Building Type Basics for Senior Living - Hardcover

Perkins, Bradford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471226726 ISBN 13: 9780471226727

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Synopsis

Learn the essentials of designing housing and care environments for the elderly with this volume in The Building Type Basic Series.

• Includes material on active retirement communities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living facilities, Alzheimer′s facilities, hospices and more. 
• Thoroughly illustrated with descriptive floor plans, diagrams, and photographs, this practical guide is ideal for today′s design professionals.

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About this title

About the Author

BRADFORD PERKINS, FAIA, RAIC, AICP, is the founder of Perkins Eastman Architects, a New York based architectural, interior design, and planning firm with a national practice and branch offices in Pittsburgh, Stamford (Connecticut), Charlotte (North Carolina), Chicago, San Francisco, and Toronto (Canada). His firm s designs of senior living and care facilities, as well as other building types, have received many awards for design excellence and have been widely published.

J. DAVID HOGLUND, FAIA, is a senior principal and director of Perkins Eastman, and head of the firm s Pittsburgh office.

DOUGLAS KING, AIA, AICP, is a senior principal and director in Perkins Eastman s New York office.

ERIC COHEN, AIA, is a senior associate at Perkins Eastman.

STEPHEN A. KLIMENT, FAIA (Series Founder and Editor), is an architectural journalist and an adjunct professor at the City College of New York. He was chief editor of Architectural Record from 1990 to 1996.

From the Back Cover

The fastest way to straighten out the learning curve on specialized design projects

"The series is welcome . . . By providing recent buildings as examples, supported with technical information and charts of design criteria, these books attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice."
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Building Type Basics books provide architects, engineers, and facility planners with the essentials they need to jump–start the design of a variety of specialized facilities. In each volume, leading national figures in the field address the key questions that shape the early phases of a project commission. The answers to these questions provide instant information in a convenient, easy–to–follow format. The result is an excellent, hands–on reference that puts critical information at your fingertips.

Building Type Basics for Senior Living and Care is a rich resource of nuts–and–bolts guidelines and know–how for designing housing and care environments for the elderly. Written by leaders in the field, this highly visual guidebook offers project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details on a variety of building subtypes. This is an invaluable reference for everyone involved in the early stages of designing facilities for the over–65 population.

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Building Type Basics for Senior Living covers the essentials for the planning and design of housing and care environments for the elderly. Authored by architects whose firm has handled hundreds of such projects, this nuts–and–bolts guide provides need–to–know information on a range of building subtypes, including active adult communities, continuing care retirement communities, assisted living, adult day care, skilled nursing facilities, and more. The authors, pioneers in the field, offer highly illustrative examples of issues that are key to designing structures for the growing over–65 population.

This indispensable guide:

• Asks and answers twenty questions that frequently arise in the early phases of a commission
• Provides project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details
• Includes design guidelines for a variety of senior living projects, from creating a continuum of care to working through a maze of regulatory policies

This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluable guide for busy professionals who want to get moving quickly as they embark on a new project. Like every book in the Building Type Basics series, it provides authoritative, up–to–date information instantly and saves architects, facility planners, and their clients countless hours of research. Engineering consultants will also find in this volume a wealth of information to help them tackle senior living commissions of all kinds.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0471226726
• ISBN 13: 9780471226727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Hoglund J. David, King Douglas, Cohen Eric