Senior Living
Architectural and design approaches to housing, communities, and facilities for older adults.
Home On A Leaf
The senior center project in Kielnarowa combines residential, recreational, educational, and cultural functions, promoting an active and sustainable lifestyle. The complex consists of several buildings integrated into the landscape, surrounded by therapeutic gardens, fostering intergenerational integration and connection with nature.
Riad's: A Shortlisted Co-Life Entry That Scales the Moroccan Courtyard House into a Town for Elders
Riad's swaps the single institutional block for a network of courtyards, alleys, gardens, letting older residents choose how much of town life they join.
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.
Habitation - Vegetation
Food is a great unifier across every culture and is unique to every country. Focusing on food as an age-independent mutual interest, a platform was designed where food and skill oriented activities are provided; seniors can make use of their cultural habits and skills towards maintaining their independence, dignity as well as a balanced social life.
The Musturak Paradise: A Senior Co-Living Neighborhood That Trades the Care Home for the Souk
Shortlisted at Co-Life, a 2050 vision for Temara places elderly residents among souks, mosques, workshops and children rather than institutional walls.
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.
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.
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.
CO-LIFE: Senior Living Architecture for an Inclusive Elderly Community in Morocco
CO-LIFE reimagines senior living architecture in Morocco through accessible homes, shared spaces, care, connection, dignity and a community.
Root
Social progress cannot be separated from the efforts of generations. Although the age of the elderly is growing, their contributions to society can?t be forgotten. The significance of the elderly to the society is just as important as the root of a towering tree.
CO(mm)UNITY: A Senior Living Neighborhood That Turns Care Into Everyday Urban Life
A shortlisted Co-Life entry that breaks a perimeter block into courtyards, alleys and roof terraces where older residents share daily life.
Co-Life: Senior Housing That Grows Like a Neighbourhood and Keeps Older Adults in the City
A hexagonal, expandable cluster of homes, gardens, markets and care spaces that extends the surrounding street network instead of walling elders off.
Fi rrihlath
an endless voyage
Good conceptualization with lively cad design. Great to see such talent.
feels like heaven
Excellent design
Co-live: A Senior Living District in Rabat That Trades the Nursing Home for a Neighborhood
Vera Derzhavina's shortlisted Co-Life entry winds modular, low-rise blocks into streets, courtyards and shaded roofs for 4,000 older residents.
Circular Living Morocco: Senior Housing That Lets the City Walk Straight Through It
A shortlisted Co-Life entry that threads public paths through senior housing, turning daily circulation into a tool against isolation in Morocco.
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.
Co-life: A Senior Living Neighbourhood Built From Moroccan Craft, Riads and Berber Form
An Editor's Choice entry that treats elderly housing as a working neighbourhood, translating arches, domes and bazaar colour into daily social life.
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.
The Street of Life: Elderly Co-Living Organised Around the Social Life of the Moroccan Street
A Runner-up Co-Life entry in Temara, Morocco, uses the street, the riad courtyard and the market as a framework for independent, sociable senior living.
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.
I think this project captures the essence of shared living and the use of communal space. Very impressed
nice concept but the statics don't look stable. how is this building standing?
Module designing in the project is super good, great thought process