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The ageing population demands designing environments while considering their functional needs, desires and wishes. The ICF framework together with the gerontechnological principles can help to have focus on how to adjust or to (re)design the environment for this population. This paper focuses on building-related environmental factors including eHealth solutions. Knowledge and understanding of how the environment is perceived by older people help to set the building performance requirements and gives direction to Improve our research to create healthy environments for future users.
Master's Thesis at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Faculty 1: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics, Master Program "Urban Agglomerations".
Abstract
Digital media today enables people to connect easily with each other,
no matter where they may be in the world. It is also a means of
connecting with the world, particulary in contemporary urban
environments. However, given the relentless and rather stressful
nature of modern city life, digital media has often been perceived as
a distraction, or as something that ‘displaces’ people, thus preventing
the formation of fulfilling or more enriching connections with places.
Thus, this thesis is an investigation into the potential of existing and
emergent digital media in enabling a sense of place in an urban
environment. This is achieved via a comprehensive review of
literature pertaining to human experience of space and place,
characterizing the role of technology and digital media as a mediator
of human-world/environment relations, identification of relevant
examples of media that can aid this process, followed by the
contextualization of the study and the formulation of digital
strategies that will enable the creation of a sense of place in the
selected context. It was determined that the creation of an integrated
digital platform will allow users to gain a sense of place by combining
the potential of social, locative, and interactive media, which further
creates a foundation for place awareness through exploration and
experience, place attachment through participation and inclusion, as
well as place memory - which in essence is a sense of place. In
conclusion, it was determined that digital media can indeed aid the
creation of sense of place in an urban environment.
Connected ambient assistance systems support elderly people - or people in need of care - for a self-determined, healthy and safe living in their familiar home until very old age. The systems typically communicate with nursing relatives or remote professional caregiving providers. The basic functions of stationary assistance systems include the detection of a) falls and b) deviant behavior indicating a health hazard. These kernel tasks of assistance have been amended in the course of time by a plenitude of more general assistant functions. Wearable devices, like programmable smartwatches, extend the reach of stationary assistance beyond the spatial boundaries of the familiar home. They extend the scope of wellbeing monitoring by analyzing the wearer’s heart rate in relation to the current physical activity and can also verify sufficient liquid ingestion, drinking, thus compensating the diminishing natural sensation of thirst at increasing age. Home robots also extend the scope of wellbeing monitoring within the home and relieve from the necessity of a comprehensive sensoric instrumentation of the home. So far, ambient assistant systems can primarily provide assistance only in the physiological dimension. Cognitive ambient assistance, which allows the participation in the social communication on an equal footing, today is beyond their abilities. The advances in artificial intelligence are about to change the picture. From an economic point of view, the dissemination and success of assistance systems has been slowed down within the last decade by lacking wide-spread interaction standards as well as the shortage of necessary multivalent utility of such systems. In contrast, the smart home concept offering increased comfort and sustainability has gained a lot of attractivity in the same time. Therefore, commercially successful assistance systems must provide their utility in all three dimensions: assistance, but also simultaneously in comfort/safety and sustainability.
Objective: This best-practice example shows the positive effect on the behavior of a mentally disabled client with significant behavioral problems after the custom-made change in his built environment. Background: Healthcare organizations are often faced with the difficulty of creating a built environment that has a positive effect on the mental well-being of the users. Ipse de Bruggen is a healthcare organization that offers care and support for the mentally handicapped. They look after clients who need additional individual support due to their behavioral problems and have developed new care concepts for this over the years. With regard to the built environment, however, they found in individual cases that the living environment does not suit the client. The rooms are bare and devoid of atmosphere. It seems that in many cases this has led to even more aggression and destruction. A negative spiral. The organization saw the need to change this and in 2011 commissioned Andrea Möhn Architects, formerly Möhn + Bouman Architects, to examine the built environment and the needs of individual users with major behavioral problems. Methods: The findings are based on the architects’ many years of experience with regard to the target group, a precise observation of the behavior of the user in his personal space as well as interviews with the staff from November 2011 to April 2012. Results: Based on the observations the architects created a tailor-made environment that had a very positive effect on the behavior of the user and thus also on his family, the care staff and the organization. Conclusions: The best practice example shows that for clients with severe behavioral problems a personalized and humanized approach seemed to be the right approach, rather than a flexible spatial solution. The redesigned space gave the client a sense of control, pride, dignity and a sense of well-being. Inspired by this success, the organization started the project "Physical environment, a fixed value in our care” in 2020. Within four years, twelve rooms will be redesigned and their effects on users will be scientifically researched.
Abstract
The global problem with drinking water supply has increased considerably in recent decades, mainly due to accelerated population growth and unsustainable use of non-renewable resources. Ciudad Juarez, located on the northern border between Mexico and the United States, has not been excluded from this problem. Its desert characteristics and low rainfall accentuate the need for a change in water management. This paper presents water-sensitive urban design measures to help combat climate change and water scarcity problems in Ciudad Juarez.
Work Package 7:
Integrating the Rapid Planning Methodology into Spatial Planning and Urban Development Procedures
D-07
Review of the Urban Development in Frankfurt am Main and the Lessons Learned for Trans-sectoral Planning
Work Package 7:
Integrating Rapid Planning Methodology into Spatial Planning and Urban Development Procedures
Task - 7.1: Review of Spatial Planning and Urban Development Systems
Task 7.2: Identification and Documentation of Sustainable Urban Development Goals
Deliverable - 7.1/7.2:
Documentation and Review of Spatial Planning Systems and Urban Development Goals in Assiut, Egypt