Not Too Old

This study is a reaction on the ageing population.

The proposal is a rich environment for the housing of our senior citizens. The design offers a wide variety of high quality facilities, like restaurants, cafe's, jeux de boulles fields, a swimming pool and other sport fields together with a large number of highly efficient housing units.

Because of a different daily-routine of senior citizens and other age groups the facilities can be shared. Making the facilities more profitable and efficient. While giving the financial possibilities to make them more qualitative. Yet the senior citizens can benefit from other age groups coming to their complex, in staying in contact with society. We don't believe in 'gated communities' for our senior citizens, we prefer to keep them involved with modern society.

Design:        Ramon Knoester, Ana Francisco

Location:     Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Program:      691 housing units, 4 restaurants, 1 pub/cafe, 2 lounge cafe,                   1 internet cafe, 1 cinema(2 rooms), 1 dance school,

                  1 swimming pool, 3 tennis court, 2 sport field,

                   1 fitness centre, 4 laundry, 5 retail

M2:             15.740m2 floor area

Period:         2004

Prizes:         Honourable mention in New Aging Award 2010

                   University of Pennsylvania, USA

    

TIMELINE USE OF FACILITIES