Research on Possible Method to Converge IT and Architectural Design Techniques for Efficient Design of Elderly Housing

Since aging population in Korea is rapidly progressing, the need for improving the life quality of the elderly has been increasing. Accordingly, in order to respond in a residential environment improvement and behavior change for the elderly, architecture design and construction methods have become converted into a modular construction method and various IT systems for the elderly have been proposed. Unlike current residential design techniques for the elderly in which architectural design techniques are performed separately with IT system design, the methodology for converging architectural design techniques with IT has not been discussed and proposed. Therefore, this paper extensively studies about requirements for converging architectural design techniques with IT such as elderly behavior, residential IT Service plan factor analysis, and residential modular construction method including IT services. ☞ keyword : Elderly People, IT Service, Construction method, BIM