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Age friendly indoor built environment
Veronika Kotradyová¹*, Zuzana Čerešňová² , Ľubica Volanská³
1 BCDlab, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology, Námestie Slobody 19, 81245 Bratislava, Slovakia,
veronika.kotradyova@stuba.sk
2 CEDA, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology, Námestie Slobody 19, 81245 Bratislava, Slovakia,
zuzana.ceresnova@stuba.sk
3 Institute of Ethnology and Social Antropology, Slovak Academy of Science, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava Bratislava,
lubica.volanska@savba.sk
* Corresponding author
The paper offers an overview of the results of project ERASMUS+ DESIRE – DESIGN FOR ALL: METHODS TO
CREATE AGE-FRIENDLY HOUSING, done by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. It deals particularly with
useful recommendations for designing the built environment indoor and outdoor by preventing ageism.
It questions the meaning of an age-friendly environment from a social perspective as well.
It offers some solutions on how to design the built environment in a way to prevent health and social problems.
This paper questions the role of universal design/design for all and adaptive housing in combination with other
approaches of human-centred and body-conscious design.
It offers recommendations for social inclusion solutions and support of socialising by maintaining security and
privacy/intimacy, rethinking sitting culture and motivation for natural movement, complex active ageing. It
explores also the main benefits and solutions for keeping pets and age-friendliness. It emphasises the conflict
of maintenance vs authenticity and biophilic experience. It shows good practice examples of age-friendly
environments and no-ageism design.
Keywords: age-friendliness, universal design, adaptive housing, social inclusion, sitting culture, pets
Acknowledgement:This work was supported by project ERASMUS+ DESIRE – DESIGN FOR ALL: METHODS
TO CREATE AGE-FRIENDLY HOUSING
REFERENCES
Kotradyová, V., Lipovac, D. Hencová, M. 2023. Module 4 - AGE-FRIENDLY BUILT ENVIRONMENT – INTERIOR,
http://www.bcdlab.eu/projekty/DESIRE/DESIRE_Module-4_Unit-1.pdf
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Veronika Kotradyová¹*, Zuzana Čerešňová² , Ľubica Volanská³
1 BCDlab, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology, Námestie Slobody 19, 81245 Bratislava, Slovakia,
veronika.kotradyova@stuba.sk
2 CEDA, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology, Námestie Slobody 19, 81245 Bratislava, Slovakia,
zuzana.ceresnova@stuba.sk
3 Institute of Ethnology and Social Antropology, Slovak Academy of Science, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava Bratislava,
lubica.volanska@savba.sk
* Corresponding author
The paper offers an overview of the results of project ERASMUS+ DESIRE – DESIGN FOR ALL: METHODS TO
CREATE AGE-FRIENDLY HOUSING, done by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. It deals particularly with
useful recommendations for designing the built environment indoor and outdoor by preventing ageism.
It questions the meaning of an age-friendly environment from a social perspective as well.
It offers some solutions on how to design the built environment in a way to prevent health and social problems.
This paper questions the role of universal design/design for all and adaptive housing in combination with other
approaches of human-centred and body-conscious design.
It offers recommendations for social inclusion solutions and support of socialising by maintaining security and
privacy/intimacy, rethinking sitting culture and motivation for natural movement, complex active ageing. It
explores also the main benefits and solutions for keeping pets and age-friendliness. It emphasises the conflict
of maintenance vs authenticity and biophilic experience. It shows good practice examples of age-friendly
environments and no-ageism design.
Keywords: age-friendliness, universal design, adaptive housing, social inclusion, sitting culture, pets
Acknowledgement:This work was supported by project ERASMUS+ DESIRE – DESIGN FOR ALL: METHODS
TO CREATE AGE-FRIENDLY HOUSING
REFERENCES
Kotradyová, V., Lipovac, D. Hencová, M. 2023. Module 4 - AGE-FRIENDLY BUILT ENVIRONMENT – INTERIOR,
http://www.bcdlab.eu/projekty/DESIRE/DESIRE_Module-4_Unit-1.pdf
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