Ageing-Well Design
Design approaches that support physical, mental and social wellbeing for aging populations.
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.
THE RING OF LIFE
On the premise of using the site plants, to promote the exchange of experience between the elderly and young people as the starting point, through the elderly friendly ramp, to create a space experience rich vertical space, with interesting functions and modeling, to attract people from the adjacent site to this public space.
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.
A thoughtful and humane thesis that reimagines eldercare as a place of dignity, belonging, and active living. With further refinement of accessibility and circulation, the strong social and spatial ideas could become an even more effective environment for elderly users.
THE LINK: A Decentralized Kit of Tools That Weaves Senior Living Into the Everyday City
Jacquelyn Hecker's Co-Life shortlisted entry scatters clinic, library, café and laundromat across the city so older adults stay part of public life.
h-age: A Senior Living Neighbourhood Where Rooms Change as Residents Age
Julia Marques stacks private rooms above a porous public ground floor and designs units that shift between single, double and couple occupancy.
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.
A strong and well-researched proposal that thoughtfully integrates elderly care, public space, landscape, and community interaction. The project demonstrates good contextual awareness and a well-resolved architectural response.
The project is highly functional, with very good circulation and clear, effective illustrations that enhance the overall presentation.
Fi Rrihlath: Scaling the Moroccan Riad into a Senior Living Community Built Around Movement
A People's Choice entry for Co-Life in Rabat that turns the courtyard house into concentric terraces, spiral ramps and shared ground for later life.
Riyadh For All: Rebuilding Rabat's Multigenerational Life Around the Riad Courtyard
An Editor's Choice entry to Co-Life that reads the Moroccan riad as a social system, pairing elders and young residents in an 85:15 shared community.
Ruth Uanzekin-Portfolio-2025
A collection of 3 projects completed for studio and competition briefs, ranging from retail to hospitality.
The Social Ring: A Moroccan Settlement Model That Treats Senior Housing as a Living Village
Narthana Renganathan traces an older settlement's paths to weave housing, farmland, courts and squares into an elderly community within one outer ring.
Ville Nouvelle Temara: Senior Living Built as a Walled Neighbourhood of Courtyards and Shared Rooms
Joshua Meier's shortlisted Co-Life entry folds homes, palm courtyards and public programmes into one Temara block to keep ageing residents in the city.
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.
Elderly House: A W-Shaped Senior Residence That Balances Privacy, Care and Community
A shortlisted Co-Life entry bends a senior residence into a W-shaped plan, pairing private rooms with gardens, rooftop pools and shared dining halls.
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?
sol89 Weaves a Porous Care Center Through a Korean Park to Redefine Paju's Periphery
A 12,560 m² wellness center for elderly and disabled residents channels the Korean madang through perforated volumes in Paju, South Korea.
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.
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.
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Fi rrihlath
an endless voyage
Good conceptualization with lively cad design. Great to see such talent.
feels like heaven
Excellent design
A calm and thoughtfully conceived wellness environment with a strong connection to nature and human experience. A deeper integration of daylight and lighting quality could further enrich its therapeutic character.