BEST PRACTICES.Beyond naming this year's official Order of Excellence award winners, our jury handpicked eight projects for exemplary features. Our showcase which we call best practices credits project design teams for promoting innovative solutions in specific areas. Winners all! 1 and 2. Preserving the past; Creatively adapting existing space Project: Grand Traverse Pavilions, Traverse City Traverse City, city (1990 pop. 15,155), seat of Grand Traverse co., N Mich., at the head of the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay, in a resort and cherry-growing region; inc. 1881. , Mich. Architecture: Edmund London & Associates While preserving prized historic buildings is always noteworthy, innovation comes from making them function at modern standards. By reworking interior spaces to cluster small numbers of rooms around enlarged hallways (think sitting room), the architects creatively adapted a stand-out setting to today's market and care needs. 3. Battling sundowning Project: Air Force Village Alzheimer's Care and Research Center Freedom House, San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation). San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S. Architecture: Nelson-Tremain Partnership Can sundowning, the condition of increasing agitation in people with Alzheimer's as the day progresses, be affected positively or eliminated altogether by introducing more light? At Freedom House, Nelson-Tremain installed recessed timer-operated cove lighting Cove lighting is a form of indirect lighting built into ledges, recesses, or valences in a ceiling or high on the walls of a room. It may be used as primary lighting, or for aesthetic accent. to maintain constant, high-level luminescence luminescence, general term applied to all forms of cool light, i.e., light emitted by sources other than a hot, incandescent body, such as a black body radiator. throughout the day. Though the design hypothesis will be tested in clinical observation, it's certainly worth a try. 4. Perfecting the porch Project: Bishop Gadsen Episcopal Retirement Community, Charleston, S.C. Architecture: Cochran, Stephenson & Donkervoet Inc., Baltimore Interior Design: BMK BMK Benzyl Methyl Keton BMK Bookmarked File BMK Benchmark Associates Porches in Charleston, S.C., have a charm all their own, and new front porches at this CCRC Noun 1. CCRC - an agency in the Department of Defense that is a national center for research on all aspects of injury control and casualty care Casualty Care Research Center further such great architectural tradition. Here, alongside the house rather than across its street-facing facade, the porch offers a doorway to the street with the main residence entrance reserved for the porch itself. To emphasize the Bishop Gadsen porches, Cochran, Stephenson & Donkervoet created a site plan that maximizes both their utility and their views. 5. Decentralizing de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. dining Project: The Jewish Home and Hospital, Bronx Division, The Bronx, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Architecture and interior design: Perkins Eastman Architects PC (New York and Pittsburgh) In an imaginative solution to problem typical of urban, high-rise nursing homes (where it's nearly impossible to move every resident into central dining), Perkins Eastman devised a plan that places communal dining rooms on every floor. The former main dining area--reinvented as a galleria of sorts--now serves up activities and options that bring residents and families together. 6. Crafting contemporary appeal Project: The Malta Square at Sacred Heart The Sacred Heart is a religious devotion to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of the divine love for humanity This devotion is predominantly used in the Roman Catholic Church and also used in the Anglican Church. , New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded Though this project represents adaptive reuse of two interesting buildings, more importantly, it's infused with contemporary architectural character. Blitch Knevel fashioned an appealing streetscape street·scape n. 1. An artistic representation of a street. 2. Surroundings composed of streets: the urban streetscape. thanks to gorgeous yellow brick cladding and handsome doorways. Large windows look great outside and make for a light, bright interior space. What's more, it's all on a remarkable $48 per square foot for construction. Architecture and interior design: Blitch Knevel Architects 7. Unloading the corridors The standard, 8-foot-wide, double-loaded corridor-- often unremarkable and Disorienting--leaves residents with no place to congregate near their rooms and no desire to trudge all the way down to a central hub. Our jury calls them "extremely noxious to quality of everyday life." So judges jumped at the chance to recognize a new plan at Fairport, which called for removal of rows of several rooms in every hallway to provide informal gathering places in their stead. Project: Fairport Baptist Homes, Fairport, N.Y. Architecture: DeWolff Partnership Architects LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol 8. Connecting with nature Project: Covenant Oaks at Oakwood Village, Madison, Wisc. Architecture and interior design: OWP&P Architects Inc., Chicago Imagine three distinct garden areas for just 40 units--a heroic effort to link residents to nature. That's reality at Covenant Oaks Alzheimer's facility, a new addition to an existing community. While all new units share a central garden, 20 of those units flank a second garden. A third landscaped area offers play space for children and offers a lovely transition between new and existing buildings. |
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