Housing and Care Cooperatives in the Netherlands
Spatial
Diagrams of Cluster Living
The project Housing and Care Cooperatives:
Spatial Diagrams of Cluster Living, investigates the typological
transformation of elderly accommodation into decentralised models of care in
place in the district. Currently, community-led networks such as Buurtzorg,
District Care, and care cooperatives are emerging in the Netherlands in an attempt by the government to encourage individual agency and
collectivise care responsibility.
The organisation of care in the home environment introduces typological questions about the design of the dwelling according to new protocols and procedures of care. How can the housing cooperative function as a framework to organise collectivised care-work, household activities and social support within the district? This dissertation argues for an investigation into the thresholds of dwelling (therapy, care-work, reproductive work and assistance) to challenge the segregation of people according to age and illness. Through a study of the parts of the home, the project translates common activities into zones of interaction, threshold conditions and forms of cluster living to redefine notions of intimacy, privacy and interior.
Dissertation
06.2018-06.2019
Taught MPhil Architectural Association London (Projective Cities)
Distinction
Tutors: Sam Jacoby, Platon Issaias, Hamed Khosravi and Mark Campbell.L
Link to AA Projective Cities website
Link to dissertation
The organisation of care in the home environment introduces typological questions about the design of the dwelling according to new protocols and procedures of care. How can the housing cooperative function as a framework to organise collectivised care-work, household activities and social support within the district? This dissertation argues for an investigation into the thresholds of dwelling (therapy, care-work, reproductive work and assistance) to challenge the segregation of people according to age and illness. Through a study of the parts of the home, the project translates common activities into zones of interaction, threshold conditions and forms of cluster living to redefine notions of intimacy, privacy and interior.
Dissertation
06.2018-06.2019
Taught MPhil Architectural Association London (Projective Cities)
Distinction
Tutors: Sam Jacoby, Platon Issaias, Hamed Khosravi and Mark Campbell.L
Link to AA Projective Cities website
Link to dissertation