Building for Dementia

by Christoph Metzger (Text by)

Overview

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia. With advancing age we are increasingly dependent on a spatial environment that not only has a positive effect on us, but also supports our everyday activities and takes age-related restrictions into account. A focal point of the new requirements is multisensory architecture: color and lighting design, sound design, tactile materials and surfaces, and haptically attractive forms, creating a spatial atmosphere in which the resident feels comfortable, providing security and orientation and fostering motor skills and cognitive abilities.　Bauen für Demenz　(Building for Dementia) has been developed as a guideline for contemporary and dignified architecture that meets the requirements of people with dementia and views them as an integral part of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783868594782
Publisher:	JOVIS
Publication date:	03/27/2018
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. Ing. habil. Christoph Metzger wurde im April 2016 in das Kuratorium des renommierten　Urban Future Forum　berufen.　

„Die Berufung erfolgte nicht nur wegen seiner interdisziplinären Forschung im Zusammenhang von Architektur und Klang, sondern auch im Hinblick auf Prof. Dr. Metzgers nächste Publikation.　Diese erscheint im September 2016 und trägt den Titel ,Bauen für Demenz‘. Die Schrift ist als Leitfaden für eine zeitgemäße und würdevolle Architektur entwickelt, die Menschen mit Demenz gerecht wird und sie als inklusiven Teil der Gesellschaft versteht.　Das Konzept der Smart Cities, die ihre Bewohner im urbanen Alltag maßgeblich stützen und begleiten, ist ein zentrales Thema des Urban Future Forum."

Christoph Metzger

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Rethinking Architecture 10

Phenomena 11

Movement in the Room 16

Windows as a Promise 18

Sleep and Memory 20

Roads and Paths through Life 22

Roads 23

Material 25

Images 25

Home 26

Childhood 27

Walking 29

Bodies in Motion-Stimulations 32

Swimming 32

Bodies 33

Motion 34

Age and Orientation 38

Recognition 38

Memory Work 39

Magic Mountain 40

Orientation 41

Room Planning 43

Research into Aging 44

Cognitive Skills 46

Degrees of Similarity 46

Complexity-Reduction 48

Compensation as a Process 50

Gestalt and Abstraction 50

Cognition In a State of Flux 51

Communality of the Senses 51

Dementia and Perception 53

Spatial Awareness 54

Gestalt Theory and Spatial Perception 55

Perspective and Color 56

Multisensory Rooms 56

Localization of Acoustic Events in Space 58

Sound Direction 60

Life without Acoustic Orientation 60

Rooms Provide Orientation 62

Orientation in the Room 64

Structure and Pattern of Hearing In the Room 65

Hearing Loss 67

Signal Recognition in the Field of Sound 67

Cognitive Training 68

Memory-Remembering-Action 71

Memory 72

Remembering 72

Action 73

Types of Housing for the Elderly 74

Development of Care Facilities 75

Bases 77

Precursors and First Generation 77

Second Generation 78

Third Generation 79

Fourth Generation 79

Fifth Generation 79

Future-Oriented Local Authority Policies and Sixth Generation 80

Multisensory Architecture 82

Situation 82

Forms of Housing-Infrastructure-Types of Building 84

Intuitive Legibility 84

Home Comfort 85

Quality of Structures and Materials 85

Age-Related Changes in Perception 85

Assistive Systems and Smart Homes 92

Systems 94

Building Technology 95

Services 97

Safety in Old Age 98

Emergency Systems 100

Private and Public Spheres 102

House and Room 102

The Building as an Urban Center 106

Tables, Beds, and Chairs 109

Windows and Doors 111

Changing Environments 112

The House as a Home 115

Inclusion or Exclusion 120

Visual Axes and Opportunities 120

Location and Planning 122

Center and Circle 125

Periphery as an Opportunity 126

Political Understanding 126

Prospect of an Architecture of the Future 128

Lifelines 132

Topoanalysls 138

Navigation 139

Movement and Neuroplasticity 140

Physical Experience of Acoustic Events 142

Acknowledgments 149

Bibliography 150

Notes 152

Captions/Picture credits 157

Imprint 159