Retirement Cottage 3

(a) of the building. Consists of only one storey. Includes living, kitchen and study in an open plan and a private bedroom and an atttached bath.

(b) explaining the form, ventilation, spaces and materiality of the structure. The use of two different slopes are to separate the private from the public geometrically.

The space between public and private and pushed into a void creating a open courtyard facing the water body.

In the resulting shape, the roof was pitched up to the same height creating two different geometries for public and private.

The final form is simple in design but is intentional so as to serve the requirements for the elderly couple.

This was a project developed on an imaginary plot for an old couple as their retirement cottage.

It focuses on senior citizen friendly design taking into account their anthropometric considerations.

The project was aimed at making one understand anthropometry and how it changes with certain user groups. It also aimed at sentisising one about differently abled design, incorporation of ramps, disabled toilets etc.

The zoning was done from private to public and a void was carved out to utilise the view of a pond situated adjacent to the plot.