Belčič / The Right to Choose

The Right to Choose Democratising Older People's Housing Design trhough Mass Customisation

Authors: Ana Belčič, PhD student, University of Ljubljana; Sara Eloy, assistant professor / director of and fellow researcher, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)

Supervisors: Anja Planišček, assistant professor, University of Ljubljana; Jana Mali, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Ljubljana

Research stage: intermediate doctoral stage

Category: Paper

Bio

Ana Belčič is a second year PhD student at the Faculty of architecture, University of Ljubljana. She received a master in architecture at the same institution in 2017 on the topic of adaptive reuse in industrial heritage buildings. Her doctoral disposition is focused on alternative housing opportunities for older people in a long living society, with a special interest in community-based ageing and architecture as a tool of enhancing social inclusion.

Sara Eloy is an Assistant Professor at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Her main research interest is shape grammars and the possibilities of using them in real design scenarios. Other areas of research are CAAD, immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality, and space perception. She graduated in Architecture (FAUTL 1998) and has a PhD in Architecture (IST UL 2012) where she investigated on a transformation grammar-based methodology for housing rehabilitation. She is the Director of the Information Sciences and Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR). She was the editor of “AI EDAM special issue: advances in implemented shape grammars: solutions and applications”.