… At the time of writing, the influential All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People chaired by Lord Best has established a new inquiry, ‘HAPPI3: Making Retirement Living A Positive Choice’. Due to report in May 2016, HAPPI3 is seeking out examples of best and innovative practice, exploring different service options and advocating for improvement in standards and practice in the management of retirement properties.

References/Useful publications

Wood C (2013) Top of the Ladder, DEMOS

Best R and Porteus J (2012) Housing our Ageing Population: Plan for Implementation (HAPPI 2), APPG Housing and Care for Older People

Housing Design Awards website: www.hdawards.org

Homes and Communities Agency (2009) Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation. HCA

Housing LIN ‘Design Hub’ HAPPI webpages:

www.housinglin.org.uk/Topics/browse/Design_building/HAPPI

Mansfield L et al (2014) Converting to HAPPI at St. Bede’s, Bedford, Housing Learning and Improvement Case Study No.100. Housing LIN

Julga-se que mais do que algo muito novo é agarrar no que de melhor se fez em HCC entre nós, rever os dados de projecto específicos, privilegiando tipologias mais pequenas e diversificadas, e juntar serviços comuns; considerando um leque tipológico reduzido mas essencial e estimulante.

4.14. - 2014 - Hazel Court

Fontes diretas e autoria:

HLIN Case Study CS 95

Ensuring Extra Care is Part of the Community, not a Community Apart

Written for the Housing Learning & Improvement Network (HLIN) by

Barry Miles, Older Person Services’ Manager, and

Pamela Williams, Community Activity Coordinator, at Family Housing Association (Wales Ltd)

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

… has over 160 tenants living in 120 apartments set over three blocks [cerca de 40 cada], with the highest block covering four floors.

This includes one apartment utilised by Social Services for respite, with another offering specialist care and support to three ladies with mental health support needs.

A further 43 apartments will be built on the north of the site with the addition of a second guest suite.

Notar o agrupamento por conjuntos de cerca de 40 unidades.

… The scheme has a wide range of communal facilities, all available for hire, which are widely used by both tenants and the wider community. These include:

- Gym Therapy Room

- Exercise Room

- Community Hall

- Training / Meeting Room

- Craft and Hobbies Room

- Library / IT Suite

- Restaurant

- Shop

- Hairdressing Salon

- Laundry

- Fully-fitted Assisted Bathroom

Parece muito importante que os espaços comuns sejam realmente à escala da intervenção – por exemplo no caso do conjunto para mulheres idosas que foi atrás abordado, os espaços comuns correspondem a um fogo sem ser dos maiores (num conjunto de 25 fogos) -; é importante também a questão da multifuncionalidade espacial (ex., espaços de exercício serem também de reuniões e quem sabe mesmo a garagem poder servir para festas alargadas, desde que a garagem seja bem planeada em termos luz natural por exemplo).

On-site staff employed by Family Housing provide a range of services, including:

- Domiciliary care

- Tenancy support

- Estates / grounds maintenance services

- Communal cleaning service

- Handy person service

- Personal cleaning service

- Reception and administration service

- Scheme management

Key Learning Points

- The benefits from having a Community Activities Co-ordinator have proved invaluable.

- Appreciating all stakeholder groups as partners is vital to ownership of the development by both tenants and the local community.

- Interior design - ensuring the scheme lent itself to engaging with the local community but also felt safe and secure for tenants.

- Regular partnership meetings ensured Hazel Court fulfilled its promise to become a key communal facility in the area.

- Develop a partnership approach with tenants at an early stage (cooperativa)

4.15. - 2013 - DFAR12 Insights and Innovations

Havendo, por exemplo, (i) um Prémio de ideias e (ii) outro de fogos adaptáveis de baixa tipologia; (iii) haver também um outro de soluções existentes para habitação de idosos humanizadas e inovadoras – julga-se que desta forma seria possível localizar e retirar muitas boas ideias e identificar os principais bloqueios e problemas – sendo a avaliação feita de forma prática e fundamentada.

Fontes e principal autoria:

Emily Chmielewski, Perkins Eastman Research Collaborative

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

In the summer of 2013, the American Institute of Architect’s Design for Aging Knowledge Community (DFA) conducted its 12th biennial Design for Aging Review design competition (DFAR12). In total, there were 64 submissions, 34 of which were recognized by the jury for an award or publication. Eleven projects received an award of merit; 7 projects were given a citation award; and 16 projects were recognized for publication within this book.

… Using Research in the Design Process

… Of those that conducted research (formally or informally) during the design process: 89% incorporated building occupant feedback, from existing and / or prospective users; 22% created 3D views or computer models to better explore the proposed design; 22% made observations of existing spaces to understand operational issues and / or building users’ needs, desires, and expectations; 19% made use of existing data (i.e., post-occupancy evaluation findings or benchmark data); 7% built full-scale mock-ups so that design details and actual layout could be assessed prior to construction; 4% performed sun-angle computer modeling to better understand how daylight could permeate the building; and 4% piloted a built environment by building a case study setting and allowing it to function, while recording associated outcomes to inform the final design and replication of the setting. In Their Own Words.

Trata-se de matéria que se considera generalizável e fundamental nesta temática.

Em seguida apontam-se alguns aspetos relativos a soluções específicas e registadas.

Moorings Park

“A digital virtual tour was created in great detail during the design process, not after, to further vet the design and provide the design team, stakeholders, residents, and operational management a clear picture of the space qualities … [The] clinic exam room was mocked-up full scale and then revised upon user input from physician and nurses.”

Rose Villa Pocket Neighborhoods & Main Street

“The design team conducted 5 separate focus groups comprised of senior management, staff members, independent living residents, adult children of residents, and family members.

Each group responded to a series of open-ended questions regarding existing facilities and programs, as well as potential areas of improvement.”

Collaborative Designing

… Of those projects that used a collaborative process, 92% incorporated feedback from existing and / or prospective building occupants. Forty-two percent worked with the client / owner’s senior management team during the design process. Nineteen percent tapped into the expertise of another organization, ...

Laclede Groves

“The project commenced with [a] strategic planning workshop that was structured to help the client determine strategic ways to develop new opportunities and to create, reposition, and reinvent existing services and environments for seniors. Meetings engaged executive teams, board members, and key staff in a process that integrates forward-thinking design, thoughtful economic analysis, and thorough market assessment to create sustainable strategies.”

Rydal Park Repositioning

Designing was an “interactive team process involving all stakeholders including administration, architect, development consultant, staff, selected residents, resident committees, and zoning and code officials.”

Orchard Cove

“Specifically focused resident committees were formulated by the Orchard Cove administration with the sole purpose of getting [the] participation of respected individuals who had been acknowledged as fair and well informed people, best suited to represent the community in their respective areas of expertise.

The committees included: library, dining, acoustics, fitness / wellness, interior design, and artwork…”

Good Shepherd Cottage, Santa Teresita, Inc.

“The building provides a vibrant and engaging lifestyle by focusing on direct access to social areas that have abundant natural light and multiple connections to the outdoors … The patios and outdoor gardens on the first floor become places for residents to interact. The second floor has accessible common decks with view of the San Gabriel Mountains.”…

White Oak Cottages at Fox Hill Village

“Natural light is always important in any residential project, but takes on a higher level of importance for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s, and is often a struggle on projects employing the Green House® and small house models because of the relatively high ratio of resident rooms to commons…

Contemporary vs. Traditional Interior Aesthetics: What “Home” Looks Like Today

It is now just as common to find a senior living community with a contemporary interior aesthetic, as opposed to a traditional setting, which was the standard not too long ago. Fifty-six percent of the jury-recognized DFAR12 projects were classified as having a contemporary interior aesthetic; 44% had a traditional interior aesthetic.

A contemporary interior aesthetic may be recognized by such features as clean lines, geometric patterns, and minimal details. A traditional interior aesthetic, on the other hand, is more likely to include crown and base molding, rolled arm furniture, pleated curtains, and more ornate details and patterns…

Household Model and Person-Centered Care

Because building occupants’ mental, social, emotional, and physical wellbeing— and, therefore, quality of life—are affected by operational and design decisions, it is important to provide person-centered care and create physical environments that empower people… Fifty percent of the jury-recognized DFAR12 submissions described a physical environment that supports person-centered care and / or includes a Household in the project…

Based on plan analysis, 11 of the jury-recognized DFAR12 submissions include a Household, typically defined as …  private residential bedrooms organized around a shared living / dining / kitchen area. Five additional projects were classified as “Neighborhoods,” where 2–3 groups of eight to 8–12 private residential bedrooms are organized around a shared living / dining / kitchen area.

In terms of the size of the Households, …  The overall average* square footage per resident was 763 [71m2], with a range* of 484–996 square feet per person.

… Several DFAR12 projects, like The Deupree House and Nursing Cottages, are reworking the layout of the Household for a better hierarchy of public-to-private spaces. Bedrooms no longer open into common areas, like living or dining rooms.

Mas a própria hierarquização está em discussão e haverá quem prefira uma relação mais direta entre o seu mundo e o comum, o que poderá ser conseguido de modo “matizado” (protegido) por exemplo através de diferentes níveis e posições das entradas dos fogos relativamente a diversos tipos de espaços comuns – imagina-se por exemplo o que poderá ser uma posição de alguns acessos a fogos em 1.º andar sobre zona com duplo pé direito sobre zona comum.

… Eighty-two percent of jury-recognized DFAR12 projects described spaces where learning, meetings, activities, and hobbies occur. These learning / activity spaces included: large multi-purpose rooms, dedicated conference / meeting spaces, library / information resource centers, art studios / craft rooms, dedicated classroom / learning spaces; religious / spiritual / meditative spaces; and small-scale cinema / media rooms. Several projects also described Household-like community / activity spaces.

A existência de espaços para atividades comuns “específicas” e não “apenas comuns” parece ser muito importante – ainda que multifuncionais e multiusáveis por exemplo pela vizinhança (através de parcerias específicas)

Sixty-five percent of jury-recognized DFAR12 projects described fitness / wellness amenities, including: dedicated fitness equipment rooms, dedicated exercise classrooms, dedicated rehab / therapy gyms, swimming pools / aquatics facilities, salons, and massage / aromatherapy rooms.

… Two projects stood out for the innovative way they are delivering services to

the greater community:

- “The cafes serve as neighborhood based administrative outposts as well as senior services centers. Along with the social component of the cafe, the senior services provided include computer classes, medical assistance, financial counseling, and exercise classes.”

The cafes encourage healthy eating, socialization, and are a place to find support so that people who are aging-in-place can remain in their homes.

Marian’s House is a guesthouse for people with dementia who are living at home with a caregiver. The building is embedded in an existing residential neighborhood and looks like any other house along the street. However, it offers a dementia day center, an on-site caregiver’s suite, and several bedrooms that allow for respite care (or, when not in use for overnight stays by people with dementia, can act as guest bedrooms for the caregiver’s suite).

In addition to allowing for one-on-one interaction and specialized group activities, the spaces in Marian’s House also double as an after-hours resource center, providing training and support for family caregivers.

… When senior living projects provide spaces that encourage residents to leave their private homes and interact with others, it encourages relationships to form and promotes a sense of community. Social interactions among residents help minimize isolation, improve quality of life, and even foster a sense of security as residents look out for each other. In fact, research has shown that social activities and productive engagement are as influential to elder survival as physical fitness activities.

A sense of community is promoted by common spaces that encourage socialization—both informal / spontaneous social interaction spaces (e.g., residents running into each other in the lobby or at the mailboxes), as well as formal / planned social interaction spaces (e.g., the interactions that occur in an activity room or theater). Also described were communal dining venues, wide hallways with places to sit and chat, spaces that encourage and support visitors, and providing a circulation system that promotes socialization, with short walking distances and ease of access to common areas to encourage use.

… To help residents hear one another in the cafes “the acoustic environment was improved to eliminate the echoes and background noise that dominates the larger regional centers.” In addition to providing good acoustics that allow for conversations, “a variety of seating options were included on the periphery for those preferring to talk with staff at the lunch counters or observe from a distance,” thereby recognizing people’s varying needs for interaction versus privacy outside one’s home.

Rose Villa Pocket Neighborhoods & Main Street

“Creating a smaller ‘community within a community’ resulted in the introduction of pocket neighborhoods. Each pocket neighborhood consists of 7 cottage homes organized around an intimate garden setting that promotes a close-knit sense of community and neighborliness through an increased level of contact.

Flexibility

Twenty-one percent of the jury-recognized DFAR12 projects described ways in which their submission incorporated built-in flexibility—a new theme (not seen to a great extent in the analysis for DFAR11).

Projects described how they were designed to: support aging-in-place, with features such as extra wall blocking in shower areas for future grab bar installation; accommodate different levels of care in one setting for if / when the market shifts (e.g., switching from Assisted Living to Skilled Nursing); allow for an easy remodel that would combine two smaller residential units into one larger unit, or to have one larger unit split into two smaller units to address market demand; offer flexible commons spaces that serve different users / purposes depending on the time of day and on the program / building occupants’ needs; and consider the future expansion of the project, minimizing the need for moving or replacing major equipment and / or systems.

… Taking the idea of flexibility to a new level, Moorings Park offers Independent Living apartments that “were designed to be completely customized by the owner—essentially blank slates to be configured and finished to suit the resident’s lifestyle.” Apartments can be personalized to accommodate such features as a large space for entertaining guests, or a high-end kitchen for cooking. An artist can devote floor area to a studio; an athlete can have space for exercising. Many options abound and residents are able to “work backwards from their price point, matching lifestyle and entrance fee with square footage and interior design choices.”

Matéria muito importante para idosos e para jovens

Asbury Place at Arbor Acres

The project built in “flexibility so that the two-bedroom units could be converted into a studio and one-bedroom unit in the future if needed.”

Marian’s House

- “Some [of the] daycare spaces are designed [to] double as an evening resource center for classes and discussion groups. Media and technology have been integrated for participant use and for evening presentations and training videos / presentations.

- There is [also] flexibility of use with two respite bedrooms, which can be open to either the caregiver as private guest rooms or open to the daycare portion of the home when residents stay over.”

The Mather

“We have unique ‘flex’ spaces that can be sub-divided—using moveable glass partitions with curtains or large sliding doors—to serve as meeting venues, private dining rooms or the location of a bridge tournament or a game of Mahjong.”

4.16. - 2013 - The Design Perspective: HAPPI principles in later life

Fontes diretas e autorias:

Visitas HAPPI october-wg1-prp-design.pdf

Jenny Buterchi, Coordenação

Salienta-se que este documento tem um carácter muito prático, está bem ilustrado e é considerado de grande importância para consultas eventuais Estudos de caso europeus – bem ilustrados vale muito a pena ver.

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a referida consulta direta do documento.

Nos T1 + com 72 m2 existe uma zona multifuncional encerrável junto a sala.

HAPPI2 launched at the end of 2012 and details what has been achieved already and best recommendations …:

- Generous/ Flexible Space Standards

- Natural light (inc circulation spaces)

- Avoidance of internal corridors and single aspect dwellings for light and ventilation

- ‘Care ready’ homes to accommodate emerging technologies

- Circulation that avoids institutionalisation and encourages interaction

- Lively multi-purpose social spaces that link with the community

- Engagement with the street

- Energy efficient ‘green’ buildings

- Adequate storage inside and outside home

- Homezone design of outside spaces with pedestrian priority

Stuttgart HAPPI Study Tour – November 2012

Space Planning and Flexibility

Exemplo com 80m2 para T1 +

Flexibility and Open Plan Living

- Offers better accessibility for those with mobility impairments – less doors!

- Suits current preference for open plan spaces for ultimate flexibility and connectivity between spaces

- Kitchen is now an important social space rather than a ‘working space’

Realmente o “plano livre” é excelente para “condicionados”, mas talvez como opção.

Private External Amenity

- Good size for wheelchair accessibility and furniture

- Use of sliding/glazed screens or winter gardens to maximise use all year round

Caso de importante e excelente fogo T1 com inúmeras microzonas funcionais e ambientais.

4.17. - 2013 - Assisted Living Platform, The Long Term Care Revolution: …  innovatory models to support older people with disabilities in the Netherlands

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

V HLIN-Case-Study-Netherlands.pdf

HLIN CS 76

Written by Anthea Tinker, Jay Ginn and Eloi Ribe at the Institute of Gerontology, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King’s College London for the Technology Strategy Board

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Innovations for older people with modest long term care needs

Older disabled people tend to resist increased dependence on their personal networks and to avoid seeking alternative help despite need for it. They wish to preserve their autonomy and are also aware of policy rhetoric urging self-reliance (Grootegoed & van Dijk, 2012). Consistent with the aim to empower older people and to promote independence, a number of initiatives has developed in the Netherlands to help those with relatively modest care needs to continue living in their own homes as long as possible. These include telecare services, assistive technologies, Smart Homes, internet video links, Apartments for Life and co-housing and care villages.

Telecare and telehealth offer remote monitoring of individuals’ health and needs, avoiding the need for them to visit their doctors. Use has increased since the early 2000s (Botsis & Hartvigsen, 2008) and this technology is seen as cost effective in many countries. …

Internet use helps older people to keep in contact with family and friends who do not live nearby, providing a vital connection with the world, especially for those with physical disabilities. The City of Almere took this further, investing in an extensive high-speed broadband network, the ‘Versilvering’ programme, in 2009. The aim is to overcome the constraints of location and mobility, so increasing the integration of the older population and also boosting economic growth. The project to provide video-enabled services was planned with the cooperation of the Internet Business Solutions Group, a community welfare group, a theatre with cultural centre, Almere Breed Community TV and service providers BT and UNET…

Smart Homes can meet a variety of needs, including through use of assistive technologies. The latter can be defined as ‘any device or system that allows an individual to perform a task they would otherwise be unable to do or increases the ease and safety with which the task can be performed’. This can promote growing old in good health and maintaining independence. In the Netherlands, devices include alarms, grab rails, level thresholds, raised seats on toilets, raised beds, height-adjustable work surfaces and stair lifts that cope even with winding staircases, something not yet achieved in the UK (Tinker, McCreadie, & Lansley, 2003). Smart technology may include a network of sensors and cameras distributed strategically in the house…

Apartments for Life (A4L) were first built in Rotterdam in the 1990s by the non-profit Humanitas Foundation. They are designed as ‘age proof’ apartments that can be adapted as disabilities develop. Initially three complexes were built, with 350 apartments, but there are now 15 complexes with 1,700 apartments housing an estimated 2,500 individuals (Humanitas Foundation, 2012). The apartments are available to couples as well as individuals and residents can organise whatever care provision they need. Apartments may be purchased or rented and in the 195 apartments of Humanitas-Bergweg the rent is subsidised…

Co-housing (centraalwonen). This movement started in the 1960s, mainly founded by young people, and the number of schemes has increased since then. Each household has the normal rooms but shares facilities such as laundries, meeting places, hobby rooms, workshops and garden space.

Schemes usually have 30 to 70 households, sometimes in self-managing clusters. Most are rented from a housing cooperative but some are owner-occupied (Bakker, 2009).

In the 1980s, communities for seniors, ‘living groups of the elderly’ were developed, to meet the needs of the growing proportion of the population aged over 50. These are supported by local government as they are expected to reduce care costs, but they are started by interested individuals and couples…

This author notes that individuals need to be able to cope with the conflicts that sometimes arise in making democratic decisions and negotiating on the basis of equality, co-operation and a sense of responsibility; there are no leaders. The reward is a sense of belonging, reciprocity and learning from others.

Members value this form of living for its warmth and companionability (gezelligheid), social interaction and mutual support. Shared meals are rare but members act as friendly neighbours. Some older people choose a mixed-age community, others an age-based one. An age range from 55 to over 90 years allows natural renewal to take place, with younger and more able members providing help for the most disabled. ..

Care Cooperative village - Hoogeloon. In 2005, residents built on a traditional model of the farm cooperative and organised a care cooperative – now with 200 members including volunteers, paid coordinators and professional healthcare staff. The aim was to meet older people’s need for health and social care in their own village, instead of having to travel to a town.  An ex-care home director provided necessary know-how and contacts. 

Volunteers take part …  to cook meals for older disabled residents, provide other domestic help required and transport when necessary…  Staff are recruited locally so that they can provide a rapid response in emergencies. Garden maintenance is done by workers in sheltered employment…

Innovations for people with intensive long term care needs

In the UK, residential care is widely dreaded by older people; seven out of ten said they were ‘scared’ at the thought of going into a care home, no doubt influenced by a number of recent scandals highlighting abuse and neglect.

… For those with dementia, care in institutions is described as ‘poor’ by the UK Alzheimer’s Society (Hunt, 2013). However, the Netherlands has examples of residential homes that are carefully designed to offer a more home-like, normal and enjoyable life. Innovative residential complexes designed to prolong independent living, while ensuring 24-hour care is available, are outlined below.

Será importante considerar que a prestação de cuidados em ambiente doméstico será talvez uma atividade de mão de obra intensiva praticável por muitas pessaoas não especializadas; embora seja essencial a existência de quadros de apoio e informação, formação etc.

WiekslagKrabbelaan. This scheme is described as a satellite nursing home, designed for dementia care in an environment that is familiar, enabling, ‘home-like’ and secure; the home is connected to its neighbourhood and promotes interaction with the wider community. Each household has its own front door, private bedrooms each of 25 square metres with a basin, one bathroom and a shared living area with kitchen, dining and sitting…

The care focus is on ‘adding life to the days’ of residents.

Schoolchildren aged 15-19 work with staff after school until 7pm; they may help prepare dinner, stay to eat with residents and get them ready for the evening, providing some intergenerational mingling.

Family members of former residents often act as volunteers and more are being sought, to strengthen links with the neighbourhood…

Hogeweyk village in Weesp, near Amsterdam, is designed for individuals with dementia who can no longer live independently in their own home. Care is available 24 hours, seven days a week. The whole range of dementia is catered for, including the mildly impaired and largely autonomous, those who are moderately or severely cognitively impaired and need professional supervision on a daily basis and also those who are bed-bound.

The aim is to replicate daily life in a village of households, thus making residents as comfortable as possible and enabling them ‘to continue to live in the manner to which they were accustomed prior the onset of dementia’ (Notter, Spijker, & Stomp, 2004, p. 449).

To that end, they have created seven different life styles within the village as ‘homes within homes’. Each home is planned so as to reflect a particular set of social circumstances:

- ‘Het Gooi’for well-off residents attaching importance to etiquette and appearance;

- Culturel, for those with interests in art and other culture;

- Amsterdamse for city dwellers;

- Indische for those with an Indonesian background;

- Christelijke for practising Christians;

- Ambachtelijke for those who had a skilled trade; and

- Huiselijke for those whose focus had been family caring and domestic life.

Este tipo de “especialização” doméstica tem de se basear numa importante adaptabilidade básica dos fogos e na sua diversificação.

… Planning and design followed the philosophy of providing normality, with as much independence as possible in a safe, home-like setting but with opportunities for interactions, activities, outdoor leisure and being part of a neighbourhood. A mix of accommodation types, care need levels and facilities allows for choice and change, as well as for maintaining connections with family and friends.

The motive of maximising profit has been absent or secondary. This contrasts with some corporate-owned care home chains in the UK, which have treated the homes as assets for trading in international markets, to the detriment of the residents’ security. Other UK housing-with-care schemes, such as those run by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, have a more responsible and caring philosophy.

The potential is clear for local enterprises to provide caring services in the UK in a similar way to those in the Netherlands operating in partnership with a housing association or care cooperative village…

4.18. - 2012 – Sobre os Maggie Centers

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

What makes an environment healing?

Users and designer about the Maggie’s Centre London

M. Annemans1,2, Ch. Van Audenhove3, H. Vermolen2, and A. Heylighen1,

Proceedings of 8th International Design and Emotion Conference London 2012 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 11-14 September 2012 Edited by J. Brassett, J. McDonnell & M. Malpass

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… This analysis enables us to start uncovering the meaning of a healing environment. At Maggie’s London the combination of a well thought architectural brief, an engaged architect, and suiting client seem to form the base of a successful building that is not only designed as healing but is also experienced as such by its daily users.

… There is an intimate relationship between our emotions and the things around us," Peter Zumthor (2010) writes. Whether an environment works healing or not is often closely related to the emotional experience that is generated by it. Which elements or aspects are responsible for this is investigated based on the case of the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in London. The insight, as expressed by Zumthor, is rather recent. Whereas early research about the relationship between the built environment and its effect on health focuses largely on medical outcomes (Rubin & Center for Health Design. 1998)(Ulrich e.a. 2004), more recently influence on the mental welfare is being recognized. As the World Health Organization states: "Health is a state of optimal physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." Based on this definition we want to gain insight in the spatial experience of patients and provide architects with sufficient information to design wholesome hospital environments.

… Charles Jencks himself, co-founder of the Maggie’s Centres, is the first one to contradict the strictly clinical effect of architecture (Jencks 2006). Still, he argues the centres can definitely make a difference, for five reasons (Jencks & Heathcote 2010). Many of these reasons involve social support. Cancer caring centres can alleviate the death sentence, by negating the negative effect of receiving one. Training patients in stress management reduces the impairment of stress on the immune system. Positive feelings, enhanced by the building and complementary therapies, may contribute to longevity. And, an extended shared knowledge about possible new treatments or therapies can provide users of the Maggie’s Centres with informed opinions, which may make a difference over time. Finally the centres can also work like a placebo, they work because they operate on the beliefs of patients…

… The Maggie’s Centres and the way they are designed should raise your spirits, be safe and welcoming, but not too cosy and increase the sense of connectedness between people...

To reach this goal, architects are chosen of which the organization thinks that they will rise to the challenge of making spaces that help the people using the buildings to cope. To do so, the architect should go beyond preconceived ideas...

4.19. - 2011 Casos – Le Port, La Réunion 2011 integração de variadas tipol

Fontes e autorias respetivas :

Résidence-services du Mail de l’Océan,

PUCA, Logement design pour tous

Prisca AURE (Le Port) : prisca.aure@ville-port.re

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… Le terrain identifi é a une superfi cie de 1 643 m2 et une capacité constructive de 4 800 m2 de SHON en R+4 ; ce qui équivaut à environ 75 petits appartements (T2) avec deux niveaux de soussol pour des stationnements. Le rez-de-chaussée accueillerait les services. L’objectif de l’opération est de proposer une offre de logements pour la population locale âgée et à mobilité réduite, à revenus modestes, en centre-ville. Cette résidence-services non médicalisée s’appuiera sur un plan global « gérontologie et accessibilité » coordonné par le CCAS et sur des opérateurs de services de proximité et à la personne, externalisés par rapport à l’opération.

Il s’agira d’en faire une résidence 100% accessible, alliant domotique et « géron-technologie » afi n de maintenir des personnes âgées ou des personnes à mobilité réduite, y compris dépendantes, à domicile. Une attention particulière sera portée à la conception du bâtiment (qui devra inclure la dimension de qualité environnementale et répondre au référentiel PERENE), aux qualités d’usage des logements, des espaces de transition entre extérieur et intérieur (privés et publics) et des espaces de convivialité. La création d’emploi via le développement de services de proximité et de services à la personne est un enjeu majeur du projet.

4.20. – 2010 – (coop) SeniorForum: A whole concept (com custos)

Solutions to Global Aging - World Habitat Finalista dos World Habitat Awards 2010

Mirum AB is a private limited liability company, registered in 2008 for the purpose of designing and constructing housing for elderly people (and associated activities).

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… The SeniorForum concept for modern living for elderly people was developed as a result of national and European research programmes. The concept involves the provision of affordable accommodation and care for elderly people within a cooperative housing association that all elderly persons in a town are entitled to join. It provides both a residential complex for those who need it and a range of services and social facilities for those who wish to continue living in their own homes.

… Three main models have been developed – these are Bonus (for larger communities with cooperative associations of up to 200 members), Habitat (for small communities with cooperative associations of between 50 and 100 members) and Focus which provides for those who need full-time nursing care.

The construction cost is €1,800 – €2,400/m2 (US$2,600 – US$3,500/m2) of dwelling area, including 5-10 m2 of common area. The construction is to be financed by Swedish credit institutions during the construction phase, and the final financing met the cooperative association’s members (25 per cent to 30 per cent) and the credit institution (70 per cent to 75 per cent). While costs are high due to the very high energy and care standards in Sweden, expenditure levels are kept more affordable by the cooperative association’s members financing a part of the project themselves, often by selling their own house or apartment.

The cooperative housing associations own the residential complexes with each member depositing a sum of between €25,000 (US$36,000) and €40,000 (US$58,000) if they live in the complex itself and €1,000 (US$1,450) if they live in the community and wish to access the services and social facilities. These sums are returned when they leave the cooperative. These sums deposited by the elderly people cover approximately 25 per cent of the costs, with the remainder being raised from Swedish credit institutions by the cooperative or the municipality.

This deposit is much lower than the deposit for a normal building-society flat or for normal flat ownership, which typically ranges from €80,000 (US$116,000) to €110,000 (US$159,500). The rent of €95/m2 (US$138/m2) is also much lower than corresponding private apartments, as the rent is negotiated with the residents’ cooperative association and there is no profit element involved. All members pay a monthly fee to cover the social activities organised. This fee includes the cost of one employee, who organises the various activities…

Barriers

Elderly resistance to change

The bank’s conservative vision on financial security around the project.

Transparent and well worked-out financial plans, together with the fact that all apartments will have been let before the start of construction, create the necessary security.

The trademarks Bonus and Habitat have emerged as a result of a rather new and unknown piece of legislation. It takes time before elderly people, politicians and financial institutions understand and use the advantages provided by the legislation…

4.21. - 2010 - Elderly Housing Design in Charlton, Massachusetts (Sun City)

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

A Major Qualifying Project submitted to the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science.

Andrew Abderrazzaq

Christopher Lacagnina

Derek Snow

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… There are several ways of accomplishing this task. The first two ways are for the elderly to remodel their current homes either by themselves or by the help of a contractor. The modifications are based around a “gerontologic design”. This design is the remodeling of an existing space in response to the deteriorating health of a home owner (Rosenfeld, 2008).

The third option, which pertains to our project focus, is for the elderly to move into a residence that already has the necessary modifications, but still a sense of community. As retirement communities became more popular in the United States in the 1960’s it usually meant people were forced to relocate far away from family and friends due to the lack of facilities currently in operation. Today, the number of these communities is growing and becoming more local and having to downsize from a private residence no longer requires a large travel distance or has a lack in amenities that fit the new residents’ needs.

Sun City Festival Facility

East of Phoenix, Arizona there is a 3,100 acre active-retirement home called the Sun City Festival and is considered a great place for the twentieth century retiree. Sun City Festival was created for adults, ages 55 and older, which are still considered active and assistance independent.

This community invests a large amount into the social and physical aspects of living to maintain health. This means residents have the capability to leave the complex on their own or participate in numerous activities on-site that range from grocery shopping to 18 holes of golf.

Fitness centers, such as the Sage Center that is located in the community, provide recreational use of pools and exercise rooms for clubs and classes with fitness instructors (Sun City Festival, 2009). The team project considers this type of active lifestyle and incorporates it into the design of our facility…

In Sweden there is a need to accommodate the elderly who are in the final stage of their lives. There have been substantial studies regarding the health support system in elderly homes. One such study, called Health Supportive Design in Elderly Care Homes, explored design factors and their usefulness through a series of field studies and interviews.

“According to this research, the valuable factors to support health and well-being for the elderly are as follows;

1) Community integration: In urban planning, these elderly care homes are generally places close to a residential area center or a city center. Services are often shared between residents and community members at large, consequently there is a flow of “visitors” of all ages connecting with the facility on a daily basis.

2) Homelike environment: A noteworthy aspect of Swedish elderly care homes is keeping the facility appearance as homelike as possible. The associations with home may be explored through the appearance and configuration of both the exterior and interior of the building. These homes seemed to be designed with a conscious aim to create a homelike setting.

3) Accessibility to garden and nature: The courtyard is a well developed concept in designing elderly care homes in Sweden. They are generally safe and easily accessible to the residents” (Design and Health)…

Space Standards and Layout Investigation

From Design of Assisted Living, 2007 by Victor Regnier and VNR Metric Handbook of Architectural Standards, 1979 by Patricia Tutt and David Adler, the MQP group found two general bedroom layouts and one basic general floor plan to be most helpful.

As found in Appendix A, Sections A.1 and A.2, the two general bedroom layouts are from Design of Assisted Living and contain simple rectangular rooms that have easily accessible space and sufficient area for the use of each space.

As áreas dos quartos a que se chegou foram: 12 e 16 m2

The general floor plan that was investigated, shown in Appendix A, Section A.3, also had a simple design and kept the rooms and open spaces to square and rectangular shapes.

It is designed with central usage areas for residents including sitting areas, a kitchen and dining area, a sewing room, and medical space with staff areas…

… it was decided that an initial value of 130 occupants in two buildings would be used to form an elderly community based on the information obtained at the site visit. In the preliminary design 30 percent of the occupants in the buildings, 40 residents, are to be accommodated in 20 double rooms. Since the information from the book was based on a 40 person facility and the design for our group is based on 130 occupants, certain areas were multiplied by a factor of 3.25 to accurately depict the amount of needed space…

No documento existe uma Town of Charlton Zoning Bylaw, que define as condições legais para “Senior Living Facilities” para maiores de 55

4.22. - 2009 - Homes for our old age Independent living by design CABE

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

Published in 2009 by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), based on research commissioned by the Department of Health, conducted by the Women’s Design Service and the University of the West of England.

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Older people want homes that give them independence, choice and the ability to maintain their friendships and family contacts

… In 2007 there were 1.3 million people aged 85 and over. By 2032 that is predicted to be 3.1 million

Source: Ageing and Mortality in the UK: National Statistician’s annual article on the population, Office for National Statistics, 2008, p1 tinyurl.com/6kysl3

… million pensioners are so poor they cannot afford to heat their homes, eat healthy food or replace household equipment

Source: Help the Aged website www.helptheaged.org.uk

… The number of people with dementia is set to double to 1.4 million over the next 30 years and the costs to the UK economy will go from £17 billion to £50 billion

Source: Mental Capital and Well Being: Making

the most of ourselves in the 21st century: executive summary, Foresight, part of the Government Office for Science, p32, see tinyurl.com/musgnr

… 48 per cent of those aged 65 or over say the television is their main company

… The number of people aged 75 and over living alone will increase by over 40 per cent in the next 20 years

Source: One Voice: Shaping our ageing society, Help the Aged and Age Concern, April 2009…

Uma  mistura explosiva de fragilidades etárias, risco de demências, solidão, pouco dinheiro e tudo isto num número de casos avassalador, caraterizará o futuro bem próximo.

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Issues facing commissioners and designers

Older people want buildings that enable them to stay independent and allow them contact with their friends and family.

Space is important, too. No one wants to live in isolated or unsafe parts of town and most people want access to local amenities, such as parks and shops.

Good design is vital, because it makes for a building where people are able to live how they want, and enables the delivery of home care and/or support services.

However, good home care is not just about the design of a building; it is also about the services provided within that building…

We expect buildings for social care to be successful as homes and as important resources for the local community. This means we need to consult planners, designers, social care professionals and local people, as well as residents and their friends and relatives.

See www.lifetimehomes.org.uk

Lessons from the case studies …

- Internal house design and layout needs to be flexible to accommodate changing care or support needs

- Independence and quality of life require high-quality design, management and services

- Design for social care means future-proofing the buildings we already have so that a resident knows they can remain in their home as their needs change

- Schemes need to be seen as community assets which allow residents to mix with local people but also enable them to feel their home is secure and private

- Developers and providers should talk to, and involve, residents, both before and after development and occupancy.

Seguem-se notas variadas, retiradas de um variado conjunto de casos:

 

Colliers Gardens, Bristol, Extra care housing for older people … 50 flats for older people, owned and managed by public sector

The two-bedroom accommodation is popular and the design enables people with dementia to continue living at home.

Informal communal areas have proved popular and the communal dining room is a natural hub.

The flats are on two floors in spurs branching off from either side of the main circulation area , with an informal communal seating area on the upper level.

Skylights bring daylight flooding into the building from above as well as the sides, bringing a real sense of connection between the inside and outside…However, not all the windows open and it can get stuffy.

A double-height communal lounge and dining room provides a social hub at the front of the building beside the entrance, and opens onto the communal gardens through a glazed façade.

The internal glazing to the entrance hall and arrival point allows residents to keep an eye on who is coming and going.

The scheme is used by local people who join in events organised by the Colliers Gardens social club. The building also houses a therapy room, hair salon and IT room.

The main corridor changes angle, and runs along a slight incline, making it seem more like a winding path than an institutional corridor.

Windows on both sides look out onto the gardens, which are designed in a circular pattern for people with dementia.

The use of colour coding and different textures in the internal circulation areas also help people remember where they are.

… The flats also work well for a disabled man and his wife. He is able to sleep in the second bedroom of their flat if he is having a restless night and uses a computer in the room to surf the internet…

Esta matéria dá para desenvolver, porque é bem importante

Non-residents use the main entrance but cannot get into the residential areas of the building, ensuring the privacy, safety and security of tenants…

Esta matéria dá para desenvolver, porque é bem importante

 

Lingham Court, Lambeth, London; Extra care housing for older people alongside general needs housing for sale…The 30 affordable housing flats for older people …The scheme also includes 40 flats for outright sale… The total cost was £10 million and the outright sale flats subsidized the affordable housing…

Esta matéria dá para desenvolver, porque é bem importante

A prefabricated construction with factoryassembled wall and floor panels. All flats are on the upper floors for security. Thermal insulation far exceeds building regulations levels.

The basic concept is straightforward: people have a home of their own, with their own front door, and everything else spins off this.

…  promote independence. For example, this is the reason why the lunch club operates only four days a week, to ensure that residents do not lose basic cooking skills. People are encouraged to attend …

The expansive central circulation areas of the extra care building have a somewhat empty and impersonal feel to them. In most cases, there is no evidence of residents’ presence or individuality around their front doors, and the absence of internal windows opening from flats onto the common space produces a very clear sense of separation between the private life behind the front doors, and the common life of the building. Even the roof terrace is empty of plants, because of staff concerns about potential trip hazards, especially when grandchildren are visiting.

Estas matérias dão para desenvolver, porque são bem importantez

 

Darwin Court, Southwark, London; Seventy six rented homes including flats for frail older people and a resource centre…

Edifício com diversos prémios

Although the bedrooms are fairly small, each unit has a spare room which can be used by relatives and there is a separate guest room that can be booked.

Sixteen flats were designed for frail older people from the start. Peabody accepted the architect’s proposal of designing the remaining flats as good quality, general needs housing, with level access and the potential for adaptability in future.

Esta matéria dá para desenvolver, porque é bem importante

… It is a challenge to co-ordinate the needs of the different groups that rent the spaces at low cost with the needs of the tenants. Making the café appealing to both locals and tenants has also been a problem.

It is operated by Peabody, through agency workers, but only during the week. Peabody would not build a swimming pool again as it has been hugely expensive to run, but the trust is committed to running it as a community resource…

 

Barton Mews, Barton-under-Needwood Staffordshire.  A private development of 29 extra care apartments for sale, aimed at affluent, older local buyers, or buyers with local family connections…

The housing, which extends round a courtyard, is above a doctor’s surgery and cottage hospital, with separate entry for each. The scheme offers a broad range of services, aspirational design features and accessible and adaptable flats and corridors…

Some flats bought by children stand empty because parents do not want to move in…

None of the one- and two-bedroom flats (the latter measuring 80 square metres) were allocated for wheelchair use from the outset. Barton Mews has individual bathrooms that are mainly accessible and ergonomically designed wet rooms.

There is also an assisted bathroom on each floor, equipped with the latest lifting equipment. Adaptations can easily be made to individual flats, including the installation of assistive technology beyond the basic alarm system provided.

 

Painswick Retirement Village near Stroud, Gloucestershire. A private development of 56 apartments for older people and en suite nursing care bedrooms in a rural location.

Eighteen of the apartments are designated for independent living (1x1 bed, 16x2 bed, 1x3 bed) and 38 for assisted living (32x1 bed, 6x2 bed).

The retirement village is based on a philosophy of continuing care, and residents do not need to move unless they need hospital admission. Most residents fund their own housing and care, and applicants undergo risk and health assessments.

The village aims for a population with mixed levels of care. Access to other amenities such as a supermarket or cinema means travelling to a nearby town.

It took several years to obtain planning permission, largely because the land was a greenfield site.

The 18 independent living apartments have two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a parking space. Some also have a private balcony or patio. The 38 assisted living apartments have a living room, galley kitchen and bedroom with en-suite shower room.

The price includes food and soft drinks, a laundry, a daily maid service and utilities (gas, electricity and water).

Flexible care packages can be purchased as needed…

The nursing centre has 24 beds and offers long-term and post-operative care, but not dementia care.

The village caters for people aged 55 or over with a range of care and support needs, including visual impairment, deafness, incontinence and moderate memory problems.

Richmond Villages’ on-site domiciliary care team operates 24 hours a day…

The village has a communal lounge, dining room, restaurant, laundry, guest rooms, garden, conservatory, community centre, hobby room, café, shop, hairdresser, library with internet access, gym, swimming pool and jacuzzi.

There is a small treatment room and most residents are registered with the local GP and dentist. All communal areas are accessible…

Painswick village is about 100 metres away …

 

Croftspar Springboig Avenue Glasgow. A small, specialised scheme of seven supported houses for people with dementia.

A partnership between public sector provider Cube Housing Association and Alzheimer Scotland. Cube builds housing and leases it to care providers, but does not provide care services itself. Capital funding was from Communities Scotland.

Staff are on site 24 hours a day, one on duty at night, and one sleeping over…

A group of small, individual houses around a landscaped courtyard with a warden alarm system and movement sensors in the bedrooms. The scheme is designed with level access and to maximise solar gain.

The circular layout helps people with dementia to find their way around the scheme and the small scale appeals to residents.

However, the residents do not like the open plan design of their homes and the modern bathroom furniture and underfloor heating is confusing for people with dementia.

Esta matéria dá para desenvolver, porque é bem importante e pode ser aplicada para variados outros aspetos menos correntes.

4.23. - 2006 - Designed with care: Design and neighbourhood healthcare buildings CABE

Fontes e autorias respetivas.

Published in 2006 by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE)

Researched and written by Timothy Mason.

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

Top tips for healthy buildings

A good brief, consultation and collaboration are crucial for a successful building

Good design can successfully bring together health services not previously offered in a single building …

Space and light can be used to create a calm atmosphere …

It is possible to create a robust building to hospital standards which has a humane atmosphere …

Thoughtful interior design for specific needs can create a relaxed and caring environment

Close attention to storage can make a huge difference to the qualities of space and calm …

Health buildings can be multifunctional and open to future uses …

Multiple stakeholder involvement leads to more successful outcomes ..

A high quality building and surroundings can contribute to local people making the most of their local healthcare facilities …

CABE’s key elements of good healthcare buildings - CABE’s 10 key elements;

- Good integrated design

- Public open space

- A clear plan

- A single reception point

- Circulation and waiting areas

- Materials, finishes and furnishing

- Natural light and ventilation

- Storage

- Adapting to future changes

- Out of hours community use …

4.24. - 2005 - A collection of case studies demonstrating exemplar ‘sustainable community’ projects across Europe

Fontes e autorias respetivas.

The Egan Review, Skills for Sustainable Communities’¹ defines seven components that together constitute the ‘common goal’ of a Sustainable Community.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (2004) The Egan Review – Skills for Sustainable Communities, ODPM

Site importante: https://policytransfer.metropolis.org/case-studies/city-of-tomorrow

 

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

… There is no substitute for visiting projects to experience at first hand the quality and ‘feel’ of a place, and to develop a personal understanding of how a community works. All of the case studies presented here have been visited by the author, and in many cases, meetings have been held with local residents, designers and key-decision makers involved in the creation of a ‘Sustainable Community’…

… vibrant harmonious and inclusive communities.

A sense of community identity and belonging.

Tolerance, respect and engagement with people from different cultures, backgrounds and beliefs.

Friendly, co-operative and helpful behaviour in neighbourhoods.

Opportunities for cultural, leisure, community, sport and other activities.

Low levels of crime and anti-social behaviour with visible and effective and community-friendly policing…

All people are socially included and have similar life opportunities…

…  effective and inclusive participation, representation and leadership.

Strategic, visionary, representative, accountable governance systems that enable inclusive, active and effective participation by individuals and organisations.

Strong, informed and effective leadership and partnerships that lead by example (e.g. government, business, community).

Strong, inclusive, community and voluntary sector (e.g. resident’s associations, neighbourhood watch).

A sense of civic values, responsibilities and pride.

Continuous improvement through effective delivery, monitoring and feedback at all levels…

….  providing places for people to live in an environmentally-friendly way.

Efficient use of resources now and in the future in the built environment and service provision (e.g. energy efficiency, land, water resources, flood defence, waste minimisation etc.).

Living in a way that minimises the negative environmental impact and enhances the positive impact (e.g. recycling, walking, cycling).

Protecting and improving natural resources and biodiversity (e.g. air quality, noise, water quality).

Having due regard for the needs of future generations in current decisions and actions…

..  a quality built and natural environment.

Creating a sense of place (e.g. a place with a positive ‘feeling’ for people, and local distinctiveness).

Well-maintained, local, user-friendly public and green spaces with facilities for everyone including children and older people.

Sufficient range, diversity and affordability of housing within a balanced housing market.

A high-quality, well-designed built environment of appropriate size, scale, density, design and layout that complements the distinctive local character of the community.

High quality, mixed-use, durable, flexible and adaptable buildings…

… good transport services and communication linking people to jobs, schools, health and other services.

Transport facilities, including public transport, that help people travel within and between communities.

Facilities to encourage safe local walking and cycling.

Accessible and appropriate local parking facilities.

Widely available and effective telecommunications and internet access…

… a flourishing and diverse local economy.

A wide range of jobs and training opportunities.

Sufficient land and buildings to support economic prosperity and change.

Dynamic job and business creation.

A strong business community with links into the wider economy…

… a full range of appropriate, accessible public, private, community and voluntary services.

Well-educated people from well-performing local school, further and higher education and training for lifelong learning.

High quality, local health care and social services.

Provision of range of accessible, affordable public, community, voluntary and private services (e.g. retail, food, commercial, utilities).

Services providers who think and act long term and beyond their own immediate geographical and interest boundaries…

4.25. - 2001 - ICA Housing Co-operatives Habitat II plus 5

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

Innovative Approaches to Co-operative Solutions of Housing Problems of the Poor. Case studies from member-organizations

Ed Hans Münkner, Marburg 2001

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

São apresentados casos de reabilitação de partes de povoações visando as carências habitacionais existentes em termos de grupos étnicos e/ou etários e simultaneamente a revitalização urbana local utilizando as valências participativas e organizacionais de cooperativas pois trata-se de matéria extremamente sensível e importante.

Entre os vários exemplos apresentados destacam-se, em termos muito práticos de projecto de espaços privados:

- Diversas formas de “dosear a ligação” entre espaços comuns e privados, preparando a “passagem” de variadas formas, enquanto do lado doméstico se desenvolvem ao máximo as condições de espaciosidade, atratividade e apropriação – no limite quase como um hotel extremamente “doméstico”.

- Apostar numa clara espaciosidade, mesmo nas tipologias mais pequenas, onde, por exemplo, num grande T0 podem existir verdadeiras salas estruturadas num amplo leque de microzonas; transformando-o num verdadeiro “estúdio”.

- e avançando para os espaços comuns importará aplicar uma idêntica filosofia de espaciosidade, multifuncionalidade, microzonagem e domesticidade.

4.26. - 1974 - De Drie Hoven elderly housing, Amsterdam

Fontes e autorias respetivas:

De Drie Hoven eld erly housing, Amsterdam (1964-1974), projecto de Herman Hertzberger

Louis Bouwmeesterstraat 377, 1065 NS Amsterdam. Gross foor area 3.300 m2; Client Nederlandse Centrale voor Huisvesting van Bejaarden (NCHB)

 

Apontam-se, em seguida, sob a forma de citações a itálico, retiradas do referido documento, aspetos julgados de grande interesse, mas que não substituem a consulta direta do documento.

The building, intended for physically and mentally challenged people, consists of 55 dwellings for couples, housing units for 190 people and a nursing home with 250 beds… [cerca de 500 pessoas no total]

The requirements for the di􀃗erent sections of the building are incorporated into a common building order; a system of columns, beams and 􀃓oors, whereby, in a 􀃒xed and consistently applied module, a large amount of freedom in the utilisation of space arises.

It is assumed that the regulating power of the basic structure will be great enough to enable the incorporation of subsequent additions, however chaotic, without its unity being severely disturbed. The structure can be regarded as incomplete in another respect as well, namely in the colourless and un􀃒nished appearance of the materials used. It is hoped that this will stimulate the residents into exerting their in􀃓ence in shaping the environment to their liking…

Muito, mas mesmo muito fica por dizer sobre este conjunto pioneiro de habitação para os mais idosos; mas as imagens obtidas são verdadeiramente inspiradoras; sendo que é excelente a microzonagem dos apartamentos T1 ou T0+ e extraordinária a respetiva relação “bem doseada” com os amplos espaços comuns de acesso.

Entrada tem recesso do lado comum, que a personaliza; depois há um hall privado e encerrável; do qual se acede à casa de banho (que também tem acesso pelo quarto) e ao resto da casa através da zona de refeições; esta zona conjuga-se com um espaço amplo com longo balcão de cozinha, com a zona de estar e com um amplo balcão reentrante e quadrangular, que ilumina diretamente as zonas da cozinha e da sala; da zona da sala uma ampla porta de correr liga à ampla zona de quarto; contíguo à cozinha há um pequeno espaço encerrável.

 

 

NOTAS FINAIS DO ARTIGO

Na Parte I do presente artigo, editada na última semana foram divulgados os seguintes casos:

1.      2018 Levensloopbestendige (Apartments for Life) in The Netherlands

2.      2018 Habitação para a aposentação + – McCarthy & Stone

3.      2018 Casos de projecto do PRP UKI

4.      2017  Quality designs for later life housing: Highs and lows – cottage HAPPIness

5.      2017 AV

6.      2016 Woodchester Valley Village

7.      2016 Casos Orchard Cove

8.      2016 Accessing shared ownership for people with disabilities in Wales: An overview of using the HOLD scheme

9.      2016 Independent Living with Care

10.  2016 Architectural Competitions for Care and Caregiving

11.  2015 Maggie Centers

 

Anexo: listagem linkada dos artigos já editados no âmbito do PHAI3C e que desenvolveram toda a respetiva base teórico-prática, anterior à atual análise de casos específicos

Listagem linkada de 51 artigos realizados por António Baptista Coelho na infohabitar, com base direta nos textos, ideias e opiniões dos autores referidos nos documentos que integram a respetiva listagens bibliográficas.

.  Infohabitar, Ano XV, n.º 706, terça -feira, outubro 22, 2019, Pensar um novo habitar intergeracional: alguns comentários iniciais - Infohabitar 706 (5 pp., 2 ffigg.).

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVI, n.º 714, terça -feira, janeiro 07, 2020, Oportunidade, utilidade e exigências do Programa de Habitação Adaptável Intergeracional Cooperativa a Custos Controlados (PHAI3C) - Infohabitar 714 (4 pp.).

Infohabitar, Ano XVI, n.º 716, terça -feira, janeiro 21, 2020, Sobre o passado e o futuro da habitação cooperativa a custos controlados e as novas soluções intergeracionais colaborativas – Infohabitar 716 (7 pp., 4 figg.).

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 805 – Notas sobre o enquadramento da qualidade de vida e residencial especialmente dirigida para idosos e pessoas fragilizadas - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 805 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, fevereiro 16, 2022. (21 p.)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 806 – Notas sobre qualidade de vida e qualidade arquitetónica e urbana na habitação para idosos e intergeracional - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 806 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, fevereiro 23, 2022. (57 p.)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 807 – Qualidade de vida e qualidade pormenorizada na habitação para idosos e intergeracional “I” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 807 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, março 09, 2022; e  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 808 –  Qualidade na habitação para idosos e intergeracional “II” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 808 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, março 16, 2022. (61 p.) . (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 810 (IV) – Sobre as necessidades habitacionais mais específicas dos idosos “I” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 810. Lisboa, quarta-feira, março 30, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 811 –  Sobre as necessidades habitacionais mais específicas dos idosos “II” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 811. Lisboa, quarta-feira, abril 06, 2022. (22 p.) . (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 813 – Acessibilidade residencial e habitantes fragilizados “I” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 813. Lisboa, quarta-feira, abril 21, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 814 – Acessibilidade residencial e habitantes fragilizados “II” - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 814. Lisboa, quarta-feira, abril 27, 2022. (17 p.) . (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 815 – Atratividade, identidade e integração na habitação para idosos I - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 815.  Lisboa, quarta-feira, maio 11, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 816 –  Atratividade, identidade e integração na habitação para idosos II - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 816. Lisboa, quarta-feira, maio 18, 2022. (26 p.) . (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 818 – Espacialidade e conforto residencial no envelhecimento - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 818 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, junho 08, 2022. (14 p.)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 819 – Privacidade e convívio em ambientes residenciais adequados para idosos - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 819 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, junho 15, 2022. (11  p.)

.   Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 820 – Domesticidade e terceira idade - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 820 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, junho 22, 2022. (17  p.)     Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 817 – Lazer, arte, aprendizagem e envelhecimento - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 817 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, junho 01, 2022. (18 p.)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 821 – Segurança na habitação para idosos - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 821 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, junho 29, 2022. (15  p.)    

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 822 – Habitação intergeracional: da adaptabilidade à participação num adequado quadro arquitetónico I – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 822 infohabitar . Lisboa, quarta-feira, julho 06, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 823 – Habitação intergeracional: da adaptabilidade à participação num adequado quadro arquitetónico II – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 823 infohabitar .  Lisboa, quarta-feira, julho 13, 2022.        (25 p.) (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

. Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 825 – Velhice e solidão ou convívio no habitar I – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 825 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, agosto 03, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 826 – Velhice e solidão ou convívio no habitar II – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 826 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, agosto 10, 2022. (36  p.) (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 833 – Notas sobre o habitar, a velhice e as demências – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica  # 833 Infohabitar. Lisboa, quarta-feira, setembro 28, 2022. (26 p.)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 834 – Breves notas sobre o habitar no final de vida – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 834 Infohabitar.  Lisboa, quarta-feira, outubro 12, 2022. (12  p.) 

. Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 836 – Idosos: desafio crítico e oportunidade I - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 836. Lisboa, quarta-feira, outubro 26, 2022; e Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 837 –  Idosos: desafio crítico e oportunidade II - versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 837, Lisboa, quarta-feira, novembro 02, 2022. (22  p.) (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em duas partes e em dois artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 838 – Considerações sobre direitos e problemas dos idosos – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica – Infohabitar # 838. Lisboa, quarta-feira, novembro 09, 2022. (16  p.) 

.  Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 839 – Os idosos e os seus espaços residenciais I – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 839, Lisboa, quarta-feira, novembro 16, 2022; Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 840 – Os idosos e os seus espaços residenciais II – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 840, Lisboa, quarta-feira, novembro 23, 2022; Infohabitar, Ano XVIII, n.º 841 – Os idosos e os seus espaços residenciais III – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 841,  Lisboa, quarta-feira, novembro 30, 2022. (31  p.) (Notar que esta temática, por ser extensa, foi editada originalmente em três partes e em três  artigos semanais, mas é agora editada no DSpace num único documento)

. Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 845 – Caminhos do habitar quando formos idosos – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 845 , Lisboa, quarta-feira, 18 de Janeiro de 2023, (14 p.); Artigo XXIV da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/01/caminhos-do-habitar-quando-formos.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 847 – Estudos e temas a salientar no âmbito da relação entre habitação e envelhecimento – versão de trabalho e base documental  (I) – Infohabitar # 847, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2023 (35 p. partes I e II); Artigo XXV da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/02/estudos-e-temas-salientar-no-ambito-da.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 848 – Estudos e temas a salientar no âmbito da relação entre habitação e envelhecimento – versão de trabalho e base documental (II) – Infohabitar # 848, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2023 (35 p. partes I e II); Artigo XXVI da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/02/estudos-e-temas-salientar-no-ambito-da_15.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 849 – Idosos e espaço urbano – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 849, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2023 (19 p.); Artigo XXVII da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/02/idosos-e-espaco-urbano-versao-de.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 851 – Idosos e espaços urbanos de vizinhança – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 851, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 15 de março de 2023 (9 p.); Artigo XXVIII da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/03/idosos-e-espacos-urbanos-de-vizinhanca.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 852 – Importância da adaptabilidade na habitação para idosos – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 852, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2023 (13 p); Artigo XXIX da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/03/importancia-da-adaptabilidade-na.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 853 – “Habitação Senior ?” – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 853, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2023 (24 p.); Artigo XXX da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/03/habitacao-senior-versao-de-trabalho-e.html

. Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 854 – Apoiar residencialmente um envelhecimento ativo – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 854, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2023 (29 p.); Artigo XXXI da série editorial da Infohabitar “PHAI3C – Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/04/apoiar-residencialmente-um.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 855 – Os idosos e o futuro de uma habitação bem integrada e participada – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 855, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 19 de abril de 2023 (23 p.); Artigo XXXII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/04/os-idosos-e-o-futuro-de-uma-habitacao.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 857 – Habitação, integração etária e intergeracionalidade – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 857, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 3 de maio de 2023 (11 p.); Artigo XXXIII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C” ; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/05/habitacao-integracao-etaria-e.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 858 – Cooperativas, coohousing e habitação colaborativa ou participada – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 858, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 10 de maio de 2023 (10 p.); Artigo XXXIII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C” ; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/05/cooperativas-coohousing-e-habitacao.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 859 – Fazer da habitação para idosos uma escolha apetecível – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 859, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 17 de maio de 2023 (17 p.); Artigo XXXIV da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C” ; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/05/fazer-da-habitacao-para-idosos-uma.html

. Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 860 – Uma habitação muito adequada para pessoas idosas – versão de trabalho e base documental – Infohabitar # 860, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 24 de maio de 2023 (13 p.); Artigo XXXV da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/05/uma-habitacao-muito-adequada-para.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 868 – Renovadas soluções residenciais para as pessoas idosas – versão de trabalho e base documental # 868 Infohabitar, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 19 de julho de 2023 (26 p.); Artigo XXXVI da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/07/renovadas-solucoes-residenciais-para-as.html

. Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 869 – Tipologias residenciais etariamente dirigidas – versão de trabalho e base documental # 869 Infohabitar, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 26 de julho de 2023 (28 p.); Artigo XXXVII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/07/tipologias-residenciais-etariamente.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 870 – Tipologias residenciais para pessoas idosas: um amplo leque de soluções – versão de trabalho e base documental # 870 Infohabitar , Lisboa, quarta-feira, 2 de agosto de 2023 (24 p.); Artigo XXXVIII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/08/tipologias-residenciais-para-pessoas.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 871 – Aspetos estruturantes da tipologia residencial intergeracional – versão de trabalho e base documental # 871 Infohabitar , Lisboa, quarta-feira, 9 de agosto de 2023 (14 p.); Artigo XXXIX da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/08/aspetos-estruturantes-da-tipologia.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 872 – Facetas tipológicas específicas da habitação intergeracional – versão de trabalho e base documental # 872 Infohabitar , Lisboa, quarta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2023 (23 p.); Artigo XL da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/08/facetas-tipologicas-especificas-da.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 873 – Aspetos específicos da conceção residencial para idosos e fragilizados – versão de trabalho e base documental # 873 Infohabitar, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2023 (26 p.); Artigo XLI da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/08/aspetos-especificos-da-concecao.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 874 – Agrupamentos e tipos habitacionais específicos para pessoas com demência – versão de trabalho e base bibliográfica # 874 Infohabitar , Lisboa, quarta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2023 (16 p.); Artigo XLII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”; http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/08/8agrupamentos-e-tipos-habitacionais.html

.  Infohabitar, Ano XIX, n.º 875 – Intergeracionalidade e convívio na habitação – versão de trabalho e base documental # 875 Infohabitar, Lisboa, quarta-feira, 6 de setembro de 2023 (38 p.); Artigo XLIII da série editorial da Infohabitar – “Programa de Habitação Adaptável e Intergeracional através de uma Cooperativa a Custo Controlado” “PHAI3C”;  http://infohabitar.blogspot.com/2023/09/intergeracionalidade-e-convivio-na.html

 

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(i) Embora a edição dos artigos editados na Infohabitar seja ponderada, caso a caso, pelo corpo editorial, no sentido de se tentar assegurar uma linha de edição marcada por um significativo nível técnico e científico, as opiniões expressas nos artigos e comentários apenas traduzem o pensamento e as posições individuais dos respectivos autores desses artigos e comentários, sendo portanto da exclusiva responsabilidade dos mesmos autores.

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(iii) Para se tentar assegurar o referido e adequado nível técnico e científico da Infohabitar e tendo em conta a ocorrência de uma quantidade muito significativa de comentários "automatizados" e/ou que nada têm a ver com a tipologia global dos conteúdos temáticos tratados na Infohabitar e pelo GHabitar, a respetiva edição da revista condiciona a edição dos comentários à respetiva moderação, pelos editores; uma moderação que se circunscreve, apenas e exclusivamente, à verificação de que o comentário é pertinente no sentido do teor editorial da revista; naturalmente , podendo ser de teor positivo ou negativo em termos de eventuais críticas, e sendo editado tal e qual foi recebido na edição.

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Casos de Referência Internacionais mais Específicos e aplicáveis à Habitação Intergeracional: Parte II – infohabitar # 977

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Infohabitar, ano XXII, n.º 977

Edição: quarta-feira 20 de Maio de 2026

Editor: António Baptista Coelho

Arquitecto/ESBAL – Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa –, doutor em Arquitectura/FAUP – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto –, Investigador Principal com Habilitação em Arquitectura e Urbanismo pelo LNEC.

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 Os aspetos técnicos do lançamento da Infohabitar e o apoio continuado à sua edição foram proporcionados por diversas pessoas, salientando-se, naturalmente, a constante disponibilidade e os conhecimentos técnicos do doutor José Romana Baptista Coelho.

Revista do GHabitar (GH) Associação Portuguesa para a Promoção da Qualidade Habitacional Infohabitar – Associação com sede na Federação Nacional de Cooperativas de Habitação Económica (FENACHE).