Utilising Space in Sheltered Housing or 'Fitting a Quart into a Pint Pot

Perspectives of Architects and Older People

Bibliographic Data

ID4475868
AuthorsEileen Fairhurst (Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume18
Issue6
Pages761-776
Publication date2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d36j
OpenAlexW2041466825
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

The author, using textual analysis of architects' professional discourse and interviews with older people, examines their different perspectives on space utilisation in sheltered housing. Both designers and older people approach this matter by way of commonsense usages of home as a physical location and as a location in space. The differences between these individuals are explicated in terms of Schutz's notion of anonymous typifications. It is shown that architectural design briefs involve making predictions about the future lives of residents of sheltered housing. This results in a range of anonymous typifications informing architects' views on space utilisation. By contrast, when older people talk about their future lives in sheltered housing and space utilisation they rely upon features of their individual biographies: matters from which architects are inevitably excluded

Aesthetics · Architectural engineering · Art · Epistemology · Older people · Sociology · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Computer Science · Engineering · Medicine · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Gerontology

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