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Elderly Home

Our architectural aspiration is to make the elderly home one with its community: a continuum, not an end!

Anchored along the terrain’s westside, adjacent to the main access road, and down-sloping east-wards, the building is formed by two ribbons inscribed within the jagged polygonal opposite site boundaries. The building winds itself around the site perimeter of the plot, to maximize outward views granted to the elderly bedrooms, to grant each and everyone of them a “room with a view. They are distributed on two levels: one above the landscape and another partly sunken in it, both privileging unobstructed views to the hilly mountains beyond.

In the center, the two volumes are pivoted on an open-air atrium, spiraling to connect all communal programs (chapel, library, sitting area, dining area, playroom, etc.), visually and physically, to multi-level outdoor gardens (communal roof garden, meditation entrance garden, and fruit-trees terraced garden), interlacing architecture to its surrounding nature, accessibly.

Our architectural aspiration is to make the elderly home one with its community: a continuum, not an end! Anchored along the terrain’s westside, adjacent to the main access road, and down-sloping east-wards, the building is formed by two ribbons inscribed within the jagged polygonal opposite site boundaries. The building winds itself around the site perimeter of the plot, to maximize outward views granted to the elderly bedrooms, to grant each and everyone of them a “room with a view. They are distributed on two levels: one above the landscape and another partly sunken in it, both privileging unobstructed views to the hilly mountains beyond. In the center, the two volumes are pivoted on an open-air atrium, spiraling to connect all communal programs (chapel, library, sitting area, dining area, playroom, etc.), visually and physically, to multi-level outdoor gardens (communal roof garden, meditation entrance garden, and fruit-trees terraced garden), interlacing architecture to its surrounding nature, accessibly.

Elderly Home, Portugal

Our architectural aspiration is to make the elderly home one with its community: a continuum, not an end! Anchored along the terrain’s westside, adjacent to the main access road, and down-sloping east-wards, the building is formed by two ribbons inscribed within the jagged polygonal opposite site boundaries. The building winds itself around the site perimeter of the plot, to maximize outward views granted to the elderly bedrooms, to grant each and everyone of them a “room with a view. They are distributed on two levels: one above the landscape and another partly sunken in it, both privileging unobstructed views to the hilly mountains beyond. In the center, the two volumes are pivoted on an open-air atrium, spiraling to connect all communal programs (chapel, library, sitting area, dining area, playroom, etc.), visually and physically, to multi-level outdoor gardens (communal roof garden, meditation entrance garden, and fruit-trees terraced garden), interlacing architecture to its surrounding nature, accessibly.

Elderly Home