Design for the Elderly….Demographics

As the age of the baby-boomers is getting up there, the need for geriatric consideration increases.  I propose a re-starter home.  This is a 2 bed/2 bath home for those who are retired.  This would be a community, a supportive network, of people and places accessible by walking or bycycling.

Inspiration

Steven Holl’s Turbulence House

Flooring Materials

Plyboo flooring is an alternative to solid wood.  Plyboo is laminated bamboo flooring. 

Radiant Heated Flooring

Warmboard is a highly efficient way to heat flooring.  It uses a supply water temperature of 105° to keep the floors continously heated to 70° ambient room temperature.  This works great with geothermal heating and is great for my application in the desert because the floors can be heated at night and will cool off rather quickly in the morning as the day gets warmer…My quote from Marc Maevis at Warmboard is $6.59 a foot.  This includes the whole system..(tubing, warmboard, structural sub floor).  Most flooring applications can be directly adhered to Warmboard, if using tile you should use 1/4″ hardy backer below the tile.

warmboard-brochure