ACDF builds Panorama retirement home for "sophisticated seniors" on outskirts of Montreal
Montreal firm ACDF Architecture has designed a 30-storey tower to accommodate elderly housing in Quebec featuring interiors that are more akin to a boutique hotel.
The firm completed the project called Panorama in Laval, a city that is about a 40-minute drive from Montreal, Canada.
It comprises a slender residential tower and a two-storey linear volume on the ground floor that houses a 32-room patient care unit, lobby and numerous amenities.
The complex contains 286 residential units in total, which includes 206 apartments for independent living on the upper levels, and 48 condominiums for assisted living on the lower levels.
Long glazed balconies and dark windows run along the north and south facades of Panorama, while precast concrete panels of varying grey shades clad the east and west facades of the building. "The tower invokes a visual interpretation of a cloudy sky hanging above the landscape," said ACDF.
The openings offer residents views of the surroundings, which encompass the adjacent river Rivière des Prairies and the town of Sainte-Dorothée, and span Montreal's mountain Mount Royal further in the distance.
ACDF chose neutral furnishings and details that resemble boutique hotels and restaurants for the residences. Blue velvet curtains add a hint of colour and were chosen to evoke the river nearby.
Decor includes upholstered chairs, abstract area rugs, marble side tables and metallic chandeliers.
"We wanted to avoid the trap of institutional...
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