Design For My Future Self – Part 2

I recently completed work on a website that was designed specifically to be a promotional tool for the authors of a new book, Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes For Later Life (The Monacelli Press, 2011).  The book documents an amazing collection of single family homes and multi-residence properties that were built and furnished specifically for aging boomers – each defining retirement living in ways that are uniquely meaningful to the owners.

Design for the elderly – or, “design for my future self,” to put it in a way that may seem more relevant to some – is a topic that I have been interested in for many years and have written previously about in this blog.  It’s also a topic that doesn’t seem to get nearly the amount of attention that it deserves.

Click here to check out the site, preview the book – and see a completely fresh take on what “retirement living” can mean (provided that the funds are available).  The project has rekindled my interest in this area of design and introduced me to a new term, “aging in place.”  It’s poetic and simple, but says so much about how I, and I’m sure many others, would like to experience their later life… however far that may be down the road.