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Abstract
This paper aims to build a series of design principles applicable to space for elderly users of wheelchair, which takes evacuation as the core, so as to improve the space of aging-friendly care centers, to explore the value of universality, safety and receptivity of the space and to introduce the design operation technique by referring to the perceived value. The space designs of most of aging-friendly care centers take Barrier Free Environment as one of the prior considerations; however, the barrier free environment possesses quite a wide range of users and is defined differently by different care centers. Therefore, if taken the barrier free environment as the master plan, lots of conflicts and errors will be generated in the actual operations; moreover, the users will also have a bad receptivity. The author thus hopes that the research results can efficiently promote the users’ escape capability, specific to the space designs for aging-friendly care centers in Taiwan.
The issue discussed in this research is how to develop the design principles for the emergency evacuation of elderly users of wheelchair in aging-friendly care centers as the core. The research starts from three topics, namely, universality—space universality, safety—emergency evacuation and receptivity—barrier free environment. Three operating methods based on the perceived-value model are adopted, i.e. operation—operation and application of space, perception—offering the users receptivity and value—values and importance embodied, to operate and analyze the research.
In accordance with the two stages: research and design, there are six research methods. Two research methods are used for the first stage, respectively i.e. literature review and in-depth interview, and four design methods are for the second stage, including construction of value model, principle designs, operation design and evaluation. This paper follows seven steps: the first is to build up the question types design and in-depth interview; the second is to analyze and judge the interview files; the third is to construct the table of perceived-value model; the forth is to establish the operation methods of design; the fifth is to propose the design strategies; the sixth is to analyze the inconvenience of environment and the seventh is to develop the design principles.
The perceived-value model for aging-friendly care centers obtained in this paper can be applied in the aspects of users’ operation, perception and value, to consider the design technique and strategy, so as to satisfy the users’ demands and to make the space in aging-friendly care center safer for the users. The findings in this research have been obtained as follows:
A. Construction of perceive-value model
B. Proposing of design strategy
C. Establishment of design principles
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