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The design of a social housing complex that is accessible to all population groups including disabled people, elderly people and families with children can be achieved only with application of architectural and gerontological principles. The gerontological direction in designing is connected with a comprehensive account of the dynamic changes in a person's life, his physiological and social characteristics, changing during the life of the population's needs for the organization of living space. The paper confirms ...

The dynamic architecture is not only the architecture of the movement as such, associated only with a spatial object changes, but also the architecture with qualitative changes occurring in time. Thus the concept of dynamic architecture does not exclude principles of permanence and stability. With the development of computer technology it became possible to create the complex structures that contain information about variable spatial configurations determined by different conditions. In the end, the architectural ...

The work deals with promising trends in the formation of medically social institutions depending on the accounting of factors in architectural design. The methodology for determining the functional planning structure of the type of buildings studied is based on the aggregate accounting of 4 factor groups, three are basic: natural-objective, subjective-technical, subjective-cultural and the fourth is the complex group. All round use of the foundations for socially specialized institutions will allow a systematic de...

The concept of Architectural Gerontology that is presented here is based on the past 50 years of architectural research. Initially, it was part of the social gerontology that later developed in to a separate discipline. Within the boundaries of architectural gerontology there are many research areas some of which are: 1) social demographics, accounting the needs of citizens with limited mobility; 2) the urban planning, optimizing the reduced mobility livelihood in the structure of urban residential areas; 3) the t...