After our presentation and getting feedback from our lecturers, we have encountered a few main problems we had to take into consideration for our solutions and proposed design so that we can further develop them.
Firstly, since the idea of an Elderly Town is still new, our group has decided to scale down its size from the original 8 blocks of apartments to 4 blocks instead but keeping the facilities available the same. We have also decided to target the audience at elderly who are living alone, with their spouse or with family (e.g. single adults living with their parents) which means each apartment can have 1 to 4 people living inside.
We needed to find a proposed space in Singapore that is able to let us build and carry out our Elderly Town. It was suggested that we choose an outskirt part of Singapore that is undeveloped. I've decided to do some research into the urban development plan of Singapore and have found some maps that can be useful in our group's research.
My only concern is that according to the feedback we did for our survey primary research, it was pointed out that the Elderly Town might be not as ideal because it can be seem as a solution to isolate the elderly. By placing the Elderly Town at the outskirts of the country, it does seem like we are isolating the elderly even though the town will have a bus/train interchange to help them travel out of the town. One of my proposed solution to this would be to build an Elderly Town in each region connected to existing bus interchange and MRT stations. This would solve the problem of isolation and at the same time, we can use the North Region as the area for the pioneer Elderly Town.
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- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuJ5tQ4UuPF-20MDiJ5mEQiLLrAY1BNpcnWPEUT_1eLWlx47LWvzPd7DOk-9KxXSlKNPImNlaa2lnGnW9uSi9trxV9Txyc6QiVcAG-9K-DCMPiru0HRMSl0_G6uiGPZPcQYJmxrqgID8f/s1600/ST+Graphics+-Singapore+2030.jpg
- https://www.ura.gov.sg/maps/?service=MP2014_DL
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