Intelligent Domestic Ecosystems: innovative housing models for fragile elderly

Antonio Magarò; Adolfo Baratta; Fabrizio Finucci

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/11498

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Antonio Magarò Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Italy

Architect, PhD, Research Fellow at the University of Florence. He carries out supplementary teaching activities at the Roma Tre University. He has been visiting researcher at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschulein Aachen (DE), at the Hockschule Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung in Konstanz(DE) and at the Universidad de Boyacà(COL). It deals with the development of marginal urban areas and urban regeneration in areas of the world afflicted by housing deprivation. He is author of numerous publications on technology transfer from ICT to architecture for improving the quality of special housing for fragile users, as well as on innovative materials.
Adolfo Baratta Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, Italy

Architect (1997), PhD in Architecture Technology (2002), since 2014 he is Associate Professor at Roma Tre University. He has been adjunct Professor at University of Florence (2002-2009), at Sapienza University of Rome (2009-2010), Assistant professor at the University of Florence (2005-2011), Visiting Professor at Universidad de Boyacàin Sogamoso (COL) (2017) and at Hochschule Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltungin Konstanz (DE) (2017). His research activity is carried out in a privileged way in three interrelated areas: production and construction, quality and environment, procedure and technological design. He is author of over 200 publications.
Fabrizio Finucci Department of Architecture, Roma Tre University, Italy

Architect, PhD and contract Professor Sapienza-University of Rome, since 2012 he is Researcher and Adjunct professor in Appraisal and economic evaluation at Roma Tre University. He was visiting professor in 2017 at the Universidad de Boyacá(Colombia), Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, and in 2019 at the University of Pècs, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. In 2018 he obtained the national scientific qualification (ASN) as Associate professor. His main research activity deals with the economic evaluation for plan, project, and program, implemented with inclusive and dialogic approaches. He is author of over 70 publications.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/11498

Keywords:

Intelligent Domestic Ecosystems, Fragile users, Housing for Elderly, Active and Assisted Living, Safe and Inclusive Housing

Abstract

Fragile users represent a category in which the elderly population is included (fragile elderly). In 2017, there were 962 million people over 60, half the number expected by 2050, and many of them have disabilities. During the recent health emergency, frailty was discriminating for access to therapies creating the risk, not yet evaluated, that the mortality rate of fragile users could be increased.

This is because, even when not infected, the fragile elderly people were denied access to the hospital spaces they needed. The contribution would describe the state of the art and the first results of the research conducted at the Roma Tre University which aims to study innovative housing models for fragile elderly people capable of promoting de-hospitalization avoiding the submentioned risk and improving the quality of life through the technological transfer of the Internet of Things from the ICT sector to the architecture one. First of all, it will define both the final user of the research, i.e. the fragile elderly through its historical genesis, and the tools of the research, i.e. the intelligent domestic ecosystems as new integrated and interconnected housing models. Secondly, it will be described the research core aimed to design a prototype, realized with the use of open source and low-cost technologies.

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