01 PROJECT BRIEF This programme is to rework against the conventional institutional nursing home and mono-functional housing development in Singapore which have been deteriorating the condition of people with dementia. Rather than designing a mock-up 50's or 60's living environment for people with dementia, this project attempts to focus on the spatial experiences of the people that use the spaces / buildings, to create a strong sense of community, Proposed Site
familiarity and identity. A domestic environment is developed with referencing to a series of familiar daily routine and slow down the progress of dementia.
Kampung Lorong Buangkok
latitudes 1° 22' N
activities to promote independence and confidence of people with dementia , in order to evoke their memory
02 DEMOGRAPHICS Dementia TODAY
Dementia TOMORROW
There are 22,000 people living with dementia
In 2030, 1 in every 10 elderly will be suffering from dementia.
in Singapore, 2010.
Who will be their carers in this future shrinking population?
longitudes 103° 48' E
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900,000 senior
10% of them will be
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suffering from dementia
Dementia Living Village
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An integrated development for people with dementia in Singapore Khoo Seah Fern 060971 KDA772 2014
50% cared by domestic maid at home 75% choose to stay at home alone or with family members 25% choose to stay in nursing homes / old folk centres
03 USER CONNECTION + CHALLENGE OF CARE Quiet zone for family retreat
Design Priority
Spaces for social activities
1. To provide a weekend getaway for visitors or family with variety of social activites and outdoor spaces 2. 24-hr onsite staffs / carers are required to
Dementia
Family
Community
take care of mid and late stage residents. 3. Interaction between exiting community and dementia residents to promote continuity
Consultation & Therapy
living of previous daily routines.
Healing garden
Challenge of Care
24-hr onsite Occupantional Therapist
1. Isolation for different levels of care to prevent witnessing their gradually no-cure progress.
EARLY
MID
2. Spending enough time in nature and
LATE
outdoor exercises to slow down the progress of deteriotation.
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Pet
Play
Plant
People
Site Plan Scale 1 : 500 Pieces of memory in Kampung Lorong Buangkok
04 METHODOLOGY
33 °C
NE
Pragmatic Approach
Architectural Approach
1. Functional Zoning
1. Notion of Home 3-Storey building responds to the building height of the semi-detached houses opposite river and adjacent condominum residential.
Institutional
A flat rather than just a bedroom
House on Stilts Social spaces are loacted at ground floor to maximise facade opening - create 'raised-up' effect.
Bed
One Big Communal Dining
Bed
One Big Communal Dining
Residential
like home instead of bedside like hospital.
High Care Apartment
Staffs rest room and apartment unit (located at ground floor)
Corridor as heat buffer Common corridor is placed at west side with timber screen shading to protect building envelope from direct sunlight.
Social Spaces
Big spaces can be overwhelming and confusing for people with dementia
Communal Building
25 °C
1. Building Form vs. Climatic Resposive Design
Bed
Ideally to design small and domestic spaces Visitors can sit with residents at living room
Assisted Living Apartment
Home-like
Bed Bed
within spaces rather than large spaces.
Independent Living Apartment
Environmental Approach
12 hrs
Personal lounge where residents can invite friends and familiy to their 'home'
Orientation East-west orientation to minimize area expose to solar radiation.
Rain water harvesting tank
2. Security vs. Autonomy Facilitate wayfinding and stimulate remaining congnitive abilities
2. Access & Circulation
2. Landscape Approach
A physical barrier is necessary to provide maximum security within the living village in order to prevent residents from wandering beyond the boundary without infringing residents’ liberty and dignity.
Nodes
2- way Vehicle route
Nurse station at every lift core at ground floor
Camouflage exit door with furniture or changeof-materials.
Vertical circulation
Loading / unloading
Entrance / car parking
Existing forest mediates with healing garden and proposed outdoor spaces. Landscape creates an 'invisible' buffer and provides 'segmented memory' along walkway.
Landmarks
Covered walkway
Emergency pick up
3. Sectional Strategy (notion of public vs private, inside vs outside)
Institutional
Home-like
Everyone stays in one locked space and watched by a nurse.
Good opportunity to wandering like own home, and around the building with passive surveillance.
3. Life between Corridors Those days before they forget
Public access spaces
It is not about designing a 50's or 60's dementia village, instead, the approach of this project allows Semi-public social spaces for residents and surrounding community, and staff units
Districts Staff Apartment
Sequences of outdoor spaces and activities create a safe and designated wandering route as well as facilitate wayfinding.
3. Materiarity The priority and focus of selected material is to facilitate wayfinding, also respond to Singapore tropical weather and also respect the existing forest topography and adjacent traditional village. External wall
Colour strategy for wayfinding
residents to develop a continuation of daily routines and create their collective of ownerships to the building. The project aims to provide a familiar domestic neighbourhood living where there are
friends, family, children, pets and plants. Private residential apartment
Existing colourful fencing
Coloured fencing to assist navigation and create visual memory along walkway back to 'home'.
Spatial hierarchy of traditional village house Connector (Corridor)
Communal
External floor Changing of floor material to prevent wandering beyond the boundary.
Private
Spatial hierarchy of traditional chinese shop houses in Singapore Private backyard
Air well
Private spaces and bedrooms
Living room
Public
Semi public
Shared space
Private
Semi private
Traditional 'peranakan' tile, a derivative of Dutch Delft tiles which can be found in traditional chinese shop houses design.
Personal lounge at assisted living group home. Use contrast colours and change-ofmaterial to indicate different spaces
View from communal outdoor dining deck to morning coffee house, vege garden, child care and Taichi platform.
Box window at quiet corner for alone-time, small group activities or family retreat.
Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Independant Living Spartment
Fruit Garden
Common Verandah with Laundry
timber decking Fruit Garden with Hedge fencing
Kitchen + Dining
Fitness Trail Rest Point + Raised Planter Box
Living
Porch
Private deck
Evening Open Deck + Nurse Station Studio Apartment
Mini Golf Verandah Lounge
Fitness trail (open for vehicle in the event of emergency)
Gazebo
Timber pathway continue from communal building
Camouflage Hedge Main Gate
Ground Floor Street Plan Scale 1 : 100
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05 Design Impetus + Outcome Wandering in Familiar Spaces A series of pattern languages derived from Alexander, Ishikawa and Silverstein 'A Pattern Language', with the inspiration from Kevin Lynch's city cognitive mapping based on the five elements: path, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks to develop the design priorities for people with dementia The designed built environment aim to archieve : Architectural detail _ Scale 1 : 10
1. SUSTAIN INDEPENDANCY - promote independancy and provide opportunities to retain remaining cognitive skills.
Timber handrail with build-in LED lighting
2. HOME LIKE ENVIRONMENT - create a therapeutic living environment based on the notion of home, which provide people with dementia a 10
continuity of life in a familiar environment. 3. RESPECT EXISTING LANDSCAPE - respond to the surrounding landscape, the green continue from existing forest, develops various outdoor
1. 40mm diam. larch rod handrail with curved ms mounting plate
spaces and healing garden, continue into the living spaces, personal courtyard and balcony.
and adjustable brushed stainless steel handrail bracket. 2. 25 x 50mm timber top plate. 3. 25 x 50mm recycled double wood balustrade with 20mm
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circular ciculator ms spacer. 4. LED tape light aluminum channel install between double wood 2
plate to light up the railing at night. 5. MS plate to support timber balustrade onto timber floor joist. 6. S/Steel cable spacing with 100mm spacing. 7. 100 x 10mm recycled timber plank coated with selected
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brushed paint, connects the entire living village which is
1. Connection with community
2. Security and freedom
3. Single loaded corridor for better ventilation and view from external building.
6. Raised planter box
7. Clear visual cues and legible navigation
8. Visual control (to avoid seeing other residents leaving)
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4. Design for short circulation with loops
5. Large private unit window (± 25m2 / room) with shades.
used to distinguish and navigate within building and outdoor spaces.
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8. 100 x 100mm fire retardant timber post with 150 x 50mm double timber bearer to support 150 x 50mm timber floor joist
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for outdoor corridor. 9. Pre-treated deckboard finish. 10. Trellis with 100 x 100mm recycled timber post anchor bolt to concrete base.
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11. 150 x 50mm recycled timber rafter @ 900mm ctrs max supported by 150 x 50mm ledge. 12. 12mm laminated glass lay on 25 x 25mm timber batten @
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9. Provide family private spaces
10. Strong connection between indoor & outdoor spaces
150mm ctrs max.
Apartment Balcony
Covered Walkway
Detail Section _ Scale 1 : 50 Wondering route between assisted living apartment and communal building 1. Riverside walking deck with planter box. 2. Outdoor drying cloth decking 3. Overnight staff room with planter box as boundary between
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bedroom and common corridor
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4. Common corridor 5. Air well courtyard 6. Apartment quiet corner / family retreat 7. Resident Bedroom + private balcony 8. Covered link bridge with planter box 9. Nurse Station 10. Vertical garden
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11. Rain water harvesting tank at the end of pitch roof for both
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apartment and communal building.
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Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Sectional Elevation _ Scale 1 : 100
Assisted Living Apartment
Assisted Living Air Well Courtyard
On-site Medical Station + Physiotherapy
High Care Living Apartment
Ramp connect to
Rain Water Storage
riverside walking deck
Janitor
Sluice Room
Dentist Drug
Nurse Station
Store
Air Well Courtyard
Staff Apartment Unit
Public Toilet Linen
Riverside view deck
Taichi
Physiotherapy
Staff Restroom
H'cap
Outpatient Clinic
Scented Garden with Raised
Aviary
Planter Box
Yoga
Outdoor Yoga Deck
Dementia Sensory Garden
Bird View Deck
Music + Dancing Class Flower Stall
Fish Pond Nurse Station Boutique + Thrift
Post
ATM
Hairdressing
Lanai
Supermarket
Indoor fitness studio
Play
Pet Shop
Tailor
Bank
Communal Dining
Beauty Salon
Communal Lounge
Domestic Water Services
Treatment Plant
Outdoor Dining
Child Care
Art + Craft Workshop
Deck Kitchen Servery Fire staircase connect to fruit garden deck at ground floor.
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Fire staircase connects to riverside view deck at ground floor.
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01 Detail Section _ Scale 1 : 20
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Assisted living apartment common corridor / air well
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building envelope
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01 Frame work 1. Concrete post and beam with concrete slab.
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02 Roof + Air Well
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2. Asphalt fiberglass shingle roof at 30° fall with metal drip edge lay on recycled plywood with saturated underlayment. 3. 38 x 75mm hw batten @ 900mm ctrs max infill with 75mm thk glasswool insulation. 4. 90 x 20mm timber strip ceiling on 150 x 38mm exposed
Assisted Living Apartment
timber rafter @ 900mm ctrs max.
First Floor Plan _ Scale 1 : 100
5. 50 x 25mm exposed recycled hw timber batten @
(Sequence from social spaces, group home shared area to personal
150mm ctrs max.
spaces)
6. 1200 x 1200mm suspended open cell fire retardant wood ceiling panel at common corridor (FRL 60/60/60).
1. Air well courtyard with built-in seating 2. Scooter parking lot 3. Varenda and common corridor
03 Double-skin Wall
Covered Link Bridge
4. Lounge and dining
7. 100 x 15mm recycled hardwood strip operable shading
with Planter box
5. Kitchen
panels with 40 x 40mm RHS metal sub-frame, to allow ventilation and controlled daylight.
6. Laundry
8. Wrought iron frame anchor on concrete floor for to
7. Hidden storage 8. Quiet corner / family retreat
create a private porch garden with hanging pot plant.
9. Bedroom with attached bathroom and personal balcony
This is to replace solid wall between common corridor and entrance of apartment. 9. Custom-made timber bench and side table with 100
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x 50 recycled hw timber ledge @ 1200mm ctrs max, attached to designed timber railing. 10. Timber railnig refer to Architectural Detail _ scale 1:10.
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04 Floor (External)
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11. 12mm thk non slip wood-like porcelain tile on 25mm thk
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screeding to 1:100 fall.
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12. 150 x 50mm hw floor joist @ 600mm ctrs max with 100 x 20mm timber strip finishing, supported by 150 x 50mm double hw beams. 13. 100 x 100mm timber hw timber post with glav. iron ant cap on pad foundation.
Fire staircase Emergency door to be released only in the event of fire
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Communal Building First Floor Plan _ Scale 1: 100 1. Lift Lobby
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2. Nurse Station 3. Lanai + Vertical Garden 4. Theater Room 5. Mahjong / Game Room 6. Corner Deck (looking to fish pond / sensory garden) 7. Multifunction Hall 8. Work Station + Computer Room
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9. Research + Consultation 10. Quiet Corner 11. Small Group Seating 12. Snoezelen Therapy Room 13. Public Toilet with open courtyard 14. Library 15. Reading Corner with Bay Window (looking to entrance water feature) 16. Open Deck 17. Hanging vine with Scooter Storage at ground floor 18. Common corridor with Box window (access view from entrance) 19. Water Feature at ground floor
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