Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   On Calle Mieses in Valladolid, the Neurocare Home Mieses complex proposes a model for old-age care in the post-Covid 19 era, one which deviates from the idea of floors with a central corridor opening to rooms on the right and left. Instead each floor

Santiago Vives Tomás Montis Adriana Clapés   Spain   In Pórtol, a rural town under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Marrachi, on the island of Majorca, stands this residence for elderly people. A compact building with a rectangular floorplan is organized around four garden courtyards that ensure

Burgos & Garrido   Spain   The Madrid practice of Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido has placed first in the competition to build a residence for seniors in Los Llanos de Aridane, a municipality on the Canarian island of La Palma. The scheme combines interior spaces of differe

CSO Arquitectura   Spain   Designed by CSO Arquitectura, headed by Antón Freile, this expansion of the elderly residence which the same Madrid firm built in 2005 in Camarzana de Tera (Zamora), at kilometer 127 of the road linking Benavente to Vigo, has been shortlisted in the

SUMA/ Issei Suma   Japan   Combining different functions and suggesting with its form the idea of a primitive hut or chapel, this small center for older people has been designed using innovative ergonomic strategies. 

Sergison Bates architects   Belgium   Using familiar materials and evoking the vernacular building types found in the area, the home constains a service center, a day care center, and 145 assisted-living apartments.

Dietger Wissounig Architekten   Austria   A large prefabricated volume built with larch wood  contains 104 rooms distributed in eight independent communities that share gardens and atriums, and open up to a shared plaza. 

Guedes Cruz Arquitectos    Portugal   Laid out with a sober modulation and inserted in a labyrinthine pattern evocative of a kasbah, the houses and main support building address the needs of elderly couples. 

Óscar Miguel Ares   Spain   The conventional concept of home for the elderly is replaced here by that of a village protected from the harsh landscape of Castile by a wall of concrete blocks.

Bonell & Gil Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   Distribuyéndose en tres cuerpos posados sobre un zócalo de usos mixtos, las viviendas organizan una parte de su programa en torno a un núcleo y abren el resto a una terraza. 

Junya Ishigami + associates   Japan   Underneath a firm structure that follows the standard module of a Japanese tatami, this home for the elderly reconciles current and traditional architecture, reusing whole parts of houses that are abandonded or ready to be demolished...

Aires Mateus   Portugal   Located in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal, some 90 kilometers from Lisbon, this building gives an original answer to the situation of the elderly in Western societies. This is an even greater challenge these days because of the gradual aging of t

Javier de Antón   Spain   El edificio se funde con el terreno como un suelo vivo que se pliega para albergar distintos usos y conseguir luz natural en todos los espacios. Paneles prefabricados con plantas tapizantes pixelan la cubierta evocando los campos de cultivo mientras

Pablo Fernández Lorenzo Pablo Redondo Díez   Spain   Una residencia de personas mayores y un centro de día para un pequeño pueblo de la comarca zamorana de Sayago, cercana a Portugal. Arboledas y campos de cultivo acotados por singulares muros de piedra y salpicados de afloraciones de granito, las ‘peñ

Clotet & Paricio   Spain   Delimitados por las calles Llull y Taulat, y la rambla de Prim, los dos edificios responden a lo complejo de su entorno con una volumetría fragmentada y alturas entre 100 y 16 metros. El conjunto sigue la tradición de ciertas torres barcelonesas que

Paz Martín   The covid-19 pandemic has put homes for elderly people in the limelight. According to a note from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) that was published in April 2020, the mortality of residents in these centers far exceeds that of old peopl

Paz Martín   From adapted homes to collective residences through senior or assisted housing, there are many living models that give a dignified response to the special needs of people in the twilight of life.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We do not need senior housing only: we need cities for all ages. The population aging and hedonistic individualism of post-industrial society have fractured the links that guaranteed the cohesion of traditional structures through mutual help. ‘Parent