Affordable, Award Winning, and Assisted Living, oh my!

December 3 | 2-3pm ET | Earns 1 LU/HSW

Description

Explore the Design for Aging Review Award 2023 merit winners, showcasing facilities that represent conscientious surroundings and advance environments for senior living. These three affordable assisted living community case studies exemplify how architects and their teams are designing innovation solutions that improve the quality of life for older adults within specific project constraints.

Cooperwood Senior Living,  Duvall Decker

Gramercy Senior Housing, Kevin Daly Architects

Stonewall House, Marvel

Learning Objectives

• Learn how good aesthetic and functional design impact wellbeing in seniors.
• Learn how thoughtful design can improve the lives of seniors in affordable communities.
• Learn how light, ventilation and biophilia improve wellness during the aging continuum.
• Learn how communities can create enhanced lifestyles by working with the existing site even when it is not seen as the prime spot.

Moderator

Alexis Burck, AIA, NCARB

Alexis leads SmithGroup’s award-winning senior living studio. With over 24 years of experience, she possesses a comprehensive understanding of architectural practice, having spent her career building great teams delivering community healthcare, senior living, and affordable housing design. She serves as the AIA Design for Aging Knowledge Community Leadership Group Co-Chair and is a former board member for the Fund for Elders’ Independence, an Oakland-based PACE program serving low-income seniors in the Bay Area. Alexis graduated with high honors from Carleton College with a Bachelor of Arts and went on to get a Master of Architecture from the UC, Berkeley.  

Speakers

Kevin Daly, FAIA

Over his 30-year career, Kevin Daly has defined a design process that upholds the practical magic of architecture – an alchemical conjunction of craft, materials, and form. Bolstered by abundant research, he has demonstrated the benefits of advanced, unconventional building technology in works that are consistently recognized in publications and awards, and range from public schools and custom residences to university buildings, workplaces, and affordable housing. Daly is particularly recognized for reclaiming and transforming sites characteristic of the postwar city, turning generic background buildings into models of community identity. Daly has established a critical practice that is nationally recognized and simultaneously engages the profession as well as the local community. Almost every project has been published nationally or received awards for design excellence. He has served on numerous AIA awards juries, won the first AIA/LA Firm of the Year Award, held distinguished university chairs at Berkeley and Michigan, and is a regular faculty member at UCLA. Through his teaching experience he fosters a next generation of architects across the country.

Danielle Cerone, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Trained in architecture as well as landscape architecture Danielle’s experiences range from large scale urban master plans to transformative interior renovations in New York and abroad. She approaches a scheme of complexity in geometry and scope with a refined work flow and integrated collaboration with clients and consultants. She believes that good design must have respect for a project’s environmental, economic and social contexts. To contribute meaningfully in design is to create spaces that are contextually and sustainably rich, functionally clear and engaging and fun to inhabit. At Marvel Architects she is leading the day to day design of the 26,620sf interior fit out of Brooklyn Public Library and the 125,000sf mix use residential building on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx.

Roy Decker, FAIA

Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall Decker formed Duvall Decker to foster Public Good in and beyond the lot lines of each project. Roy’s dedication to design excellence, education, and craft infuses the firm’s work with meaning. For the past three decades, Roy has led the firm to complete public projects of varying scales and types and to achieve significant design recognition. Roy is a design and critical thought leader, whether he is participating in an inner-city neighborhood meeting, serving on student reviews across the country, sharing his perspective in lectures and publications, or inspiring an individual in conversation. In all of these encounters, he exhibits an unwavering commitment to considering the consequences of architectural design work in the lives of others.

Roy holds a Master of Architecture degree from Kent State University. He has been on the faculty of Temple University School of Architecture and Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture. He was selected by the Architectural League of New York to present at the 2017 Emerging Voices lecture series. In 2023 and 2024, his firm was named Best Medium Firm in the Southeast by Architect’s Newspaper, and his firm’s work was recently published in The State of Housing Design by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.