The Space Design Of The Elderly Apartment Building In City

With the rapid development of the economic, China has been an erld society. In2011, theolder than60-year-old elderly population has been170million, the problem of supporting oldpeople in China has been a greater burden to the society and the family. The endowment wayconverted gradually from family endowment to social endowment.Now more and moreelderly choose the apartment for the aged, the retirement savings of the elderly in cities havebeen large proportion of gross domestic product. They have some savings and self-careability.They do not want to become the burden of their sons and into the busy lives to takecare of the younger generation, they began to pursue an environment of comfortble. Thereforeseek a habitable apartments for the elderly becoming the architecter，s major issue.The elderly people have a comfortable living environment and psychological meet is alsoone of the basic elements of social stability, In1991, the46United Nations resolution filemade the importance of the elderly dwelling conditions and living conditions clearly, Thatputting forward five contents: The life independence, participation, care, self-sufficiency andpersonal dignity of the elderly.In this article, I analyzed that the old people’s physical condition,the changing ofthinking and the needs of psychological. We can put the old apartment building combinedwith environmental psychology, And analyzing that the built environment impact on the oldperson. I will focus on researching the internal space of the elderly apartment building.Specifically, I will study the diversity and variability of the site selection, overall planning, functionallayout and the interior space of the building that corridor, unit, building border, Living space and so on.As far as possible made buildings meet the demand of old people that different life habits anddiverse needs. Guaranting the habitability space for the elderly apartment building. Made thefeeling of the home to the elderly. Secondly, considering the fear and strangeness of the oldinto the new environment. Made the old into the new environment as soon as possible tostudy autonomous function design and the space layou of elderly apartment. let the elderlyfind familiar feeling and sense of belonging to create multi-level communication space, theliving space of small scale, and creating suitable neighborhood as soon as possible. This article mainly discussed from the Environmental psychology, architecture, cityplanning, the old behavior, has used the multi-disciplinary overlapping research technique.Step by step to seek a new type of the building space design mode to Old apartment humansenile apartment. We must create a comfortable and personalized environment to the old, thestandardized space of the same is no longer.