This is a support center for the disabled consisting of 4 different kinds of facilities, an office, and cafe space, whose concept is “The Station connecting the disabled and the local community”.
In Japan, most of facilities for the disabled are so closed with windows of opaque glass that people inside can’t be seen from outside. But it’s important that such a welfare facility is open to outside and the public for users to live close to the society with their mental health.
In front of the building, there is a café space, where anyone can come and drop in freely.
Article source: STUDIO GAGGINI / NICOLA PROBST ARCHITETTI
The new building is located at the intersection of two neighborhood streets and forms the corner of a new urban block. The compact volume allows the definition of a central free space, a new resident and public park that links and enhances the various elements: the new nursing home, an existing villa, an annex, a small church.
This care and retirement home has been built in the heart of the Normandy bocage near the village of Orbec. The building follows the sloping curve of the hillside, and is visible from the valley.
The social charity institution Padre Rubinos was born in A Coruña nearly a century ago with a dedication to give shelter and asylum to the needy. Later it has continued growing and expanding its scope to nursery schools and the elderly. Now, Spanish architect Elsa Urquijo presents their new headquarter to us. This is one of the most important in the country in its field because it unifies a wide range of services (shelter, nursery, nursing home, etc.) in a unique architectural complex.
The territory of the Zac Clichy-Batignolles was conquered on the railway lines of the Gare Saint-Lazare, transforming it into a new neighborhood around the Martin-Luther-King Park and the future TGI.
AZC’s project for Notre-Dame de Bon Secours had to manage two major issues. Firstly, it involved rebuilding within the urban fabric of the city by reshaping an occupied site in order to give it greater clarity and adapting it to today’s urban requirements. Secondly, the consideration of how to integrate vulnerable or aging populations into the city, and how this should be addressed architecturally.
Grégoire Zündel and Irina Cristea, architects–associates
Nicolas Souchko and Mario Russo (competition)
Elena Melzoba (design studies)
Célia Horn (site)
Alberto Gatti (site)
BRIEF: Residential care-home for the elderly (98 places), nursing home (66 places), creche (64 places), children’s healthcare centre and car park (44 places)
Site:
Surface area of site: 29,000 sq m
Specific urban regulations/ listed site and protected inner-city green space
Specific climatic and geological constraints
Area:
Footprint: 27,000 sq m
Useable surface area and circulation space:
Useable surface area: 8,460 sq m / Circulation: 3,312 sq m (more…)
Article source: Nobuya Kashima + Aya Sato/ K+S Architects
The children’s nursing home “Tsukuba-Aiji-en” is built in the forest and the field in Tsukuba city. 40 children live in these houses in the great nature. These houses are composed of 5 units. “3 group living units”, “office working and communication unit”, “training unit for parents and children”.
The building takes advantage of the North / South soil inclination and thus has a privileged sun exposure. In this sense, the construction is dematerialized in two arms that are articulated in the area of access and permits the best exposure according the distribution of the program.
The Boswijk is a care centre for elders with dementia, designed in close collaboration with the client and with a strong vision as starting point. The centre was to be of a scale that related to its users, and not to be like a traditional nursing home. In spite of their dementia, the patients should be able to live their lives as it always was.
Article source: Jun’ichi Ito Architect & Associates
This project is located near an elementary school and park in a residential area of a Tokyo suburb. The site has an 8m road on the north side, a 12m road on the east side, a 6m road on the south side, and a factory and a two-story old house on the west side. Five crossroads are on the northeast corner. The building is a five-story nursing home with 100 rooms.
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