Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 1PM EDT

Presented by: Jack L. Bowersox. Kaye Brown, Ph.D., and Skip Gregory, NCARB

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The inaugural AIAS/SAGE Student Design Competition "Rethinking Home" challenges students in design schools throughout North America to re-conceptualize the nursing home typology by using design precedents found within a typical home to create a new sense of place. The competition encouraged architects-in-training to explore ways to implement the Rethinking Home: Programming Guidelines, written for the competition, to the real but fictionally-named case study, Pelican Point, a skilled nursing home located in Florida. Students were encouraged and rewarded for design excellence that integrates function, aesthetics, structure, details and fun and for utilizing opportunities provided by the site to offer a healing environment. The winning entries from the competition will be reviewed for the audience along with the jury's comments.

Learning Objectives:

Discover the winning designs for renovating/redesigning an existing 60-bed skilled nursing facility in Florida from the inaugural AIAS/SAGE Student Design Competition open to all architecture students in North America. Obtain a useful set of guidelines for re-conceptualizing long-term care environments that particularly apply to redeveloping existing homes. Review the jury's comments on the AIAS/SAGE design competition submissions and hear from the winners what they saw as the main challenges for rethinking the spaces we design for long-term care. Network with the growing community of designers, educators, providers and regulators of long-term care who are dedicated to helping students enter our field.