Universal Design for the Home: Great Looking, Great Living Design for All Ages, Abilities, and Circumstances
by Wendy A. Jordan
from Quarry Books
Universal Design for the Home features a blend of beautiful projects, creative ideas, and substantive planning information. Highly visual, the book features projects showing room contexts, as well as detail shots. The mix of projects encompasses small and large houses; one-story and multi-story houses; and ideas for general accessibility and comfort as well as some targeted more directly at handicap accessibility. There is an emphasis on remodeled projects, but new homes designed with an eye toward accessibility -- present and future -- are included as well. Chapters cover the spectrum of accessible home planning, from room arrangements to kitchens, baths, entries, and exterior areas. The book displays fresh, inspiring design ideas as well as must-have, good-sense solutions, such as wider doorways. Basic specifications, how-to tips, and other technical content are featured throughout the book in easy-to-find boxes and sidebars.
Wellness Centers: A Guide for the Design Professional (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)
by Joan Whaley Gallup
from Wiley
Bringing together the best aspects of ambulatory care, complementary medicine, and fitness clubs under one roof, wellness centers are poised to become an essential vehicle of healthcare delivery for the 21st century. Although wellness-based programs have been instituted by nearly every hospital system in North America, very little has been published on this rapidly emerging building type.
Wellness Centers enables design professionals and others to understand the fitness and healthcare requirements of these facilities, and to address them effectively in their work.
Providing essential insights into balancing the healthcare and retail demands of wellness centers, Joan Whaley Gallup reviews every step of the planning and development process, addressing project assessment, financing, programming, and marketing. She draws on her extensive expertise in creating wellness centers to cover a full range of development and design considerations, including design guidelines for lobby/waiting areas, clinical space, administrative areas, pools, saunas, and indoor gardens. Finally, an inspiring project portfolio profiles an impressive roster of successful wellness centers from around the world.
With useful information on code compliance, plus floor plans, schematic designs, and more, this book is a vital professional resource for anyone involved in wellness center design, planning, or management.
"The wellness center is the most positive, nurturing, life-affirming building type ever to evolve in the history of healthcare facilities design. . . . By turning inside out the trends of past centuries, we can now focus on wellness. We can create buildings that will nurture and sustain us, healing environments that will serve to support happy, life-enhancing activities. Centers for wellness are centers for life."-from the Preface
The first book of its kind, Wellness Centers offers design professionals and others complete cutting-edge coverage of these complex new facilities, from planning and development issues to design guidelines and case examples of successful wellness centers from around the world. Written by an architect with extensive experience in the field, this book provides a firm foundation in wellness center design, planning, and management-essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly growing area of healthcare design.
The Accessible Housing Design File
Architecture The Accessible Housing Design File Barrier Free Environments, Inc. ". an invaluable resource to everyone involved with the design, construction, and management of housing for older and disabled individuals. The amount of information on each topics is the most extensive I have ever seen.." --Elaine Ostroff, Adaptive Environments Center Boston, Massachusetts New legislation on accessibility has made it tough for designers and builders to create environments that are both aesthetically pleasing and accommodate people with disabilities The Accessible Housing Design File helps you comply with the latest accessibility standards and keep up with the increasing demand for more universal housing. Responding to the accessibility standards established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Amendments Act (FHAA), this guide covers the special design and construction considerations of environments for people with mobility impairments. It also contains some design solutions to access problems for people with visual and hearing impairments. Both interior and exterior environments are addressed in chapters that take you from site planning through selection of door hardware. Site designs, room layouts, floor plans, jargon-free explanations, and 300 detailed illustrations convey whole settings and provide you with fully dimensioned solutions to tough design problems. These design solutions will help you to create new housing as well as renovate existing single- and multi-family residences to increase accessibility. The Accessible Housing Design File emphasizes both universally usable and marketable environments that have excellent resale value. It covers the full gamut of accessible design and construction options for:
* Vehicular transportation and parking--Accessible vans, carports, and garages
* Site design and entrances--House placement, sloping sites, walks, crossings, bridges, lifts, ramps, and handrails
* Doors and doorways--Handles, locks, power openers, hallways, floor space, screen and storm doors, door widening, and door swings
* Windows--Forward reach and side reach windows, power operators, and windows as exits
* Kitchens--Knee and turnaround space, adjustable-height cabinets and counters, appliance siting, and control and handle placement
* Bathrooms--Grab bars, hydraulic seats, portable boom lifts, overhead track lifts, removable tub seats, tub controls, transfer and roll-in showers, and lavatory design
* Bedrooms--Maneuvering space and clearances, transfers at beds, lifts, communications and control systems, emergency exits, and equipment storage
As the percentage of elderly in our population increases and the civil rights of America's 43 million disabled citizens become better recognized, the need to create versatile environments that meet the needs of all potential users will continue to grow. This guide helps meet that need, making it essential reading for professional housing designers, specialists in aging and rehabilitation, and others involved in the design, manufacture, and construction of housing.
Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment
by Ellen D Taira
from Routledge
Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As an occupational therapist, designer, architect, planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, you will explore innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for the elderly by offering them these state of the art designs that provide independence and dignity.
Beautiful Universal Design: A Visual Guide
The freedom to go beyond compliance . . . Following in the successful footsteps of the award-winning book, Beautiful Barrier-Free, universal design experts Cynthia A. Leibrock and James Evan Terry present a fresh generation of flexible design solutions in Beautiful Universal Design. Combining coverage of full design installations for a wide variety of settings with an in-depth examination of individual elements that range from exterior landscaping and approach to interior finishes, furnishings, signage, and more, this superb visual guide is an inspiring idea resource to creatively integrate people of all ages and abilities.
Senior Residences: Designing Retirement Communities for the Future (Wiley Series in Healthcare and Senior Living Design)
by John E. Harrigan
from Wiley
A comprehensive framework for capitalizing on the growing market for Continuing Care Retirement Communities.
Senior Residences equips architects and other industry professionals with a proven executive strategy for the design and development of successful Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) projects. Using two of America's foremost CCRCs as best practice case studies, it guides readers through every critical aspect of the process, from research and planning through construction, including:
* The enterprise concept
* Formation of an executive organization
* Financial and legal due diligence
* Marketing and sales preparation
* Residents' expectations and requirements
* Healthcare and residential services
* The design and build process
* Project monitoring and assessment.
The over-65 population is increasing rapidly and dramatically, raising crucial concerns about the housing and care of senior citizens in the years ahead. How can we provide the best possible quality of care to the elderly? How can architects, developers, and others capitalize on the growing senior housing industry and stay competitive in the future? How can the facilities they create deliver both good service and strong financial returns?
While there are no easy answers to these important questions, the Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) model has emerged as a flexible and attractive option for providing combined housing, services, and nursing care to the elderly. Senior Residences equips architects and other industry professionals with a comprehensive, three-part strategic framework for designing and developing successful CCRC projects.
Part I identifies the eight critical success factors of a CCRC enterprise and illustrates them through an in-depth examination of two exemplary developments, The Cypress of South Carolina's Hilton Head Island and The Stratford in the San Francisco Peninsula. Part II details a computer-based "standard of performance" system to track progress and assess project performance. Finally, Part III examines how to use different types of research to stay on top of market trends and forecasts, legal and licensing requirements, and more.
Together, the three elements of this executive strategy cover every aspect of the development process, from the initial enterprise concept and executive organization building to financial and legal due diligence, marketing and sales, residents' services and healthcare, and design and build. Readers gain essential guidance in tackling key project management issues as well as in developing effective problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Written by an author team with extensive CCRC experience, Senior Residences helps encourage avenues of thought that will lead to more cohesive, responsive, and successful CCRC projects that benefit the professionals who build them and the residents who live in them.
Gracious Spaces
by Irma Dobkin
from McGraw-Hill Professional
- The first-ever book to offer architects, interior designers, builders, and others workable implementation strategies for accessible living for the aged or disabled
- Includes before-and-after living plans and photographs that demonstrate how to transform any interior living space into a comfortable, attractive, barrier-free environment
High Access Home: Design and Decoration for Barrier-Free Living
by Charles A. Iii Riley
from Rizzoli
Proving that accessibility and elegance need not be mutually exclusive, High-Access Home is filled with high-end interiors embodying the best of barrier-free living. Aimed at minimizing the effort needed to accomplish everyday tasks, Universal Design strives for buildings and products that can be used by the broadest possible range of people. Rather than such using obvious hallmarks of accessibility as a conspicuous ramp shooting straight up to the front door or the stainless-steel grab bars reminiscent of a hospital, Universal Design overlays the user-friendly with the stylish, melding aesthetics and practicality.
With beautiful photos and intelligent text, the volume analyzes what makes these spaces so successful and offers suggestions for incorporating the ideas into your own home. Most of the dwellings featured here are fairly luxurious, with elaborate decor and extensive renovations beyond many budgets, but there is also much helpful information for countless adaptations, such as shower seats, door levers, easy-access cabinets, and much more. This creative and carefully planned approach goes beyond Universal Design to become plain-old good design from which anyone can benefit. --Amy Handy
Welcome to the home of the future, courtesy of Universal Design, a new movement that's helping the disabled, the aged, pregnant women, and children live with ease and comfort. Think of the automatic garage door, which originated out of necessity for a client whose condition prevented him from lifting a heavy door. Now just imagine if your home was as easy to operate.
"High-Access Home" redefines the standards for home design today. Conveniently positioned sinks, grab bars in the shower, properly illuminated hallways, and remote controls for the window shades, adjustable kitchen counters are just some of the improvements shown in this illustrated volume. You'll never have to reach for a light switch or bend for an outlet again.
At first glance, a home that follows the principles of Universal Design does not look any different from a traditional, well-crafted home. A connoisseur of the user-friendly Universal Design home appreciates its invisibility as much as its functionality. Subtle differences are its hallmark-with levers instead of knobs on doors, with wider hallways and doors, non-slip floors in the bathroom, roomier garages, elevators, and touch pads, Universal Design is a silent revolution in simplifying life.
"High-Access Home" tours the top of the line homes that follow Universal Design, featuring both revamped old homes and newly-constructed ones as well. Tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Top Cottage or visit the Carroll Center for the Blind, which happens to be a renovated stable that's ultra-chic. Following this tour is a room-by-room breakdown of how to create the ideal home to make living easier. This chapter focuses in-depth on the entry, the living room, the bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom, and the home office, providing helpful tips on how to get started simplifying your home life. Additional resources for product manufacturers, non-profit organizations, and government organizations are provided in the appendix. If you are living with an aging parent, children, or you would like to "age in place," or have a disability, "High-Access Home" will provide advice, inspiration, and resources for barrier-free living.
Design for Dignity: Studies in Accessibility
by William L. Lebovich
from John Wiley & Sons
Universal Design Handbook
by Wolfgang Preiser
from McGraw-Hill Professional
*One-stop reference to both American and international universal design standards *CD-ROM includes new American with Disabilities Act code requirements, illustrated standards, checklists, and technical fact sheets, ready for downloading *Covers guidelines from buildings to telecommunications
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