Arcadia: A Vertical Continues Care Retirement Community Prototype in Dense Urban Setting

ARCADIA -

A CONTINUOUS CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ARCH 808 - SPRING 2021

DANI KOLKER & CAROLINE COLEMAN

Patterns of Concentration When we look at cities around the world we immediately recognize that, though no two cities are exactly alike, they do share similar patterns. Issues like concentrated poverty and low educational attainment, for example, have a tendency to overlap. Vacancy, racial tension, crime, lack of ownership, poor healthcare –all of these issues , likewise, have a tendency to overlap and are repeated in one concentration or another across every city we have ever built.

So we begin this first section by looking at cities across the United States. We limited our initial research to one country to ensure a consistent data set, the US Census. Some examples, like Detroit, were chosen because they’ve become a “poster child” for a specific issue. Other cities were chosen as a typical example of an ongoing struggle we have found in all US cities.

DESIGN THESIS & GOALS The current growth of the population aged 65 and older, which is driven by the baby boom generation, is unlike anything in U.S. history. By the year 2030, nearly 2.3 million people will need senior care - a 75% increase from the amount of people living in senior living environments today.

The current senior living models were designed for the necessities of the Silent Generation and have far less choice, amenities, and comfort than what this generation expects. Traditionally, senior care facilities have been designed to provide medical care to frail and impaired individuals with not a lot of attention given to quality of life. Because of this, geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas identified what he called the three plagues of senior care facilities: boredom, loneliness and helplessness.

ARCADIA

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Through our initial research, it is evident that the senior population in Hyde Park, Illinois is at a high risk of experiencing these three plagues if we do not target these challenges through design. Our goal is to design a safe and resilient continuous care retirement community that eliminates the three plagues of longterm care facilities in a way that replaces boredom with spontaneity, loneliness with community and helplessness with capability to promote a healthy mind, healthy body and healthy community.

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Our site is located in a unique location in Hyde Park, Illinois. This site has several key adjacencies like the Chicago Business District, University of Chicago, Jackson Park and the Lake Michigan shore line.

Some of the key design drivers that come from the site include: the connection to nature - the site is surrounded by parks and water so we wanted our building to reflect that and become very organic in form; the connection to the surrounding

neighborhoods - key connections include the University of Chicago Medical Campus which is directly west of the site and Downtown Chicago which is directly north; Community - we wanted the building to be a destination for the entire community, not just the aging population; lastly, breaking the grid - because of the unique location at the corner of the city grid, we wanted to emphasize the connection between city and nature. We wanted to create a few

main entry points based on users coming in to the building. The southern side would be the primary entry for public users and the east side would be the private entrance for building residents. Staff and Supply have a separate entrances on the west and north sides. Green spaces on the site help to give relief from the hard-scape and emphasis our desire to focus on organic forms that would influence wayfinding and pathways throughout.

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The program of our building is made up of nine general space categories: Retail, Central Administration, Community Amenities, Service + Support, Memory Care Unit, Long-term Care Unit, Assisted Living Unit, Health + Wellness Center and Intergenerational Residential Units.

When thinking about how we wanted to stack our building vertically, we decided that the retail, central administration and some of the community amenities should

PUBLIC ENTRANCE

URBAN FORM Extrude form vertically to match the surrounding urban building heights

go on the bottom levels followed by the senior care units. We chose this location for safety and accessibility reasons. We wanted to separate the intergenerational units (which would be the top floors of the building) from the senior care so we decided to put the H+W center and more amenities in the middle as both the connection and separator between the two. The form of the building comes from the goals of matching the surrounding

urban building heights, creating a public entrance and a private resident entrance, maximizing the green space on the site, creating an organic form and shifting the levels in unique ways that lead to more greenspace and a more organic form. One of the biggest drivers for this form was our plan to group common programs together within the form. This helped to create a lot of access to outdoors with a focus on views to the east (lake) and south (park).

RESIDENT ENTRANCE

ACCESSIBILITY Create a public visitor entrance and a private resident entrance

GREEN SPACE Cut off the three main corners of the site to maximize green space and give nature back to the neighborhood

ORGANIC FORM Round all of the building corners to create an organic form that connects the site to the surrounding nature

PUSH & PULL Push and pull different levels to create more green space and a more organic form

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Inter-generational Residential Units

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Health + Wellness Center Community Amenities

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Level 1 and Level 2 include the main retail and public spaces such as a grocery store, library, and intergenerational day care.

There are separate spaces on the ground floor for staff to access service without direct contact to the public. Through the main circulation core, the public and resident lobbies are connected to access these amenities without having to exit the building. From initial entrance, it was our hope that the lobbies would begin to promote community engagement amongst residents through multiple shared spaces.

They were left open on the second level in order to create double height spaces and a small mezzanine. Level 2 also includes the central administration and primary kitchen that serves the senior care floors.

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Level 3 is our Memory Care Unit. It is one floor made up of 3 neighborhoods, each having 8 patient beds. From the core of the building, staff can directly enter their staff zone, and patients and visitors enter through the reception area. Each unit is laid out in a similar way with 8 patient beds, a corner Den with great views, a shared central space for the living room, dining room and care team station, and areas for staff and service space. This floor also has access to two outdoor areas with walking paths and outdoor seating.

Level 4 is our Long-term Care Unit and has the exact same layout as Level 3, without the outdoor space. Each patient room is 250 square feet and has an accessible restroom and floor to ceiling windows for views of the city.

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Level 5 is the Assisted Living Unit. This floor has 21 patient rooms ranging from one bedroom one bathroom units to two bedroom two bathroom units. The unit has two wings with a shared community dining room. Each wing has a small kitchenette, activity room, library room, living room and hidden care team stations. This allows residents to feel as though they are living independently, but the care team can still be of assistance if needed. The multiple dens on this floor allow residents to gather together and provide great views of the city and lake. Each patient room is ADA accessible and has a full kitchen, living room, bedroom and bathroom.

Above: Resident Room

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Level 6 is the main dining floor that includes both formal and informal dining, both with connections to outdoor space.

This level helps to begin breaking up the space between the senior care and intergenerational floors but also serves as a social connection between both.

Level 7 is where the health and wellness center is located. From the core residents have access to many different health amenities such as meeting with a clinician in the health clinic, learning about healthy living in the café and classroom space, swimming in the lap pool, or working out in the 24 hour fitness studio. There are two outdoor spaces that are accessed through the fitness center and heath cafe.

Above: Fitness Center

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Level 8 through Level 18 are the intergenerational residential units. As the first floor of the residential tower, level 8 is home to some of the community amenities like game room, coffee bar, a community kitchenette and outdoor games. Level 8 is also the start of our two atriums. Each side of the building has an outdoor courtyard. These courtyards are full of different forms of nature and offer residents an opportunity to get some

fresh air. The atriums provide peace and contentment by allowing natural light to come in to the interior of the residential units.

balconies, one over each courtyard. The balcony locations vary from floor to floor, providing different views of the courtyard and connecting all of the floors.

Every residential floor is laid out the exact same way with five different unit types ranging from one bedroom one bathroom units, two bedroom one bathroom units and two bedroom two bathroom units.

From Level 9 and up, each floor has two

The units range in size from 660 SF to 1,080 SF. Each residential unit is ADA accessible and has a full kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom and plenty of storage (including space for a washer and dryer).

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These sections help to further show the strategic stacking of the programs within our building. The central core provides both residents and visitors with easy access to every floor of the building. The retail and community amenities located on Level 1 and Level 2 are easily accessible to both residents of the building and the surrounding community. The amenities in the middle of the building are more oriented for the residents. Located in between the senior care floors and the intergenerational residential units, these spaces both connect and separate the programs.

Cutting the building east/west, the first section further shows the two atriums in the residential tower that help to bring light into the center. The varying balcony locations that begin on level 9 can also be seen through this section.

Cutting the building north/south, the second section further shows the varying exterior balcony locations. The strategic placement of these helps to orient views to the nearby park and Lake Michigan.

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When designing our facade, we wanted to continue with our goal to individualize our building from those in the surrounding area with a unique style that compliments the complex and organic form. In order to draw attention to the curves of our building, we wanted to emphasize the horizontal axis. We did this by using materials to distinguish all of the floor plates and the balconies where all of the outdoor spaces

EAST ELEVATION

are located. By selecting a dark colored are only located on the senior care floors aluminum, one can easily see all of the and the intergenerational residential units shifting floor plates and balconies. to show the contrast between the public To contrast this material selection and and private program spaces. provide relief from the sun, a wood panel system was created across the curtain wall facade. The vertical panels are situated perpendicular to the curtain wall in order to block the sun and while still providing views to outside. These panels

SOUTH ELEVATION

In order to highlight the two main entrances to the building, we placed a series of wood panels close together to allow signage to be placed on top. This creates a very warm and inviting entrance.

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