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Placemaking Concept
As populations age, there's an urgent need to create public spaces that support healthy aging and connect generations. This project focused on Särö, a growing suburb south of Gothenburg, where recent development has built housing and care facilities for different age groups — but without social or spatial integration. We worked with the area surrounding a new nursing home to explore how design interventions could activate the space, encourage physical activity and connection, and make it inclusive for elderly people and those with mobility challenges. The site’s scale and location offer great potential for shared, intergenerational use.
How can interventions in a public space connect people in the area and offer opportunities for physical activtity and social relationships? Can this lead to healthier elders who want to interact with the space and the people in the space?
Working with the area surrounding the new nursing home. A large area of 3 h with a large building of 8500 m2 with a height of 15 m. Around it, a few trees have been planted and a pond has been created for water collection.
The size and situation of the site enables many possilities to create spaces and opportunities activities for all generations, where the goal is to do this in a way that allow all generations to take part in the space, specifically the elderly and thise with mobility issues.
