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Belčič, A. & Eloy, S. (2023). Architecture for community-based ageing – A shape grammar for transforming typical single-family houses into old people's cohousing. Buildings. 13 (2)

A. Belčič and S. E. Rodrigues,  "Architecture for community-based ageing – A shape grammar for transforming typical single-family houses into old people's cohousing", in Buildings, vol. 13, no. 2, 2023

@article{belčič2023_1731980134144,
	author = "Belčič, A. and Eloy, S.",
	title = "Architecture for community-based ageing – A shape grammar for transforming typical single-family houses into old people's cohousing",
	journal = "Buildings",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "13",
	number = "2",
	doi = "10.3390/buildings13020453",
	url = "https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/2/453"
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Architecture for community-based ageing – A shape grammar for transforming typical single-family houses into old people's cohousing
T2  - Buildings
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
AU  - Belčič, A.
AU  - Eloy, S.
PY  - 2023
SN  - 2075-5309
DO  - 10.3390/buildings13020453
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/2/453
AB  - In Slovenia, the existing organised housing infrastructure for people over 65 years of age is in-sufficient and lacks diversification. Older people are often homeowners, many of whom dwell in large, underused single-family houses that require adaptations. Some have the potential to be transformed into small co-housing communities of 3–6 older people. The houses in question are mostly pattern-book houses of various types, built in the first decades after WWII. To approach the problem of converting this mass resource while providing enough flexibility for individual customisation, a shape grammar was proposed, with the intension of expanding the range of design variations for the transformation of single-family houses and presenting them to both users and architects for further assessment. The shape grammar was inferred based on a corpus of case studies developed by architecture students across two weeklong workshops. Three general strategies emerged—splitting the house vertically (according to sleeping/private and liv-ing/communal functions), horizontally, or with the maximum number of sleeping/private spaces. Essential spaces were catalogued to determine the conditions and requirements for assigning every transformation rule. The result was a simple, yet versatile composition generator. Through the development of a user-friendly interface, this resource could be used to empower potential inhabitants in the transformation design process.
ER  -