ARC 550 Youth Detention Center

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23 A skilled nursing aged-care facility Design was manipulated so not to disrupt site balance the amount of cut and fill for building Not residential nor institutional local materials and colors

Childers Place Texas

Lobby spaces at residential scale living room

United States

Residents and visitors do not feel as if in an institution therefore more community and socialization

Occupied since: 2007

Inner courtyard formed by residential wings Commons area large vaulted ceiling natural light with clerestory Outside accessed both visually and physically onto the courtyard


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