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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Architecture and Ageing : On the Interaction between Frail Older People and the Built Environment
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This doctoral thesis deals with the type of architecture that materializes when age-related problems become a long-term condition (LTC) and gradually restrain the individual’s ability to perform activities in daily life (ADL). Their life situation necessitates a support from relatives or municipal eldercare staff in order for them to continue to participate in everyday living. In addition, the architectural space requires a close adjustment to the personal panorama of cognitive or functional impairments. The habitat can be a flat appropriated many years previously or in a residential care home for dependent and frail seniors. Architecture for ageing with dependency demonstrates how space can be used either to affirm or oppress the older person’s attempts to maintain an independent life style. By use of design theory, case study methodology and a heterogeneous research strategy, this study uses a threefold approach—a retrospective, a contemporaneous, and a future-oriented approach—to explore frail older people’s interaction with the architectural space of residential care homes. This has resulted in seven papers that focus on aspects of these human interactions with the built environment. Based on twelve exemplary models, the research paper I concludes that national guidelines result in a homelike, a hotel-like or a hospital-like environment. Research paper II is a retrospective study that examines the use of architecture competitions as a socio-political instrument to define architectural guidelines. Research paper III focuses on dependent seniors’ spatial appropriation of the communally shared space of a ward in a residential care home. Research paper IV employs two environmental assessment methods from the architecture profession and gerontological research (TESS-NH) in order to evaluate the use of interior colouring when refurbishing two residential care homes while the residents remained in place. Research paper V displays a municipal organizer’s considerations to opt for an architecture competition as a means of renewing architecture for the ageing population. Research paper VI examines competition documentation of three municipal architecture competitions organized during the period of 2006 to 2009. Research paper VII, the final study, explores notions concerning the appropriate space for ageing found among a group of municipal representatives, and people from organizations defending older people’s right. It supplies a model for understanding the appropriate space for ageing. This study illustrates the absence of older people with frailties in the public discussion about appropriate architecture for ageing. During the 20th century, the multi-dimensional idea of an architectural space with a homelike appearance has been used to contrast the negatively charged opposite—the complete and austere institution. The overarching conclusion of this study is that architecture for dependent and frail seniors constitutes a particular type of built space that requires an extended dialogue involving dependent seniors, architects, building contractors and care planners in order to conceive appropriate architecture for the ageing society.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-, et al.
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Arkitektur för Bo bra på äldre dar : tre tävlingar i Burlöv, Gävle och Linköping
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Swedish governmental two year program “Growing old, Living well” was launched in 2010 with the specific intent to create innovation regarding housing for both able and frail older people. The program has been administered by the Swedish Institute for Assistive Technology (SIAT), which has diffused the allocation of 50 million Swedish crowns into various projects and studies about housing for the ageing generation. Sweden is entering the ageing country in which the group of people aged 65 years and above attains approximately 19 per cent. Apart from regular case studies on different phenomena that occur in relation to older people and housing, the Swedish government designated the architectural competition as an instrument for renewing contemporaneous thinking about ordinary and special housing for older people. National architecture competitions have been used to define space for dependent persons. These competitions have preceded reforms of the social act. In a parallel track, local architecture competitions have resulted in new housing for older people who still able reside within the stock of ordinary housing. According to the SIAT, a total of 18 municipalities requested information about the conditions and possibilities for acquiring finical support for the organization of architecture competitions or studies about housing for senior citizen. Of these, seven applied for funding to organize competitions, but five local organizers were granted funding. Later, two municipalities suspended their competitions due to unforeseen obstacles. The program has resulted in three architectural competitions. The objective for these competitions has been to infuse creative thinking and future-oriented solutions concerning housing for the older people. The present study will shed light on how a municipal actor works with these matters and will supply a time estimate for such a planning process. The study focuses on the three municipal architectural competitions and the two pilot studies that were used as supplementary source of information regarding housing preferences. Supplemented by written documentation, the process of realizing an architecture competition or a pilot study has been reconstructed as to its dynamics. The methodology includes an inventory of competitions, case studies, document review and interviews of key-persons. By use of the competition documentation and the pilot studies, 74 informants were possible to delimit as to their participation in the process. The decisive reason for why the governmental program Growing Older - Living Well didn’t get a better response from the municipalities lies in the timetable for the national initiative. The governmental program was not coordinated with municipal planning processes for housing. Only municipals that already started their planning could consider organizing competitions. The competitions were organized as invited competitions with a prequalification procedure. Prequalification is a selection procedure used early in the competition process to identify suitable candidates for the following design phase. Three to four teams of architects have been invited to develop design proposals. Based on the study, a set comprising of thirty detailed conclusions can be made about the municipal competitions that were arranged with support from the governmental program. However, they all converge into an overarching conclusion that states the direct link between the wording of the competition brief and the participating architects’ inclination to rethink the design task in a fundamental or moderate approach. The study concludes that the better the arranger prepare the competition brief, the more accurately will the participating architects convert this text into future-oriented architecture for older people that is active on a comprehensive level as well as on the detailed level one.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-, et al.
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Arkitektur för ett åldrande samhälle : tre arkitekttävlingar inom regeringsuppdraget Bo bra på äldre dar
- 2013
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Ingår i: KRITIK. - Stockholm : Syntes förlag. - 1654-7969. ; :19, s. 38-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Under våren 2012 har tre arkitekttävlingen med fokus på olika boendetyper för äldre genomförts. Tävlingarna har varit en del av uppdraget Bo bra på äldre dar, som regeringen i juli 2010 anförtrodde Hjälpmedelsinstitutet, HI, att förvalta.Denna artikel handlar om tävlings- och bedömningsskedet i de tre kommunala arkitekttävlingar, som arrangerades i Burlöv, Gävle och Linköping. Det är tävlingsprogrammets intentioner, deras koppling till regeringsprogrammet och hur tävlande arkitekter har löst tävlingsuppgiften som artikeln lyfter fram. Artikeln utgår från intervjuer med de personer som varit inblandade i tävlingarna från tävlingshandlingarnas framtagande, över inkomna tävlingsförslag till juryns bedömning och korandet av en vinnare.En slutsats från de tre tävlingarna är att bostadsmiljöerna inte bara ska välkomna personer i åldersgruppen 65 år och uppåt. Goda bostäder är inte en åldersfråga och särskilda kategoribostäder för äldre är fel väg att gå för att möta framtidens samhällsutmaningar, enligt jurymedlemmarna. De tre tävlingarna gestaltar ett åldersvänligt boende med kvaliteter som kontakt med omgivningen genom utblickar och dagsljusinfall, en lokalisering till en plats som både erbjuder avskildhet och tillfälle till social gemenskap allt efter den personliga smaken, och inte minst en arkitektonisk utformning och byggd miljö, som skapar förströelse, stöd och upplevelser i vardagen.
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- Andersson, Jonas E., 1964-
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Bygger vi som vi tänker : eller bygger vi utan att tänka?
- 2006
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Ingår i: Äldre i centrum : tidskrift för aktuell äldreforskning. - Stockholm : Stiftelsen Stockholms läns äldrecentrum. - 1653-3585. ; 4:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Calamities and controversies around resilient architecture for ageing : life course perspective on an exemplary Swedish residential care home
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Age is a delicate matter, but the Swedish welfare state is ageing and has an increasingly larger propor-tion of elderly people, about 19 per cent (Sweden Statistics, 2014). Since the election campaign in 2006, the matter of appropriate housing and caregiving for older frail persons has been a reoccurring item on the political agenda. Governmental delegations and programmes have ventured out into the great unknown territory of architectural experiences and age-related problems. However, one existing residential care home, in the following RCH, pops up as an exemplary and universal model for architec-ture and the frail ageing process, the residential care home of Vigs Ängar.Initiated as a mutual initiative in the early 1990s, between a local anthroposophical interest group and the municipality of Ystad, Sweden, its creation and existence describe a troublesome tension between legal frameworks, managerial systems for eldercare, facility management and idealistic visions for fu-ture-oriented caregiving. Despite a 20 year existence, this exemplary model has resulted in few similar facilities, both architecture-wise and eldercare-wise. Instead, a large number of national and interna-tional study visits have turned the building along with caregiving into an open smorgasbord consisting of architectural elements or therapeutic approaches, subject to free sampling and tasting. To some extent, the anthroposophical label has clouded the resilient approach in architectural design and care-giving for the frail stages in life.The focus of this paper was to go behind semantics and unravel the generating images that constitute the fundamental reason for the exemplary status of the RCH in question. Critical analysis has been applied as a research method in order to scrutinize documents and drawings that originate from the design process. Random conversations and interviews with various informants associated with the RCH, among which the architect, have been executed over the period 2007-2013. This study suggests that the key factor in this successful realization of an RCH is the solid idea for a resilient architecture. This idea encompasses both ephemeral and tangible experiences of space that structure both the older person’s quality in life as well as the individual staff member’s satisfaction with the work envi-ronment. In that sense, the RCH of Vigs Ängar is more of a spatial sensation than an anthroposophical epiphany.
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-, et al.
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Competitions as innovators of space for frail older people : on architecture for the silvering society
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the context of the universal ageing process that is currently taking place in western society, the organization of architecture competitions that deals with space for dependent ageing comes of relevance. Based on the welfare regime theory, it could be argued that this type of architecture is part of a national architectural typology. The type of welfare regime does not only supply spatial parameters to respect, but it also align architects’ the spatial visions in order to incarnate the national socio‐political ambitions. This type of space seems to have a slower pace of change, since a spatial innovation is juxtaposed with sociopolitical reform work of the welfare regime. The present study is an explorative study of programming competition documents and winning entries that were part of the Swedish governmental initiative of 2010,” Growing older, Living well,” to innovate space for ageing by use of architectural competitions. Three municipal architecture competitions that dealt with space for ageing (ordinary or sheltered housing) constitute the framework for this study. These were organized during the period of November 2011 to April 2012, partly sponsored by the Swedish Institute of Assistive Technology (SIAT), which administered the governmental allocation of 50 million SEK. The research material was accumulated by use of internet searches, interviews and questionnaires. The analysis applied pattern seeking and involved close reading, document analysis and spatial analysis of architectural drawings. The study suggests a preliminary conclusion: programme documents used within the field of architecture for ageing and eldercare emphasize spatial requirements for an overall high architectural quality and long‐term performance, but little attention is paid to the user perspective, how to grow old in a care environment with respect to the WHO policy of active ageing. In addition, the study demonstrates a conservation of existing notions about appropriate architecture for ageing at the expense of an integration of multi‐disciplinary findings on the relation on ageing, eldercare and space. Consequently, architecture competitions that focus on the emerging ageing society could be seen as a restrained type of space for architects to digress. National welfare goals and existing means to achieve these goals act as inhibitors for an innovative spatial preparation for the ageing society.
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- Andersson, Jonas E., 1964-
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Design for assisted living
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - Stockholm : Arkitektur Förlag AB. - 0004-2021. ; 3
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- Andersson, Jonas E, 1964-
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Empatisk arkitektur : exemplet Vigs Ängar
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Ingår i: Gammal och fri. - Simrishamn : Förlag Ängsblomman. - 9789163304194 ; , s. 80-85
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