Ageless Solidarity: Intergenerational Center 3-5/ 65+
Feyzullah Fatih Helvac?. Istanbul, Turkey
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Name of work in English
Ageless Solidarity: Intergenerational Center 3-5/ 65+
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Name of work in original language
Intergenerational Center
Prize year
Young Talent 2018
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Work Location
Istanbul, Turkey
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Author/s
Feyzullah Fatih Helvac?
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School
Faculty of Architecture - Gebze Technical University.
Kocaeli, Turkey
Young Talent 2018 YT Nominees
Ageless Solidarity: Intergenerational Center 3-5/ 65+
Intergenerational Center
Program
Mixed use - Cultural & Social
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Labels
Aggregation · Elderly · Children & Youth · Collective housing · Kindergarten
The project 'Improving the living conditions of the elderly', 'Spatialization of the old-child unity' and 'mutual communication and learning'.
Bringing together to 3-5 years old children with at the age of 65 and over people is the project's main topic. Different workshops and activities enable for this meetings. From personal experiences, a traditional passage design has been proposed which is shaped around a street. As a result of the investigations,open and unlimited imagination workshops has positive effects in terms of socialization, self-expression and gaining different skills to 3-5 year-old group's development.\nAlthough these two different age groups seem different, they basically have strong common points similar to each other. The major common points are being curious and freedom-lovers. This context enables information transfer between the two generations. While the people are getting older, their responsibilities diminish and their roles in the life become inactive. By contributing to the socialization to the age of 65 and over people with this meeting center, a responsibility and a purpose are given to the elderly generations and a certain ability and responsibility is given to the group of 3-5 years old.