Increasing urbanization has given rise to the phenomena of vertical aging: seniors downsizing into apartment buildings, co-ops and condos not originally built for seniors.
Working together with our partners at UHN’s Open Lab, this report studies this trend from a spatial stand point to understand the architectural characteristics of these buildings and how we might modify them to adapt to their new users.
Cite: Humanics, & UHN OpenLab (2020). Vertical Aging: The Future of Aging in Place in Urban Canada, Social Spaces (No. 3). UHN OpenLab.
http://verticalaging.uhnopenlab.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2020/09/SocialSpaces_20-09-16.pdf
︎ Kathleen Fu
︎ Jonathan Enns
︎ UHN OpenLab
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Working together with our partners at UHN’s Open Lab, this report studies this trend from a spatial stand point to understand the architectural characteristics of these buildings and how we might modify them to adapt to their new users.
Cite: Humanics, & UHN OpenLab (2020). Vertical Aging: The Future of Aging in Place in Urban Canada, Social Spaces (No. 3). UHN OpenLab.
http://verticalaging.uhnopenlab.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2020/09/SocialSpaces_20-09-16.pdf
︎ Kathleen Fu
︎ Jonathan Enns
︎ UHN OpenLab
<download report>
Using off the shelf geodesic connectors from ‘Hubs’, Humanics produced a set of carefully detailed Oak dowels to complete an ‘enclosure kit’ for a 4.5m dia geodesic frame.
These were sized to allow domestic shipping and have been sent off to the Arctic via Canada Post and are now awaiting assembly.
︎ Jessie Croll
︎ Jonathan Enns
These were sized to allow domestic shipping and have been sent off to the Arctic via Canada Post and are now awaiting assembly.
︎ Jessie Croll
︎ Jonathan Enns
Researchers:
2022 Natalie Kopp
2021 Kathleen Fu
2020 Maighdlyn Hadley
2019 Aleks Gontarz
2018 Jessie Croll
2022 Natalie Kopp
2021 Kathleen Fu
2020 Maighdlyn Hadley
2019 Aleks Gontarz
2018 Jessie Croll
©Humanics Lab 2020
jonathan.enns@uwaterloo.ca