

Ageing-Well Design
Design approaches that support physical, mental and social wellbeing for aging populations.
Ruth Uanzekin-Portfolio-2025
A collection of 3 projects completed for studio and competition briefs, ranging from retail to hospitality.
Rethinking Eldercare Spaces : Towards an Architecture of Inclusion, Purpose and Dignity.
The research explores how the social stigma associated with eldercare spaces affects the well-being of older adults. The study investigates how spatial design can play a role in addressing the emotional and social needs of the elderly, which are often neglected, and how human-centered design can alleviate feelings of existential homelessness. This study suggests eldercare spaces not as sterile and isolated, but as participatory environments to help elders feel valued, connected, and at home.
Rethinking Eldercare Spaces : Towards an Architecture of Inclusion, Purpose and Dignity.
Should spaces of eldercare simply be about shelter, or should they be about creating spaces where elderly can continue to belong, contribute, and feel valued?
Rethinking Eldercare Spaces : Towards an Architecture of Inclusion, Purpose and Dignity.
The project focuses on a framework four principles to help guide, design and rethink eldercare institutions, merely places for the abandoned, to be reimagined as places of dignified living with purpose and inclusion, recognizing elders as active and valued members of our society.
Co-Life
‘Healing garden’, public square, market street and intergenerational workshops could bring older people into the urban mix and reduce the level of social isolation. The applications of sustainable principles aim to reduce the building’s ecological footprint and deliver a self-sufficient (zero carbon) community.
Evergreen - Elderly day centre
The project proposes an Elderly Day Centre in Kraków that promotes healthy ageing, inclusion, and community interaction. Connected public spaces, landscaped gardens, a woonerf street, and accessible architecture create a welcoming hub with spaces for rest, learning, activities, and events, strengthening links within the Wesoła district.
Wild Atlantic Wellness Centre
The Wild Atlantic Wellness Centre is designed as a calming, human-centred environment that supports mental wellbeing through spatial experience, materiality, and connection to nature. The design brings together café, library, and therapy spaces to encourage movement, choice, social interaction, and quiet reflection.
RETURN TO SOCIETY
Taking relieving the state of solitude in the elderly and the experience inheritance between the elderly and young people as the entry point, the building uses diet as a medium to connect older people to other people. The overhead buildings not only provide a better view, but contribute to the reduction of the impact of buildings on the natural environment.
Riyadh For All
Intergenerational Co-Living for Elders of Rabat.
Fi rrihlath
an endless voyage
Good conceptualization with lively cad design. Great to see such talent.
feels like heaven
Excellent design
Studio 10 Weaves a Village Elderly Daycare Center from Yao and Hakka Building Traditions in Northern Guangdong
In Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, an ochre-toned complex of colonnades and courtyards reimagines rural elderly care as communal life.
i needplan adult care center