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The Life Cycle House. Creating Housing That Bridges the Generations. The Life Cycle House: Creating Housing that Bridges the Generations. Andre Ballard Ballard Architectural Studio Oxford, OH Greta Winbush, Ph.D. Central State University Wilberforce,OH. Introduction.
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The Life Cycle House Creating Housing That Bridges the Generations
The Life Cycle House:Creating Housing that Bridges the Generations Andre Ballard Ballard Architectural Studio Oxford, OH Greta Winbush, Ph.D. Central State University Wilberforce,OH
Introduction Life Cycle House
Life Cycle House Introduction Creation of the Seminar and book, The Life Cycle House is a discussion about housing for multi-generational households.
Life Cycle House Introduction A multi-generational household is typically made up of parents, grandparents and children of various ages. Sometimes it also includes aunts, uncles and other family members. Family Courtyard (mother in-law suite right side of courtyard)
What is a Life Cycle House? My Story
What is a Life Cycle House? The basic definition of a Life Cycle House is that it is a dwelling that is designed to house at least three (3) or more generations of family members. Mother in-law suite Main house Family Courtyard
My Story In 1968 my family moved from Detroit to Toledo
My Story We landed at my families street in Toledo, Ohio
My Story Aunt & Uncle’s family house Our Multi-Generational Household Grandparents house My families home
What is a Life Cycle House? Contextual Foundations
What is the Life Cycle? • The life cycle of the average person is made up of seven stages in their life. • The stages are infant, young child, youngster, youth, young adult, adult, and elderly person. • Each of these stages are periods of chronological change in a persons life. • Each of these stages has important settings, and as well, rites of passage. • The important settings of each stage are as follows:
What is the Life Cycle? Important Settings per Life Cycle*: • Infant - Home, crib, nursery, garden • Young child - Own place, couple’s realm, children’s realm, commons, connected play • Child - Play space, own place, common land, neighborhood, animals • Youngster - Children’s home, school, own place, adventure play, club, community • Youth - Cottage, teenage society, hostels, apprentice, town, region • Young Adult - Household, couple’s realm, small work group, the family, network of learning • Adult - Work community, the family, town hall, a room of one’s own • Elderly - Settled work, cottage, the family, independent regions * Taken from the book - A Pattern Language, page 144. Three (3) generations in a family
Elder Lifecycle Adult Lifecycles Children Life Cycles Teen/Youth Lifecycle
Life Cycle House Maturing in Each Stage • There are dependent and independent relationships that have a bearing on each stage of growth. • We call this growth maturity. • We also call not growing, immaturity.
Life Cycle House Maturing in Each Stage • Discussions about the maturation process has a few schools of thought. • What is clear is there is a maturation process that we all go through in each lifecycle.
The Needs/Benefits The Life Cycle House
Challenges Confronting Families • Economic sufficiency • Family solidarity • Family legacy • Aging in place (infancy to older adulthood) • Home modifications • Home development (multigenerational housing) • Caregiving across the life cycle • Day care to eldercare
HETs is a health services intervention project purposed to eliminate health disparities among African Americans and other minority groups through health research and health technology Greta Winbush, Ph.D. Center for Allaying Health Disparities through Research and Education (CADRE) and the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Central State University Leon McDougle, M.D., M.P.H. College of Medicine, The Ohio State University
On-Line Health Channel (OHC) • OHC is a virtual health venue creating opportunities for increased clinical encounters, health education, and technology integration around chronic disease treatment and management for older African Americans and their providers • The OHC, the first of its kind and specific to African American elders and their doctors, will contain health information tools, an e-communication mechanism, and social networking capacities • OHC will facilitate health communication, health knowledge, and computer skill building among African American elderly and their physicians
Strategies The Life Cycle House
Famous Multi-Generational Household The Waltons
Strategies: Moving from fiction to fact.Moving from the Walton’s to the ‘Your Name’ A Life Cycle House
Our Goal is House designs – that promote renewal and family living Can a multi-generational house help or harm a family crisis?
Wisdom may be what we need We need a solution that is saturated with wisdom
Strategies & Solutions This family strategy was to live as a multi-generational household. Their creative solution is a mother in-law suite off a rear courtyard. There is no direct indoor connection from the mother in-law suite. Endless possibilities! Mother in-law suite Main house Family Courtyard
Strategies & Solutions One (1) Kitchen with shared meals
Strategies & Solutions One (1) Formal Living area
Life Cycle House Design Separate Mother In-Law Suite, shared meals and shared formal living area 1st Floor Plan
Life Cycle House Shared Kitchen
Life Cycle House Elevator for aging in place
Life Cycle House Elevator for aging in place
Life Cycle House Design This home was design for a family with a handicap person living there in a wheel chair This however is the perfect design for a life cycle house 1st Floor Plan
Life Cycle House Design This home was design for a family with a handicap person living there in a wheel chair This however is the perfect design for a life cycle house 2nd Floor Plan
Life Cycle House Three Generations of family members Father and mother Mother In-Law Children
Life Cycle House Three Generations of family members Father and mother Mother In-Law Children
Life Cycle House Three Generations of family members Father and mother Mother In-Law Children
Life Cycle House Three Generations of family members Father and mother Mother In-Law Children
Life Cycle House Design Optional Elevator for aging in place Original Design Alternate Design
Life Cycle House Design Optional Elevator for aging in place Original Design Alternate Design
Multi-Generational Household https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpmRcP8S7Bo “Your Family Name”
Questions/Answers The Life Cycle House