Project: Ashland Terrace Retirement Community Addition/ Renovation

Location: Lexington, Kentucky

Ashland Terrace is a 150-year-old independent non-profit retirement facility housed in a 40-year-old building in an older, established Lexington neighborhood. In expanding and renovating, management was focused on preserving the “fit” of the building in a residential environment, which required rezoning and the blessing of the neighborhood association; on keeping the open-air back entry terrace (for which the facility is named); on avoiding long halls; and providing many “outside” sitting areas. To insure minimal congestion at mealtimes, two new entrances to the dining room were added, one connecting it to the living room, the other to the main building corridor. The board of directors wanted the feel of the interior to be light, open, airy, modern and walker-friendly (as more than one-third of the existing 32 residents used walkers).