The number of elderly is growing rapidly. Different societal problems that already exist will continue to grow if nothing changes in policy, like a shortage of care staff, a shortage in housing, loneliness among elderly and other problems. Facilitating intergenerational reciprocity can contribute by adressing these problems and offering a healthy future of the elderly with enough care capacity. The main question 'How can architecture support reciprocity in intergenerational relationships that include elderly?' is answered from several perspectives and translated into architectural interventions. Three different perspectives are taken into consideration, directly and indirectly leading to reciprocity: Co-care, co-dividuality and comunity. For reciprocity within professional care context (Co-care), the workload needs to be reduced to create more room for reciprocity to happen. Several architectural interventions can be done that directly or indirectly impact the workload within professional care For reciprocal releationships to happen within the personal context (Co-dividuality), elderly need to have a sense of equal value. This can be facilitated by different architectural means, some of them being applicable for all elderly. Other architectural interventions leave room for the uniqueness of each elderly. Some co-dividual aspects also impact healthy living and have a indirect impact on reciprocity. Co-munity functions as the catalyst of the other two perspectives. For reciprocity to happen within community, there needs to be social involvement. Social involvement is distinguished on three differentlevels: Bonding, bridging, and linking. All levels need different kinds of architectural interventions to facilitate reciprocity. Taking all the researched perspectives into consideration, a positive feedback loop can be seen, resulting in less need for care and improving health. All topics discussed in this research are interconnected connected and when facilitated, they offer 'growth' of every other aspect.

Research about church architecture in the past few centuries mainly focussed on reuse. In the past few years, the focus of a lot of church communities has shifted towards reconnecting with society. Architectural research about this topic in church context is still lacking. This is an opportunity for more research, since the physical built environment can highly influence the way of reconnecting is done. In this thesis, several topics are researched, including a reflection in chapter one on what the original biblical architecture of the christian story means for church architecture today. Chapter two shows how architecture and underlying values and intentions are interconnected. It also offers a historical framework to compare modern day design perspectives with the past and it shows how the focus in the current church has shifted more towards connecting with society. The last chapter examines several architectural church projects that try to reconnect with society in several ways. Architectural themes that influence this are evaluated, including a gradation in private and public, inviting outside space, flexibility, creating beauty, connecting 'normal' life aspects with 'religious' aspects, informality, creating room for silence and reflection, building highly sustainable and allow for both small and large scale gatherings. This research is not a comprehensive overview, but can be used as a starting point for more interaction and conversation between theologians, church communities and architects.