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 Mr Jonas E Andersson,
architect SAR/ MSA
Mobilephone +46 70 731 72 15
Telephone +46 8 790 85 41
email jonasa@arch.kth.se
An
architectural research about:
Environments for dwelling and care
intended for fragile elderly people in their third age
Is there a connection between the
architectural concept of a building intended for elderly mentally and
physically frail people and the sensation of well-being among the
elderly, their relatives and the staff in the unit?
 This is one of the questions
in an interdisciplinary architectural research pro-ject for a
doctor’s thesis, entitled ENVIRONMENTS FOR DWELLING AND CARE
INTENDED FOR FRAGILE ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE THIRD AGE, and executed at
KTH, Campus Haninge, Sweden. Departing from his own competence as
architect and experience of designing buildings for elderly people,
Jonas E Andersson, architect SAR/ MSA (member of the Swedish
Association for Architects), tries to study the correlation between the
architectural concept of a home for fragile elderly people and the
personal estimation of well-being among the elderly and the staff.
In
a home in the Swedish municipality of Haninge, 10 kilometres south of
Stockholm, the PhD-student will perform a study to identify opinions and
remarks made upon the spatial design of the building. The study will be
executed at a unit for elderly with dementia as well as at a unit for
elderly with handicap or in great need of care. Of particular interest
is the capacity of the architectural concept to serve as a mnemonic
support in everyday life for elderly people with dementia. In another
home, now under construction, a study focuses on the intentions
stipulated during the building process. A licentiate treatise is due
for august 2005.
tutor:
Magnus Rönn, assistant professor, School of Architecture, KTH,
Stockholm
Conferences | Conference
paper | Discourse | Articles
| Reviews
Publications on the Internet | Memoir | Information
Conferences :
2004
- Helsinki the 23-25
April: Living in the North, nordic reflections on architecture,
the Annual Symposium of the Nordic Association for Architectural
Research.
- Stockholm the 15-16
November: Symposium of environmental psychology. Stockholm
University. Presentation of ongoing research.
2005
- Stockholm the 22-24
April: Building the future, impacts of New Technologies on Urban
Form and Urban Design, the Annual Symposium of the Nordic
Association for Architectural Research.
- Vadstena the 1-3 June:
The inverted age pyramid, how does the society function when the
age class 55+ dominates? Vadstena Forum – forum for
social planning.
Conference
papers:
Empathic architecture
A paper presented at the annual symposium of the Nordic Association for
Architectural Research, in Helsinki, Finland, the 23-25 April 2004. In
the paper the author discusses different issues important to building
planners in order to create an empathic architecture for elderly frail
people.
Read
the paper » (268 kb)
Architecture for living in the advanced
age – about 12 buildings for elderly people with dementia or
somatic diseases
A paper presented at the annual symposium of the Nordic Association for
Architectural Research, in Stockholm, the 22-24 April 2005. In the
paper the author discusses how the design of building for fragile
elderly people has evolved from 1992 to 2003.
Read the paper » included in a licentiate thesis due for October 2005.
Architecture and aging – seven
stories about use and experience of space in environments for elderly
in need of daily care
A paper presented at the Vadstena Forum, the 1-3 June 2005. In
the paper the author describes the use and experience of space among
elderly people and tries to define important values for the
architectural design.
Read the paper » included in a later publication from Vadstena forum.
Discourses:
Good environments and activities for elderly people
Meeting-place Elderly Care, Concert Hall, Gothenburg, the 23-24
september, 2004. A discourse together with Helle Wijk, Ph D,
Sahlgrenska Universitets Sjukhuset, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Only in Swedish.
See
PDF-presentation » (2811 kb)
Read the inventory
» (7889 kb)
Seminar about
“Habitations for elderly people”,
White Arkitekter AB,
Art museum, Malmoë, the 14th October 2004. A seminar arranged by the
architect firm White Arkitekter AB, Malmoë. For the seminar an article
was written in order to screen on going research about buildings and
elderly people. Only in Swedish.
See PDF-presentation
» (6303 kb)
Articles:
Environments for elderly people will be studied
source: Handslaget 2004:1
Presentation of the research project in the municipal journal of
Haninge Kommun. Only available in Swedish. Please contact:
jonasa@arch.kth.se
Stunned French debate
elderly care
Source: Tidskriften Äldre i Centrum, 2004:1
An article about the heat wave in France during 10 days in August 2003.
Only available in Swedish. Please contact:
jonasa@arch.kth.se
When the age sets the limit
source: Tidskriften Arkitektur, 2004:4 june
An review of ten different elderly care units in different parts of
Sweden, and also a reflection upon this type of living in the third
age. The text is only available in Swedish. For a summery in English of
the whole journal, please contact:
www.arkitektur.se
»
Reviews:
Design for assisted living
Source: Arkitektur 2004:3, april
Review of the latest book by the American researcher Victor Regnier
about building for mentally and physically frail elderly people. The
review is published in the journal of Swedish Architecture, ARKITEKTUR.
The text is only available in Swedish. For a summary in English of the
whole journal, please contact:
www.arkitektur.se »
Modelling and simulation as
planning tools for improvement of the quality of health care
environments – towards a conceptual model of a care process
Source: Nordisk Arkitekturforskning 2004:3
Review of a licentiate thesis by Marie Elf presented at Chalmers
University of Technology, Gothenburg in 2003. The thesis is in English
and tries to establish a model of care work that would be useful in a
design situation when planning a new care building. The thesis is in
English.
Review only in Swedish »
(1891 kb)
Publications on the Internet:
Good built environments for elderly people – a
question for architects?
How intentions in the architectural design process are forged into a
building for elderly people with dementia or somatic diseases.
Published on the Internet site of Vardalinstitutet.
Publication
only in Swedish » (313 kB)
http://www.vardalinstitutet.net/documentarchive/1168/1575/1576/2417.pdf?objectId=5192
Memoir:
Dementia and light
An inventory of the design of indoor lighting at a unit for elderly
people with dementia and the possible influence of lighting on the
residents
Read the paper »
(160 kb)
Health improving environments
for living and care in the third age
A memoir about health-improving environments for elderly people, a
daily activity or a part of building conception?
Only available in Swedish
Look at the paper » (254 kb)
Information:
Presentation of the research project
The research project ”Environments for dwelling and care intended
for fragile elderly people in their third age” is presented in a
general manner, only available in Swedish. Please contact:
jonasa@arch.kth.se
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