Building Investment (September - October 2018)

Architect Tim Mulle employed techniques used by the Disney
folks in their amusement park streetscapes, creating facades
on a three-quarter scale with the illusion of a second floor.
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The fibre optics in the “sky ceiling” to mimic daytime and nighttime.
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The Lantern of Chagrin Valley is designed to look like
a residential street in a 1940s neighbourhood.
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Alzheimer’s disease. It is the third and
and Saybrook, Ohio.
SVAYUS-INSPIRED ARCHITECTURE
The facility’s unique design concept is
therapist. The design is meant, in part, to
decades of life, even as they slowly lose
things from later years.
“It doesn’t make any sense building
a facility that looks like a hotel or an
The controlled environment, according
and “brain exercises”.
who are his clients.”
“The whole idea was making them
feel comfortable in their environment. We
yesterday, with a family neighbourhood
kind of feel,” he added.
AN INDOOR 1940s NEIGHBOURHOOD
neighbourhood” to life, the residents’
rooms lining the corridors are designed
to resemble houses with front porches
overlooking a simulated miniature golf
course woven into the carpet. As with the
style of façade.
Also, the materials and colours allow,
at an almost unconscious level, people to
know that live at the yellow house or the
The interior courtyards feature
storefronts bearing the names Dorothy’s
Supermarket, Helen’s diner, Walter’s
carpeted green to look like grass and
streetscapes complete with street lights.
One of the most noteworthy features
sky, with the sun rising in the morning,
clouds visible during the day and the sun
biological clocks, as well as bring the bring
the outside world indoor.
facility also combined elements like
aromatherapy to help calm residents (as
including aural therapy using music and
environmental sounds like birds chirping
pumping through the speakers throughout
residents’ senses and neural networks,
and eventually rehabilitate them to
the point where they can live more
independently.
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