East St. Louis Action Research Project
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Part Two - Ideas in Housing for the Elderly

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environmental education community organizing
cultural identity livability

Planning and Design for Quality of Life: Applying Theoretical Perspectives

graphic by misa inouye - LA465, Fall'95

Part Two:	Prototypical Solutions Two weeks, 10% of final grade
Week 4. Feb 7-Feb 11	Weds Feb 9: Part Two Introduction: Prototypical Solutions
	Fri Feb 11: Lecture/Discussion - Site Context
Week 5. Feb 14-Feb 18	Mon Feb 14: Valentine's Day
	Wed Feb 16: Lecture: Housing for the Elderly and Quality of Life
Week 6. Feb 21-Feb 25	Wed Feb 23: Project due - Posted to WWW. 1:30 pm. Background information presentations and illustrations of solutions following those guiding principles -- posted to web.

Prototypical Solutions --
Work as Teams

Two weeks, 10% of final grade.

ASSIGNMENT in general:

The investigations you have already accomplished in class will be a model or starting point for the development of one or more prototype design and planning solutions. The goal is to illustrate the application of what may at times appear to be rather abstract ideas.

To help you develop prototypes, answer the following questions:

In simple terms, state the community and/or design issues your project will address. This should be a direct match to the topics you were given for Part One. Pick the ones that interest you the most. This prototype design will focus on those topics even though it may conflict with the ideas of other groups in the class.
What do the five sources on reserve tell you in the way of guidelines for design of housing for the elderly? Each person in the team must read one of the five books in its entirety so you can do this.
What is an appropriate scale to address those design and planning issues? For example, Defensibility may operate at the level of the individual home whereas addressing Power and Poverty may demand you work at the neighborhood scale.
What is the extent of your project? Provide maps and diagrams from ArcView or the EGRETS database to show the locations and potential extents for your area of study. This is a must, not an option.

Check out this linked page to see an example of the kind of graphics we are talking about. You can use the same method for plan rendering - it is fast, web-friendly, and communicates very well. /la/LA437-F95/final/marcy/design.html Pay special attention to the way Marcy provides links to the specific issues she was addressing in her prototype designs.

ASSIGNMENT specifics:

Develop illustrative schematic designs reflecting the community design issues you studied. Design sketches should include annotated schematic plans, sections, elevations and perspectives, as appropriate. Schematic plans must include notes about the ideas you found in the literature. Use 8.5 x 11 inch sheets, scanned into computer files and colorized using paint program software. We expect the equivalent of about twelve sheets of illustrations per group.

Create a web page including:

Background research findings and all references and brief synopses.
Maps indicating resources useful to address research findings. (EGRETS, Old Map Atlas)
Design and planning illustrations of design prototypes.
Other illustrations indicating the atmosphere you intend to create.
Schematic plans MUST be fully annotated to explain the design decisions you have made and cite the sources for your ideas.

Post Friday, Feb 18, 1:30pm -- NOTE - we will be presenting from these web pages so YOU MUST BE FINISHED

Books
on reserve

Carstens, Diane. Site Planning and Design for the Elderly: Issues, Guidelines, and Alternatives. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. (Note: Diane is one of our UIUC MLA alumni; this book is an outgrowth of her masters' thesis.) amazon.com - $49.95 Paperback (December 1997) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471285374.

Hoglund, J. David. Housing for the Elderly: Privacy and Independence. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. (Note: David is one of our UIUC Arch alumni; this book is an outgrowth of his masters' thesis.) out-of-print.

Lawton, Mortimer Powell. Planning and Managing Housing for the Elderly. NY: John Wiley, 1974. out-of-print.

Regnier, Victor. Assisted Living Housing for the Elderly: Design Innovations from the United States and Europe. NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. amazon.com - $54.95 Hardcover - 212 pages (October 11, 1993) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471284238

Regnier, Victor and John Pynoos. Housing the Aged: Design Directives and Policy Considerations. NY: Elsevier, 1987. out-of-print

others

Regnier, Victor, Jennifer Hamilton, Suzie Yatabe. Assisted Living for the Aged and Frail : Innovations in Design, Management, and Financing Columbia Univ Press, 1995. amazon.com - $39.00 Hardcover (February 1995) ISBN: 0231082762

Brummett, William J. The Essence of Home : Design Solutions for Assisted-Living Housing. John Wiley & Sons, 1996. amazon.com - $59.95 Hardcover - 160 pages (November 18, 1996) ISBN: 0471287555

Harrigan, John E., Jennifer M. Raiser, Phillip H. Raiser. Senior Residences : Designing Retirement Communities for the Future (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design) amazon.com - $69.95 Paperback - 352 pages (March 1998) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471190616

Pearce, Benjamin, W.. Senior Living Communities : Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. Johns Hopkins Univ Press. amazon.com - $60.00 Paperback - 432 pages (November 1998); ISBN: 0801859611

Example annotated plans

from Zeisel, John. 1981. Inquiry by Design - Tools for Environment-Behavior Research. Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole

from Anthony, K. et al. 1982. Rosemead High School - a Post Occupancy Evaluation and Behavior-Based Program. Pomona, CA: School of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University