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Salem Rehabilitation Courtyards

Advinacare Elderly Care Facility

 

Date: 2020

Location: Salem, MA

Project Team: Watson Salembier + Micky Klein Assoc + Jaca Architects

Client: Rockpoint Development Group

Watson Salembier designed the rehabilitation courtyard for the Advinacare Elderly Care Facility at Salem, using a rewilding approach by introducing native vegetation, amplifying existing site conditions, and incorporating a sustainable and safe material palette for the residents.

Inspired by the dramatic rock wall which flanks the entire eastern boundary of the courtyard, a cascade and pool were introduced to create a strikingly different experience from day to night and season to season. A covered entrance walkway from the car park transitions to a series of open decks for short ventures into the garden from the main entrance. Continuing through the courtyard a series of rooms are created, with a circular canopy courtyard facing the pool and cascade, an activity walk that introduces a small incline, seating spaces around an outdoor fire pit to extend the use of the garden into the cooler months and mailboxes to practice daily activities, a bridge over the pool, a putting green amongst the long grasses, and a car to assist with rehabilitation activities. Set within a co-ordinated and contemporary feeling design, the space becomes the central feature of the facility upgrade. 

The studio acknowledges that we are sited on the traditional lands of the first people of Brooklyn, New York—the Lenape people past and present—and honor them and the land with gratitude.

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