I. INTRODUCTION

The developments of the technology and industrialization gave us a lot of benefits about the life qualities. People got a long life. And they were freed from hard work using by hand and body as before. In same time, some relationships of people via work where were in a local community also released under the this changes. On the other hand, the relationships in a local area and work had a multi helps and supports each other without any benefit about the money. Today we were released from those relationships, so that elderly people got a time which is called “Golden years”1regarding to the changing of the life style and social system. However in the same time this situation occur a thing which is to be disappeared the relationships as a result of this changing2 .

In this changing of life system and developments, many care facilities started to construct from many needs from elderly people. Today we have lot of care facilities for differences needs and situations. And for next future also we will need more care facilities. In Switzerland also has same kind of situation such as a growing of the population of elderly people where are happing in all developed country. And the present situation of care facilities have been developed that it realized high quality dwelling environment. But those care facilities still have not been developed to think about the contact with a local community, relation ships with a society and to think how to make a new relationships in a care facility. Under these circumstances we need to crate a place where we can have contact with society in care facilities. Ray Oldenburg proposed a definition of three 3 boundaries relationships about a person and society. The one of this boundary relationship which

1 The Ager over 65 years old. This age retired from your work.

2 Young-Old Urban, Utopias of an Aging Society; Deane Simpson; 2016; Lars Müller Publishers

3 Ray Oldenburg is an American urban sociologist : born 1932

is named “The third place” is a tool to keep contact with a local community and relationship and it could make a new relationships. So that how to make a third place in a care facility become more important for our future. This paper is a investigation to know the possibility to design a “Third place” in care families.

This paper will show a process about the possibilities to craft a care facility which could be a 3rd place in a site. First paragraph will discuss about the 3rd place that is to know the references of the 3rd places according to Ray Oldenburg . Second paragraph will use to show a demographic tendency about Switzerland. And also compare with wold demographic tendency. 3rd part will used for the Aging matter reading to the human body changing. Fourth part is to explain about the care facilities in Switzerland which has definitions of care facilities. And next, it has found and describe about the needs from the investigation by NRP54 . Fifth parts is some case studies, that 4 will analyze four care facilities in each category under the Swiss care systems regarding to architectural aspect. and next it will arrive to the conclusion. And the end of the paragraph of this paper will show the direction of the Master Thesis project that will focus on the transformation of the existing projects. Those existing projects are candidate sites for the project where do not have a space such as a “Third place”. The aim of the project is to create a space to have contact a people who are living there and society.

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