Designing to Keep Staff Safe: The New Normal of the Workplace
Several adjustments, some small and others more complex, can help protect your staff. For instance, the open floor plan that has been become so popular and considered by some as essential to collaboration is also conducive to disease transmission.
Leveraging the Outdoors to Enhance Your Wellness Programming
Why is Wellness an important discussion when designing outdoor spaces in Senior Living?
When thinking about our state of mind and well-being, our connection with nature plays a significant role. Let’s take a moment to break down these dimensions, inclusive of outdoor spaces.
Adapting Interiors to a Baby Boomer Generation
Boomers don’t just want to live – they want to live WELL. The concept of wellness revolves not only around physical vitality but also towards social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, vocational, physical, and environment. Boomers search for wellness opportunities in more casual areas by comparison to what many Senior Living environments offer today.
Senior Living Site Plan Analysis: the BIG picture
With today’s competitive market, it is most important to dig deep into the BIG picture of a site before investing too much time and energy. In this Insights topic, we hope to share some key tips from our experience in senior living architecture to help save you time, money and avoid being blinded by broker appeal.
2019 Senior Housing Trends
2019 brings new ideas, dreams, and aspirations. As designers, we embrace the start of another year as an opportunity to learn and discover changes in the senior housing market.
The surprising emotional effect of color in design
If you think back to the last couple of rooms that you walked through, what do you remember? Stagnant white walls? Or do you recall patterns, changes in lighting, or brightly colored cushions?
Why you need experienced senior living site planner for your project
Experienced site planners with a specialty in senior living give you the advantage of time and cost savings. Pi Architects Landscape Architects are trained in site planning and comprehensive code reviews.
Boost Marketing and Senior Living Design using Virtual Reality
Advances in architectural technology such as Virtual Reality (VR) and other visually immersing experiences are making it possible to experience building designs in bold new ways.
When you hear the word, prototype, what comes first to mind? Do you think ‘standard’, ‘pattern’, maybe even ‘model’. Any one of these synonyms could represent a prototype. In architecture, what really is a prototype design?
Revitalizing Mind, Body, & Spirit at The Medical Resort @ Willowbrook
Pi Architects, and Pi Architects Landscape collaborated with McDonnell Construction and Senior Care Excellence to bring the Medical Resort at Willowbrook to fruition. This 59,000-sq. ft. skilled nursing and rehabilitation community features 104 units...
BCS Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Gets a Facelift
Pi Architects announces the completion of The Arbors Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation redesign for Baptist Community Services in Amarillo, TX. Pi services brings together
Silverado brings the Virtual Dementia Tour ® to Pi Architects
Pi Architects team members experienced walking in the shoes of an elder with dementia this past Monday. Silverado associates provided the Virtual Dementia Tour® to the design team as part of Pi University learning....
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso...
VibraLife of El Paso Texas came to LIFE this summer. This 55,000-square-foot building offers a unique blend of short stay rehabilitation, transitional assisted living, and memory care services.
Grand Opening Celebration for Stonecrest of Troy
Pi Architects is excited to announce the Grand Opening Celebration Thursday August 24th, 2017 of our completed project, Stonecrest of Troy Senior Living. The development team includes Northpoint Development and Integral Senior Living (ISL)....
Pi Interior Design Studio on the RISE!
Pi Architects Interior Design team made the top 10 Commercial Interior Design Firms noted in Austin Business Journal...
Pi Employee: Embracing the Adventure of a Lifetime
Pi employee, Matthew Warrick, takes on the challenge of a lifetime this summer as he hikes thru the entire Appalachian Trail! The Appalachian Trail stretches over 2,200 miles and crosses 14 states from Georgia to Maine, the longest continuous hiking trail in the world.
Choosing a senior living architect: three points to remember
More architecture firms are expanding services to include design for older adults. Here's a quick conversation starter to find out if a senior living designer has the expertise to position your community for success.