SENSORY SENIOR APARTMENT
SENSORY SENIOR APARTMENT
The project proposed a design for senior livings in the centre of New York City. The location of this place is at 67 Hudson Street in Manhattan, the area called Tribeca. The concept of this design is to increase senior’s sensory systems that decrease over period of times. The spaces that provided to seniors will act as everyday stimulus. Individual programs inside the building will assist seniors to have comfortable and convenient living.
MEMORY
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HABIT
A settled or regular tendency or practice especially one that is hard to give up.
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The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
PERMANENCE
SENSE
Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
The state or quality of lasting or remaining unchanged indefinitely.
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67 Hudson Street New York, New York The current building is used as residence from second floor to top floor. The first floor is occupied by dental and health clinic for local residents.
Tribeca is a place where many residence buildings are located. Before it became a place for living, the place were full of industrial factories and offices. Nowadays, there are more schools, university and stores are located in this areas. Age ranges are wide from children to elders.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Depending on one or few senses
Nowadays, almost everyone has their own phone, or any electrical devices. Especially in New York, people in subway, on a street, on a bus or even when they are walking they are looking at their phones. It makes hard to imagine a time without a smart phones. The current issues that I am going to solve is usage of individual sensory systems. Because many people are focusing on small devices they are not paying attentions to the surroundings. Even young generations are not using all their senses what about the elders? When people get older, they start to loss senses which is necessary and essential elements for people to live with.
HEARING
LISTENING
MEMORY
NOSTALGIA
Through five senses people feel permanence. The ordinary object become memorable item when all of these are incorporated inside. 4
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EATING
ANALYSIS & PROGRAM When people get old, they start to loss sensibilities. Generally, the process starts from age 40. The most common and very first sense is eye sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. However, we can keep the good sensory systems by practices and encounter with everyday.
Eye Sight Hearing Taste Touching Smell
OVERLAPPING PROGRAMS
Program defined by the sensory systems
Age 40
Activity Spaces
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First Floor
Second Floor
Interaction Hallways
Thrid Floor
Fourth Floor
Fifth Floor
MAIN SENSORY CONNECTION The main opening is where a core of the sensory activity occurs. When two or more sense activity interact each other will have openings. People will gather around the core to experience enhancement of their function of the body.
DIRECTIONAL FURNITURE
Concept model
Customized furniture for elders The lounge seatings are customized since, it is function as not only seating but also, sign for indications. There are two type of furniture. One is for single role furniture that is placed on the first floor. The other one is more for communal spaces. People are facing each other for group activities. On the other hand, the first lounge seating is more for individual waiting areas. The structures that continues on the top and bottom lead people to follow the path to go to the certain places in the building. 8
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First Floor: Individual Seating
Fifth Floor: Group Seating
Interacting Threshold
SECTIONS
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yujin kim 2014 spring