Living For Old Age and Orphanage: Group Home, Noboribetsu Capslo Homeless Service Centre

Living for Old Age and Orphanage
AIM:
 The idea is to create an interactive platform between the old age homes
and orphanages.
 A space for interaction and a common shelter for two generations
Architectural Challenges:
 To provide its residents with a secure, relaxed and homely environment
in which their care, well-being and comfort of prime importance.
 Strive to preserve and maintain the dignity, individuality and privacy of
all residents.
 To provide warm and caring atmosphere.
 Being sensitive to the resident’s ever changing needs-medical, cultural,
psychological, spiritual, emotional and social.
 To segregate pedestrian and vehicular traffic within the living to ensure
more safety.
Core Values :
 Privacy
 Dignity
 Security
 Independence
 Fulfillment
Literature Case Study:

 Group Home, Noboribetsu
 Capslo Homeless Service Centre
Live Case Study:

 Ayudham Society, Chennai
 Anandha Ashram, Chennai
Objectives:
 This idea is to not evoke a sigh of pity.

 Providing opportunity to do all things that you wanted to do but got left
out in the hectic pace of work.
 A time to pursue your own interests, new hobbies but also your
independence and personal space.
 Provide a quality life which the orphans have been deprived off.
 Making children self-reliant through various vocational training
programs.
Symbiotic Relation :
Elders----------------------Kids
 Reduce psychological pain

Feeling of emptiness
Being unwanted
 Act as supportive pillars to each other
 Emotional needs – Love and Care
 Inculcate social and family values
 Improve quality of life
Potential Structure-Proposal:
 Split the old orphanage and old age population into mini-families such
that one or more kids are associated to each other of the old
person/couple but this is optional. The aged person/couple may not be
willing or physically able to take the responsibility. This should not be
burden but a source of enjoyment making their life meaningful.
 It should have its own resources and its own place to live within the
perimeter of the facility.
 There should be a common place to play study interact with other kids.
Relevance of the project in today’s context
68.42Lakh central zone (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh).number of orphan children in these places. In Uttar Pradesh about 6%
of the populations are orphans. Death of parents is 0.5%, remaining is
abandoned due to poverty. In India about 7.5%of the population is above 60
years. Life expectancy has been increased from 41years in 1951 to 64 years
today. Giving them a rich environment will reduce many abuses and clearing
out slums will be a major improvement for the state.
Criteria for choosing the Site:

 Availability of medical care
 Calm, pollution free environment
 Quiet, idyllic surroundings, where they have quick access to facilities in
the city.
Building Typology :
1. Administration block
 Office - Director
 Office – Head for the community
 Counseling Room
 Meeting Rooms
 Waiting Area
 Record Room
 Office
 Toilets
2. Kindergarten & Senior Secondary
 Classrooms
 Art/Craft Room
 Lecture Room
 Dance room
 Music Room
 Sports Room
 Recreation Room
 Auditorium
 Multipurpose hall
 Recreation Room
 Store Room
 Computer Labs
 Office – Principal
 Staff Rooms
 Toilets
3. Recreational Area
 Library and Reading Room

 Internet center
 Club Facilities
 Sports Room
 Toilets
4. Vocational Area
 Electronic Workshops
 Candle Workshop
 Handloom Workshops
 Cooking Workshops
 Jewelry Workshop
 Drawing and Painting Workshops
 Store Rooms
 Toilets
5. Housing
 Staffs Housing
 Single/Double Room Homes
 Dormitories
 Sports Room
 Common Lounges
 Guest Rooms
 In charge Rooms
 Caretaker Rooms
 Toilets
6. Dispensary
 Checkup Room
 Physiotherapy Room
 Laboratory Room
 Counseling Room
 Multi – Disability Room
 Medical Shop
 Storage
 Toilets

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Literature Case Study:

Live Case Study:

 This idea is to not evoke a sigh of pity.

 Reduce psychological pain

Criteria for choosing the Site:

2. Kindergarten & Senior Secondary

 Library and Reading Room

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