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What kind of accommodation for the seniors we're all about to become?
Carsat Normandie, the five CAUE Normands (Conseils d'Architecture, d'Urbanisme et de l'Environnement) and the Union régionale des CAUE Normands wanted to anticipate the evolving accommodation needs of senior citizens in Normandy, and challenged the architects! A call for ideas motivated the A26 teams, who came up with a concept for spaces combining juxtaposed, juxtaposed linked and Linked. Or when Lego architecture comes into its own!
A26 was invited to a seminar presenting prospective studies on the future accommodation needs of retirees by Silver Habitat professionals.
The call for ideas launched by Carsat Normandie was aimed at proposing innovative concepts for senior housing, with a view to identifying prospective avenues to guide elected representatives, developers, landlords and housing managers. The idea was to provide guidelines for the development of projects that really meet the expectations of young seniors who are experiencing a generational and cultural break with their own parents.
In revisiting the relational promise of these places, A26 thought about our grandmothers and grandfathers, and also about us, young, half-young, half-old.
The challenge was to find answers to such powerful questions as "what can I do for them", "what could I do for myself (too)", "what don't I want to do", "how can we open the door to a positive, humanized, convivial future, while preserving intimacy"?
Or even "how to solve the problem of retirement, which often means withdrawal from our society", or "how to remain a citizen for the rest of your life"?
The response chosen by the A26 teams was to combine three key ideas of the living environment: Juxtaposed, Juxtaposed Linked and Linked.
20 m² of individual space + 10 m² of co-dividual space to create a shared space.
We support these ages with an evolutionary concept, using Lego bricks that fit together in site-specific polymorphs.
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