Master Thesis Preparation
2-2. Why “Third place” ? “The third place” is a tool to keep contact with a local community and relationship and it could make a new relationships according to Ray Oldenburg. Present situation of care facility surrounded us show needs of the space where you can have contact with them. When we could realize a third place in a care facility, the place is going to be a place where elderly people can meet olds friends and new friends and also can have contacts with a society. In generally a lot of care-facilities in Switzerland were used to developed more about the point of life quality and those are tend to combine with another program which is a kind of a challenge to have contact with society. But those are missing to look that Which program could we connect a care facility? , How can we connect? Which kind of space is more appropriate for it? Thus, to transform the care facility via “third place” is necessary to solvate the problem of it.
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