A Garden House model for Senior Living: Nestled into the hillside of an existing senior living community, this 72 bed Memory Care facility was designed with nature as a driving force. Passive strategies such as green roofs, sun shading and bioswales enforce not only the sustainable mission of the project but the community as a whole. Consisting of four 18 person "homes", this building was designed around a household care model with country-style kitchens and dining/living areas that evoke a residential and familiar feel. Accessible patios and garden spaces allow secure access for residents to experience the surrounding landscape that serves as the inspiration for this project.
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#seniorliving #gardenhouse #connectiontonature #nature #well #wellness #memorycare #design #greenroof #bioswale #landscape #inspiration #designforaging #architecture #interiordesign #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

Amenta Emma is partnering with @MakerspaceCT to help manufacture parts for personal protection equipment for our healthcare heroes and first responders. We are asking all architects and design professionals in the Hartford area with 3D printers to join in the effort. Contact us or @MakerspaceCT to receive the file to print headbands for face shields which you can then deliver to @MakerspaceCT for final assembly and distribution.
@MakerspaceCT is also in need of material donations as well as financial donations which will help source supplies and equipment. There are also Work From Home volunteer opportunities available. Click on the link in the @makerspacect bio.
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#PPE4CT #MakerspaceCT #hackthepandemic #helpourhealthcareheroes #helpourfirstresponders #3dprinting #faceshield #headbands #hartford #hartfordct #donationsneeded #volunteer #WFH #amentaemma ...

Amenta Emma team members are participating in the @rallyforrestaurants effort - a grassroots movement which supports the restaurant industry through this time of uncertainty. Remember, you can support your favorite restaurants by purchasing a gift cards to use later. We are featuring on our social media today one of Nicole’s favorite restaurants in Farmington, CT – @forkandfirect. Favorite drink: Fork & Fire Collins. Favorite dish: Pan-Seared Faroe Island Salmon. **Special Curbside take out menu includes Pierogi kits for the family and Build Your Own Burgers!**
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#rallyforrestaurants #forkandfire #supportlocal #restaurantcommunity #pierogi #burgerbar #amentaemma #dineprecisely ...

Using a ‘town’ concept, designers at Amenta Emma recently created a community of engaging workplace spaces for a national insurance company. The space is organized around a main square that brings together the various work neighborhoods and the social programming (eating, meeting, brainstorming). Occupants move through the space along a boulevard that minimizes distraction to office staff while providing access to the social spaces. Finishes were selected to provide a fresh hint of color while the industrial character of the space was celebrated with exposed structure and concrete floors.
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#workplace #community #workneighborhood #concrete #socialspaces #collaboration #programming #workplacedesign #finishes #interiordesign #architecture #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

We continue our celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth by highlighting amazing women who have inspired us in both our professional and personal lives. Today we highlight Denise Scott Brown – born October 3, 1931, she is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the 20th century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching. Scott Brown’s most prolific projects were in urban planning. In 1972, after studying the urban form of the city of Las Vegas with students from Yale, Scott Brown, Venturi and Steven Izenour published “Learning from Las Vegas”, a controversial book critiquing Modern architecture, and calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people. In the late seventies, Venturi and Scott Brown began designing furniture for @knollinc . When Robert Venturi won the Pritzker Prize in 1991, the jury cited numerous projects completed in collaboration with Scott Brown – she did not attend the ceremony in protest. In 1989, she published her famous essay, “Room at the top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture.” The essay describes her struggle to be recognized as an equal partner of the firm, in an architecture world that was predominantly male. She has since been an advocate for Women in Architecture and has spoken out about discrimination within the profession.
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#DeniseScottBrown #urbanplanning #LasVegas #Knoll #modernarchitecture #rolemodel #advocate #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...

Today we honor legendary architect Zaha Hadid in our #WomensHistoryMonth celebration. Born in #Baghdad, Iraq, in 1950, she moved to #London in 1972 to attend one of the most competitive universities of architecture in the world, the Architectural Association School of Architecture. She received the prestigious Diploma Prize at her 1977 graduation, during which the famed Dutch architect #RemKoolhaus, one of Hadid’s professors, described her as “a planet in her own orbit.” Two years after graduating she founded her own firm, @ZahaHadidArchitects. She became famous for her intensely futuristic architecture characterized by curving façades, geometric shapes, sharp angles, and use of severe materials such as concrete and steel. Her ability to manipulate the strongest materials in the world earned her the nickname “Queen of the Curve.” Over the last two decades her work has been honored by a long list of awards: In 2004 she was the first woman to be awarded the #PritzkerPrize; in 2010 and 2011 she received the #StirlingPrize, a British decoration for excellence in architecture; in 2014 her Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award; and in 2016 she became the first woman to win the RIBA Gold Medal. Hadid’s projects, many of which transform depending on the viewer’s perspective, turn architectural convention on its head. The world lost a true visionary in 2016 when the 65-year-old Hadid died unexpectedly from a heart attack. Her firm continues to operate based out of London and has brought many of her unfinished projects to completion.
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#ZahaHadid #Visionary #QueenoftheCurve #heydaraliyevcentre #shedesigns #GenderEquality #celebratewomen #diversity #architect #architecture #femalearchitect #femaledesigners #womenindesign #career #inspiration #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #amentaemma #designprecisely ...