SUSTAINABLE ANTIQUES

Abstract

According the complexity of Morin’s thought (†2.011), the assertion that we should “respect in the other person, simultaneously, the difference and identity as yourself” we will draw a parallel about the complexity of aging, considering the heterogeneity of this population segment and the specificities requested for the built environment.

Throughout this article, we will try to locate the reader as to the “tsunami” of white hair that changes the global demographic landscape and obliges us to focus attention on legal and public policies built on historical references and social concepts of aging that very often reinforce weaknesses and deficiencies, when the correct would be raise up the flag for life until each one can bear.

One of the tasks is to recognize the human dimension inside diversity as universal starting point for social inclusion. Finding some tools, as a set of knowledge about what to become old is, as the Environmental Gerontology and housing projects for seniors in São Paulo State, which make us to understand new projective possibilities that contribute to the quality of life and sustainability of our buildings, starting with the concrete definition of concepts as accessible, adapted and adaptable.