Care / Community

Spaces for Ageing

A shared community spine brings places for care, movement, cooking and gardening into everyday contact.

Focus: Everyday care and connection
Approach: A shared linear spine
Program: Housing, shared facilities and gardens

Spaces for Ageing studies how architecture can support everyday care through shared space. A central route connects living spaces with a clinic, pool, gym, cooking lab, gardens and a bookshop, bringing different daily activities into a connected community.

Low timber buildings and planted outdoor spaces create a rhythm of gathering and retreat. Shared kitchens, a greenhouse and spaces for movement offer varied ways to spend time together while maintaining a close relationship with the landscape.

People spending time on the lawn beside low timber buildings with curved roofs. — Shared outdoor space between the buildings.

Shared kitchen and dining tables beneath an exposed timber roof facing the garden. — Cooking and eating as shared daily rituals.

Indoor pool beneath a timber pitched roof with full-height windows to the landscape. — A place for movement and recovery.

Accessible path through planting beds inside a sunlit timber greenhouse. — Gardening and a close relationship with the seasons.

Long timber corridor with skylights connecting rooms and shared spaces. — The shared spine as an everyday route.

Program diagrams comparing clustered functions with a linear organisation from private to public. — From separate functions to a connected community.

Exploded axonometric drawing showing roof, timber skeleton and mapping of the buildings. — The structural layers of the community.

Master plan showing gardens and linked buildings along a central community walkway. — A linear organisation connects rooms, gardens and shared facilities.

General floor plan of rooms and shared facilities arranged along a central corridor. — Rooms and shared facilities along the central spine.

Longitudinal section through clinic, apartments, cooking lab, gym and changing room. — A section through the community's connected daily spaces.

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