SAN FRANCISCO: The current trend to build mega retirement communities is at cross purposes with the need for human intimacy.
The biggest villages are struggling with the creation of public space design that supports ‘idling time’ for thinking, contemplation, reflection, debate and discourse.
The built environment is still overloaded with concrete and steel. The living environments are sterile and hostile. Little time, effort or money is spent on sub-space creation, wall gardens, intimate spaces, nooks and crannies…
