Each apartment is modest yet adaptable, featuring accessible layouts, en suite restrooms, and carefully designed thresholds that soften transitions between private living and shared spaces. Passive design strategies enhance comfort and resilience: limestone walls provide thermal mass, cross-ventilation brings natural airflow, and native landscaping shades, cools, and grounds the project in its local ecology.
A material palette of limestone masonry, timber framing, and clay tile roofing ties the architecture to regional traditions while projecting warmth, durability, and dignity. Together, these elements create more than housing—they propose a textured, enduring environment for aging in place, where residents can live fully, independently, and in community.
Client: Competition Entry
Program: Retirement Housing
Area: 1207 m² / 13000 sf
Status: Shortlisted Entry
Services: Architecture, Interior Design
Collaborators: Taylor Halamka, Melissa Naranjo Barrientos