Thursday, March 25, 2010

Community Village: User Needs

Elderly

User Characteristic: loss of muscle mass and strength, creating fatigue

Design Solution: seating should be abundant and convienece necessary

User Characteristic: loss of sensitivity to light, loss of color sensitivity, difficulty seeing little variation between light and dark

Design Solution: wayfinding design , higher contrast materials, visibility from room to room, choice of materials, lighting and finishes

User Characteristic: loss of calcium and other nutrients

Design Solution: vitamins and high calcium and nutrient foods in convience store

User Characteristic: depression

Design Solution: social interaction areas, group activities and open floor plan creating sense of community

User Characteristic: social luncheons, movies, excursions-

Design Solution: provide multi-pupose room for activities and establish volunteer group to organize trips

User Characteristic: privacy need

Design Solution: provide some private spaces such as multi purpose room closing off and conference room on 2nd floor

User Characteristic: sensitivity to changes in temperature

Design Solution: smaller common areas with manual temperature controls, larger areas more constant temperature average tolerable by all occupants


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