As South Korea is expected to become a super-aged society by 2025, diligent efforts have been made to reduce the social burden by promoting a productive and healthy elderly lifestyle. Individuals are encouraged to prepare throughout their early lives and construct a healthy residential environment. As one of several alternatives home healthcare is using the Internet of Thingsreferred as ambient assisted living (AAL)is drawing much attention. Although the individual technologies of healthcare and smart home have undergone rapid development, there has been little integration between the two. Moreover, many technological developments do not consider the actual lives of the elderly. To effectively respond to the aging problem, the two technologies should be integrated and applied to residential environments based on daily routines of the elderly. The purpose of this study is to suggest the future direction for healthcare in smart homes in South Korea. To achieve this goal, we first examined the possibility of embedding healthcare services into smart homes in a noninvasive manner. Second, in-depth interviews were conducted with elderly citizens and silver town operators to elucidate characteristics of the elderly, and a healthcare scenario was suggested that could be applied to each smart home room.
This study is an architectural design thesis aimed at designing a building at the River Thames in London, which could float along the river and be anchored in the river, in terms of the concept of the sense of place. The process of the study was as follows. First, theoretical backgrounds of the concepts of sense of place, placelessness, and non-place were examined and the sense of place of River Thames was analyzed. Second, the architectural planning elements could be applied to architectural design in terms of the relationship between the place and architecture, form of architecture, and behaviors of peoples. Third, the architectural design concepts and programs were specified based on the planning elements and a cultural complex that floats on the River Thames in London, England was proposed. The focus of this study was the process of formation of a sense of place by the cognition of architecture and people's activity, and this study claimed that the sense of place could be materialized by the metaphorically inherent property of the architecture.
The purpose of this study is to examine the planning elements of the urban redevelopment, which could improve the city by preserving the historical, social and cultural values inherent in specific places in the city. The subject of this study is Okin-dong, Jongno-gu, where
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