Abstract

The rest house conceived in Maserà Padua by the TUNED team was designed to host 120 elderly residents. The open areas and gardens around it, with the greenery designed on the roofs, are thought to elicit particular implicit responses, even for the patients with Alzheimer's. The design splits indoor areas into three floors, with a large ground floor devoted to the primary services, with the upper ones dedicated to the private rooms and other common areas. 

The main target was to attune the multisensorial space perception (patients and staff) with the awaited emotions of the units' users. We have experimented with a new method based on the translation of bodily gestures' physiologies in some dynamics of spaces' composition.

We know bodily gestures embed different emotions: we can trigger those emotions inherent in people, balancing the homeostatic values more appropriately. Also, implicit memory can be adequately used to enhance the navigation of people with different mental diseases.