Best living concepts for elderly homeowners

Combining a stated choice experiment with architectural design

Journal article (2019)

Authors

Ioulia Ossokina Eindhoven University of Technology
Theo Arentze Eindhoven University of Technology
D. van den Heuvel Public Building and Housing Design
Dick van Gameren Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Public Building and Housing Design
Copyright: © 2019 Ioulia V. Ossokina, Theo A. Arentze, D. van den Heuvel, D.E. van Gameren
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-019-09716-5
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Published Date

2019

Language

English

Research Group

Public Building and Housing Design

Abstract

In this paper we combine the insights from social sciences and architecture to design best living concepts for a specific target group, elderly homeowners. We perform a stated choice experiment to study residential preferences of this group and translate the results into an architectural design of senior-friendly housing. This methodological approach is novel to the literature. We derive the willingness-to-pay for different residential attributes and show how these attributes can be traded off against each other to create best living concepts. We discuss how these living concepts can be translated into customized architectural design
while making use of standard architectural elements.