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ulation will be 65 or older. With this, the same baby boomers who have long exercised their influence on cultural trends, ranging from music to travel to investments, have begun to influence what the experience of retirement and aging can and should be. With ten thousand people turning 65 every day, addressing this ever-increasing demographic will be a driving force in the design industry for years to come. Creating opportunities for people to age with dignity is not just a privilege, but a responsibility, and helping all people to live with dignity—at all life stages—is a responsibility design professionals are uniquely qualified to address. In the article “Boomer Inspiration” (p. 34), ASID ICON delves into this powerful generation and the influence it is having on the ability of seniors to thrive in dedicated living facilities. Whether planning for their parents or with thoughts of their own future, boomers are looking for layouts and spaces that promote socialization, not isolation; lighting that considers the circadian rhythms

of residents with varying health issues; color combinations that take into account changes in vision; and options beyond standard, static dining halls. They want to truly engage with their immediate surroundings as well as their greater community, and good design can provide the solution. The same considerations apply to the practice of “supportive housing.” In the article “The Power of a Home” (p. 28), ASID ICON examines this concept that adds a very human element to the standards of affordable, subsidized housing. Intended for the most vulnerable populations, supportive housing adds social services— skills training, addiction counseling, mental health, and medical services—to the equation, placing considerable value on the wellness, progress, and prosperity of its residents. A safe and nurturing home environment is not a luxury. It’s among the most basic needs of every human, regardless of age, influence, or income level. Interior designers have the ability to empower all individuals to grow up and grow old in environments that support their health and well-being at every level.

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OF NOTE NOISE CONTROL

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1. Absorptive white ceiling panels from Armstrong Ceilings improve patient privacy at the Inova Children’s Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.

our mental and physical health. From offices and healthcare facilities to schools and residences, noisy spaces can have a significant impact on the way our brains and bodies function. At its worst, excess noise can lead to irreparable damage and disease. Environmental noise from road traffic and airplanes has been found to cause sleep disturbance in one out of every five people, according to a 2011 report from the World Health Organization. That report also found that chronic exposure to high levels of such noise can lead to higher blood pressure and an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, as well as permanent hearing damage and tinnitus. Excess noise in school environments can slow cognitive development, according to a study from the European Union that found impaired reading comprehension in students from schools located near airports. In hospitals, where rest is essential to recovery, noisy equipment and activity have been found to significantly disrupt the sleep of four out of 10 patients, based on a study of general medicine inpatients by the University of Chicago Medical Center. Noise, in other words, is a health problem. 14 icon JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS

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Interior designers understand this. “The number one surface to treat for noise control is the ceiling, because a lot of the sound you get is reverb—it hits the ceiling then bounces back down,” says Janet Kobylka, EDAC, LEED AP, principal of Health Design Source, a Dallas-based interior design consultancy. She says interior designers should be thinking about “the ABCs” when dealing with noise: absorb, block, and cover. Many in the field of building acoustics say that designers understand the problems noise can cause, but argue that not enough attention is being paid to the sometimes subtle ways that noisy environments can affect the people who use them. “The science is certainly there,” says Sean D. Browne, principal scientist at Armstrong World Industries, an acoustical surfaces manufacturer. He points to organizations like the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley and the Acoustical Society of America that gather and disseminate the sort of scientific findings that help acousticians and designers reduce reverb or improve the absorption of sound through new materials. Building certification programs, such as the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED system and the International WELL Building Institute’s WELL standard, have also taken noise into consideration, outlining requirements for sound-absorbing materials and maximum reverberation times. These approaches are particularly germane to the design of healthcare facilities, according to Anat Grant, LEED AP BD+C, director of acoustics at CSDA Design Group. “The underlying objective is usually to provide a less stressful, more relaxed acoustical environment and to promote patient privacy,” she says. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), privacy guidelines require that certain spaces within healthcare settings have specific levels of noise control. The design of these spaces—from nurses’ stations to pharmacies—requires increased attention to noise issues. Offices are another major area in need of acoustical control. With the rise of open plan offices and an increasing amount of noise-producing technology in typical office spaces, office noise can be both annoying and distracting. A 1998 study in the British Journal of Psychology found that simply being able to overhear other conversations in an office setting could reduce worker productivity by 66 percent. Browne says offices present huge acoustical challenges that are often left unaddressed. “The understanding is there, but I think in the office environment, it hasn’t translated to the people making the purchasing decisions that it’s necessary,” he explains. Designers should be more proactive in making the argument for improving a space’s acoustics, adds Kobylka. “A critical piece of any design solution, for almost any kind of commercial building—for education, for healthcare, for the workplace, even for hospitality—is to do an acoustic analysis of the design.” Improved modeling technologies are available to give designers and builders more information about what their projects can or could sound like. “Before you even start building it, ideally you need to have an acoustician review it,” she says. Designing to reduce noise doesn’t have to mean a bunch of ugly soundblocking equipment. Unlike the banal drop ceilings of the past, new acoustical materials are being developed that seamlessly blend in with other interior elements. “Any visual look that’s desired, there’s almost always a way to incorporate an acoustical material,” says Grant. “Sometimes it comes with a cost, but if a designer says I want a wood finish, then we can do these wood microperforated panels. You really can’t see the perforations until you’re way up close to them.” She also points to new fabrics and cloud-like acoustical panels that suspend from ceilings to provide visual and architectural appeal. Acoustic materials like these are broadening the options for interior designers, making it easier to reduce the harmful impacts of noise without sacrificing aesthetics.

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Sound masking systems are another important option for designers. These systems, which are often used in noisy office environments, emit low levels of background sound to mask the hum and buzz of a typical office space. And with acoustical modeling, designers can determine which parts of an office or healthcare facility or school will need the most acoustical treatment. “Designers are integrating it into a whole systems approach,” says Grant. “They’re not saying, ‘Yeah we’ll do the acoustics later.’ It’s part of the initial concept, with the mechanical systems and the lighting systems.” But even when acoustics are part of the design from day one, the demands of modern offices—and healthcare facilities and schoolrooms and coffee shops— are changing. Browne notes that interior designers and acousticians alike need to respond to design trends such as open office floor plans, high ceilings, and exposed beams, all of which have noise implications. He says businesses are starting to understand how these noises can be a problem, and are using design to work around them. “We’ll see in design plans that this is the space where we’re going to have more active collaboration, and then we have spaces that are for focusing, for heads down work,” he says. “The trend in office design is to provide different spaces.” There may be no way to completely resolve the health and concentration issues posed by noise. But by recognizing its disruptive and harmful impacts, designers can better act to reduce noise where it’s likely to do the most harm. Nate Berg is a freelance journalist who primarily covers cities, design, and technology. He is based in Los Angeles.

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2. In a high-ceilinged room at GE Advanced Manufacturing Works in Greenville, South Carolina, “cloud” noise panels from Armstrong Ceilings reduce acoustical reverberation time and noise levels, and increase speech intelligibility.

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breakout lounges, standing desks, and beanbag furniture, open office workplaces encountered a few side effects along the way. The open office plans being built by employers bombarded staff with aural interruptions that hampered productivity, obliterated the possibility of a confidential conversation, and became a drag on overall worker happiness. (An Oxford study found that more than half of employees say ambient noise reduces satisfaction at work.) After years of high-profile media companies like Facebook and Twitter touting the open office plan as the definitive vision for innovation-driven work that also looks a lot like play, the pendulum has started to reverse course, but this time with some careful nuances. Giving workers space to think quietly or work on tasks with a small group in an open office means creating a wider spectrum of public and private spaces, largely defined by differing amounts of acoustic privacy. ACOUSTIC BASICS

Unlike most design issues that at first appear to be niche concerns, the acoustic privacy of a space is a sprawling issue that can be dealt with in a variety of ways. That’s because “every material is acoustic,” says John Storyk, an architect, acoustician, and founder of architecture firm WSDG. Any finishing or object in a space can absorb, block, or transmit sound. Sometimes, Storyk adds, the difference between self-consciously branded acoustic features and regular ones is “just 18 icon JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS

1. Open office workspaces promote collaboration but can challenge acoustic privacy. Several sound-savvy companies have introduced technology that provides some privacy in a cubicle-free world.

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marketing.” The standard office cubicle farm under a drop ceiling blanketed in white acoustic panels not only takes a one-dimensional view of acoustic controls, it’s come to signify a way of working that’s stodgy. “There’s just so much more creativity in terms of the materiality, the shape, and the form of these things,” explains interior designer Lois Goodell of CBT in Boston. A basic rubric for managing the acoustic properties of spaces is the schoolyard-simple “ABC” acronym. Most spaces begin by installing some kind of absorptive material like ceiling panels (that’s “A”), move on to sound blocking (“B”) space dividers or furniture, and use sound masking devices to cover (“C”) ambient sound if necessary. Ceiling panels, like the kind made by ROCKFON, are the most common acoustic absorptive workhorses. ROCKFON specializes in stone wool panels made by melting volcanic rock and pouring it over a spinner that throws off thin strands of fireproof mineral fabric that repel water and are durable. Their porosity makes them ideal for sucking up sound. Ceilings are mostly unused space, unlike the floors we walk on or the walls we pin our marker boards to, so the square footage available for acoustic absorptive materials above our heads dwarfs the possibilities in other office areas. Beyond absorbing sound within a space, blocking sounds from traveling between spaces can be equally important, especially since workplace design trends are cutting back on traditional sound blockers like walls and cubicle dividers. Preventing sound from traveling from one space to another often is a simple matter of smart space planning, but acoustic wall panels can accomplish this,

2., 3., 4. Dost Architecture, a leading Swiss firm known for its attention to acoustics, employed Living Plant Wall Murals by Verticalis to reduce the noise level in the Hirslanden Heart Clinic. The panels absorb sound at the same rate as a standard acoustical wall panel.

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too. Armstrong World Industries has a line of traditional acoustic wall panel systems in a variety of materials (mineral wool, fiber glass, perforated wood), and its Total Acoustics line of ceiling panels both absorbs and blocks sound. If you’re looking for wall panels with more visual impact, however, Swedish furniture company Offecct offers richly textured acoustic wall panels by name-brand designers like Karim Rashid.

5., 6., 7. BuzziSpace provides a variety of different space dividers, including the BuzziDesk FlipFlop (5), the BuzziHub (6), and the BuzziHood (7).

Likewise, furniture can both block and absorb sound, and a small group of furniture-makers are crafting their product lines to use contemporary aesthetics to stylishly tackle noise reduction. BuzziSpace, a Belgian company that’s been in the United States for four years, makes acoustic space dividers of any scale, from head-to-toe movable walls with a playful profile of neon-colored mountains to foldable dividers that can be stowed in a messenger bag and set up at the next coffee shop that becomes your mobile office. Covered in soft “eco-felt” recycled PET plastic, BuzziSpace’s traditional furniture and privacy pods come with or without integrated seating—all in a bright palette of rounded corners assembled with a kind of bounce-house enthusiasm. Several of their products apply acoustic privacy with surgical precision and minimal impact on surrounding spaces. The company’s BuzziHood is part privacy phone booth, meant for workers to lean into while they make a quick call from their cell phones. Smartly deployed furniture and panel systems can make any space libraryquiet. But these features, and quieter HVAC systems like chilled beams, can make things a little too quiet when a single hushed syllable can be as 20 icon JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS

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“MASKING” MORE THAN SOUND

distracting as the most insidious ringtone. “As building systems are getting quieter, we have to be more cognizant of how to solve the acoustic challenges that quieter building systems create,” says Dave Madson, an interior designer with CBT. One solution is sound masking systems that raise the ambient noise level of an otherwise quiet space. These systems emit sound (commonly compared to whooshing air) engineered to block the frequencies of human speech so that office neighbors’ conversations don’t distract from an individual’s tasks. Cambridge Sound Management’s systems consist of networks of 3-inch speakers, each weighing about as much as a baseball, which are installed in the ceiling and project sound directly into the workplace. They’re controlled via a wall panel or a web-based interface. Sound masking can be particularly handy when a design calls for unfinished and exposed ceilings, since a few small speakers won’t ruin the sense of raw authenticity and material honesty. SOUND BARRIER BREAKTHROUGH?

This growing menu of options indicates that the acoustical design of spaces won’t just be a niche concern for designers in the future. Storyk says that acoustics are on the verge of being integrated into design best practices. “Acoustics is the ‘green’ of 10 years ago,” explains Daniel Monier, head of national sales for BuzziSpace. He says designers are thinking through how to incorporate better acoustics into all kinds of spaces, and he’s working with them earlier and earlier in the design process. The reasons for this, according to Storyk, are a function of demographics and the evolving regulatory climate. As baby boomers get older and harder of hearing, their need for perfectly attuned environments increases. And since 2002, new acoustic standards for classroom acoustics (like ANSI S12.60, Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements and Guidelines for Schools) have been developed and adopted by several states. Further public acceptance of the importance of acoustics will hinge on the amount of transparency between manufacturers’ claims and their products’ real level of performance, but there are no broad-based domestic certification bodies for acoustics that function like the non-profit Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) does for sustainable buildings. In 2013, an acoustics certification organization, Acoustic Facts, sprung up in Sweden. Acoustic Facts reviews measurements from independent laboratories, and is funded by the product manufacturers whose products they test. Storyk trusts small handfuls of independent labs (SoundKinetics, Johns Manville’s Technical Center, Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories, IBM’s Acoustical Services) for product specifications. If the current wave of acoustical privacy measures is driven by the need to attenuate open plan offices to the desires of the people that work there, the next wave might come from completely decoupling workers from their offices. A Gallup poll from 2015 found that more than one-third of U.S. workers telecommute, and an entire industry of co-working spaces like WeWork have cropped up, catering to entrepreneurial millennials who want to design software next to graphic designers and start-up public relations firms. There are fewer and fewer reasons to come to a centralized office, but just as many reasons to want acoustic privacy. As such, Goodell says she’s on the lookout for “targeted acoustical products” that create a hyper-localized acoustic barrier around a person, wherever they might go. Madson notes this might include “active sound masking” devices that listen with microphones to the noises going on around individuals, that then emit opposing sound waves to specifically cancel out noise. Eventually, acoustic privacy might be as mobile as the workforce that requires it. Zach Mortice is a freelance architectural journalist based in Chicago. He was previously the managing editor at The American Institute of Architects.

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1. Color blindness, cataracts, glaucoma, and dementia affect the way color is perceived as we age.

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dramatically. By 2030, one in five in the United States and Canada will be 65 or older. That means interior designers must increasingly consider the needs of an older clientele. “It’s a huge opportunity for designers to get things right,” says Sacramento, California-based interior designer Kerrie Kelly of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab, who specializes in designing for an aging population. “You have to ask yourself, ‘What would I do if these clients were my parents?’”

The way we perceive color and light changes significantly over time. “Perception clearly changes as we age,” notes Carl Minchew, who oversees color innovation and design for Benjamin Moore & Co., “and the changes are psychological as well as physical. We don’t all react the same way, either. Some people become more interested in brighter colors as they age—think of your grandmother wearing brightly colored clothing. Other people become more sensitive and actually prefer things to be more muted. They find it jarring to be around bright color.” Clients can experience a number of changes in color vision as they age. Particularly in men, color blindness can be common, which causes people to confuse blue with green, for example, and yellow with violet. Even if an elderly client is not technically color blind, he or she may have increasing difficulty discerning 22 icon JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 | THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS

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between cool color tones like purple, blue, and green, which makes warmer colors like red, orange, and yellow more attractive. One of the most common visionrelated ailments is cataracts, in which the lens of the eye “starts to turn cloudy with a yellowish, brownish tint,” explains Mark Pennesi, MD, Ph.D., an ophthalmologist at Oregon Health & Science University’s Casey Eye Institute in Portland. “When the lens starts to turn yellow, less blue light gets to the retina.” As a result, the blue-yellow axis of color vision becomes disturbed. Pennesi also warns of the effects of macular degeneration, which can blur central vision and make objects less bright. Patients may experience delayed adaptation at changing light levels. Another common ailment that can affect color vision is glaucoma. In addition, dementia can affect vision in a variety of ways, from perception of patterns to the differentiation of contrasting colors.

2. Aging clients may find it difficult to discern similar colors in their environments. Experts suggest using color proportionally, in the same way color is often found in nature.

HOW IT’S MADE COLOR-SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE AGING

CONTRAST AND DIFFERENTIATION

Interior designers have a variety of options to use color wisely and in service to clients with less than perfect color vision. It can start with something as simple as contrast. “Anywhere we can add some contrast, especially by creating some differentiation amidst darker areas, it helps the eye,” Kelly says. A dark bathroom wall might allow one to see the white sink or the toilet and navigate those areas better, for example, or a white doorframe against a dark wall in a bedroom or public area can help make it more visible. At the same time, cautions Ana Pinto-Alexander, RID, EDAC, who leads healthcare interior design projects for HKS Architects in Dallas, contrast should be avoided on surfaces like walls and floors. “In elder facilities, we never do hard contrast in a floor or wall, because clients can actually see it as a hole. It can be an unintended optical illusion that could cause a misstep or fall.”

CHOOSING COLORS

LIGHT AND SHEEN

Designers should also be aware of how glare and sheen can impact visibility. Whether it’s because of corrective lenses or because of vision challenges like cataracts or glaucoma, sensitivity to glare seems to increase as we age. As a result, Benjamin Moore’s Minchew says, “High gloss paint may not be the best approach [when] clients are aged. I’d go with more of a matte or lower sheen for sure.” Light also can change the way we see color, so PintoAlexander recommends testing a potential color with a variety of light sources, both natural and artificial. “I have a little lighting box that shows the effect of different illumination. If I’m selecting a certain blue, I move from fluorescent to incandescent to make sure that blue is the right blue. In the evening, it could be a blue-gray, but in the morning it might be a happy blue.” As time creates an aging client base, there is a huge opportunity for designers to specialize in creating interiors for this demographic. An understanding of how color perception changes as we age, coupled with knowledge of universal design and a desire to help seniors thrive in place, are essential to success in designing for our elders.

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3. When designing for the aging population, experts suggest using low-gloss paint to avoid glare. 4. & 5. The use of contrasting colors, dark against light, helps aging clients navigate their environments more successfully.

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Although no color should be banished or overused, many designers find it’s useful to avoid substantial use of yellow color schemes in spaces for aging clients because of the effects of cataracts, for example. Moving to a pastel yellow may not help, because it can look white. Certain clients may also find that shades of blue or violet look gray, and colors adjacent to each other on the color wheel may also be hard to discern. But rather than avoiding colors, Pinto-Alexander says it’s about proportion. “Ninety-nine percent of us feel the best outdoors, and the whole spectrum is represented there,” she explains. “But the key in nature is how proportional the colors are. If you see a green field, there’s blue and white in the background in the sky and clouds. There are green hills in the background. And if you look closely, there are dabs of orange or blue or yellow in the flowers. So in healthcare environments, we use the whole color spectrum, because you can have a lot of color in a space without it looking too bright when it’s proportionally placed.” Most designers also associate different color tones with emotional or physiological responses. “Once you create enough contrast for easy navigation, colors can really affect mood,” Kelly explains. “Green can be calming, blue may be more soothing, and red can stimulate appetite.”

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The House of Ruth provides supportive housing for survivors of domestic violence in Washington, D.C. Services include skills training, mental health support, medical care, and more.

The Power of a Home

Feeling truly “at home” is essential for improving the lives of those who are less fortunate BY BRIAN J. BARTH

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KIA WEATHERSPOON’S PATH to interior design

began in a tent pitched on the sands of Qatar, just two weeks after 9/11. She joined the Air National Guard to finance her college education—Weatherspoon was an aspiring dancer at the time. However, the experience of living in a tent with 14 other women led to a life-changing realization: the importance of having a nurturing interior space as a retreat when the exterior world is too harsh to handle. Fifteen years later, that line of thinking is central to her career as an interior designer specializing in affordable and supportive housing. Three military-issue bed sheets suspended from the ceiling with bits of string were the only means Weatherspoon had at the time to create a sanctuary in her corner of the tent, where she bawled her eyes out at the thought of the violent and bewildering environment that life had suddenly delivered her. Her makeshift room wasn’t much, but it gave her the solace she needed to carry on. These days, Weatherspoon, who founded the boutique Washington, D.C. firm Determined by Design in 2012, tells the story as a parable when talking to developers about the need for high-quality interior design in affordable housing. Unsurprisingly, most developers balk at the idea of hiring an interior designer to elevate a low-budget project above minimum code requirements—which is why most affordable housing

projects feel more like barracks than neighborhoods of lovingly cared-for homes. “Good design is about thoughtfulness,” says Weatherspoon. “It’s not about being expensive. There are budget-conscious ways to elevate any space.” AFTER STARTING HER OWN FIRM, Weatherspoon

volunteered to design the interiors for a project by the Washington, D.C. non-profit, House of Ruth, for survivors of domestic violence. Twelve women and 32 children now inhabit the 12-unit apartment building, which is considered “supportive housing,” a subtype of affordable housing intended for the most vulnerable populations. Although, affordable housing generally refers to any form of subsidized housing where tenants are asked to pay no more than 30 percent of their income in rent, supportive housing is not only subsidized for low-income families and individuals. It also includes social services for the resident population—skills training, mental health services, addiction counseling, childcare, medical care, and so on. Beyond these critical services, the space itself can contribute to the healing of those who live there. Such thinking is now widely accepted in the healthcare industry, but Weatherspoon is working to make this a standard in housing designed for low-income and vulnerable people. At the House of Ruth, she ASID.ORG | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 icon 29

Kia Weatherspoon, Allied ASID (pictured right), is working to make quality design standard in housing designed for vulnerable populations. The healthcare industry now widely accepts the idea that the built environment can contribute to healing and well-being.

change in building material provided a more visually appealing solution. Weatherspoon always weighs paint color carefully for its visual and psychological impact. It might take an interior designer an hour to come up with a matching palette that feels warm and embracing. But for a resident returning from long hours at a lowpaying job, it provides a blanket of comfort over the years. This effect is a stark contrast to the thoughtless color selection often made by contractors, which can leave a space feeling cold and unharmonious. One of Weatherspoon’s favorite approaches is to add something simple at the entryway of each unit to create a sense of arrival. Even a single swatch of wood-like LVT (luxury vinyl tile) will do the trick, she says. “It’s just about creating a sense of home. When you enter your home, there should always be some personal touch that says you’ve arrived.” Perhaps most importantly, the design should not be imposed on residents. Rather, they should be consulted on what makes them feel at home, an approach Weatherspoon has maintained since her first project with House of Ruth. “For me it was really important to take these women through the entire design process—to treat them like clients, and not just say, ‘Here, we are giving this to you.’ I realized that the people who need access to a welldesigned space the most don’t know that they don’t have it, they don’t know they need it, and they don’t know how to ask for it,” she notes. But like almost anyone, residents see the value in a warm, healthy home once they are exposed to one.

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GOOD-QUALITY HOUSING IS more than just func-

tional, warm, and inviting. It should be constructed in an environmentally sound manner—another way in which interior designers are positioned to make a contribution to affordable housing projects. In Minneapolis, the non-profit affordable housing developer Aeon completed construction on The Rose, a 90-unit mixed-income apartment complex designed to be 75 percent more energy efficient than code requirements, and to treat 75 percent of storm water on-site. Forty-seven of the units are designated as affordable housing. This designation gives low-income families access to what are typically considered high-end amenities, such as security guards, heated underground parking, a fitness room, a yoga studio, resident lounges, and event space. The affordable units are indistinguishable from the market-rate units: All come with granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances, and are constructed

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saw the results firsthand. “The ‘aha’ moment for me was when we finished the project and one woman came to me and said, ‘Miss Kia, when I walked into this room, I realized change was possible for me.’ These women kept saying things like, ‘We can’t believe someone wants to do this for us,’ ‘I thought this stuff was only obtainable on TV,’ and ‘I never knew this could exist for me.’ That was such a humbling experience. You can’t quantify that with a billable hour,” explains Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon’s first project may have been pro bono, but it has since led to a series of paid projects. She hones her ideas about designing supportive space for vulnerable people, and the tactics that make it work economically. Her advice? “Go back to the basics. Make sure you have a strong concept that connects to the community being served.” After solidifying a concept that connects, Weatherspoon recommends a detailed cost-benefit analysis in the materials selection process. Specifically, designers must look carefully at product and installation costs for each option, while keeping the greater goals in mind. On one project, she wanted to add wood detailing to bring warmth to an interior corridor that felt drab and oppressive. Wood laminate wasn’t feasible, but Weatherspoon found an attractive wood wallcovering instead, which was inexpensive and quick for contractors to install. On another project, she convinced the developer to abandon the dropped ceiling designed by the project architect, and substituted whitepainted drywall for the acoustical ceiling tiles. The

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The Rose is a mixed-income apartment complex south of downtown Minneapolis. Forty-seven units are designated as affordable housing and provide low-income families access to a home that includes a fitness room, a yoga studio, resident lounges, and event spaces. Rachelle Schoessler Lynn, FASID (pictured left), the 2016 ASID Designer of Distinction, oversaw the interior design work for Minneapolis-based project architecture firm, MSR.

with exclusively non-toxic materials and finishes. In the courtyard between the two four-story buildings, there is a 5,000-square-foot community garden where residents maintain their own food plots and enjoy a playground, a rain garden, a patio with grills, a fire pit, and ample seating. The community garden features a professionally designed landscape that buzzes with bees, birds, butterflies, and human activity. With its chic, ultra-modern design and externally visible sustainability features (like solar water heating panels), one could easily mistake The Rose for an upscale condo development. In addition, The Rose functions like a village commons, where a diverse mix of tenants, including a number of Somalian immigrants, look after each other’s children and share home-cooked food. The Rose is not your ordinary affordable housing development, to say the least, and is arguably one of the most innovative projects of its kind in the country. The completion of the project in fall 2015 was the final phase in the revitalization of a major intersection located just south of downtown Minneapolis—once a drug-ridden neighborhood characterized by boardedup businesses and recurring street violence. Today, The Rose is the crowning achievement of the Hope Community, a service organization that has been active in the neighborhood since 1977 and has won several awards, including the Urban Land Institute’s Jack Kemp Award and The American Institute of Architecture Minnesota’s Honor Award. Building such a high-quality project within the constraints of an affordable housing budget was quite a hat trick. Rachelle Schoessler Lynn, FASID, who oversaw interior design work on The Rose for MSR, a Minneapolis-based project architecture firm, says the key to making it work was close collaboration among the many designers and consultants involved. “It’s really about understanding what everybody’s different components are and how you can work together—the engineers, lighting designers, architects, landscape architects—because you’re all sharing the same budget.”

Numerous design iterations were created in order to find the right combination of features that met sustainability goals and financial constraints. Fortunately, the developer was able to attract grant money to cover the cost of the extra research. “You can’t silo yourself,” says Lynn of the design process. “If I could change up something I’m thinking about on the inside to help [other team members] achieve their goals, or if they could give up something that could help me achieve my goals on the interior, then we would have a discussion about that.” The team came close to achieving the developer’s initial goal of receiving certification from the International Future Living Institute. Its Living Building Challenge standard includes “net-zero” energy—producing as much energy on-site as is consumed—and managing 100 percent of storm water on-site—a certification that The Rose may still achieve with future retrofits. Of the seven sustainability categories (or “petals”) that comprise the Living Building Challenge, The Rose is most likely to achieve the materials petal using non-toxic, low carbon footprint products and finishes in its interiors, a subject Lynn has focused on throughout her 20-plus years of experience. “Making material choices that are healthy instead of toxic is super important for residents of affordable housing projects, people who often are the most vulnerable to a variety of illnesses,” says Lynn. “Children may be more susceptible to asthma; they may not have access to healthy foods or even grocery stores; they might have more issues with diabetes or high blood pressure; and [their] stress level in general is high. Anything that designers can do to help alleviate those illnesses is a positive thing, such as reducing asthma symptoms by using non-toxic materials.” Part of Aeon’s mandate for the project includes post-occupancy research to establish best practices that can be applied to other affordable housing projects. The organization is working with the Healthy Building Network, a national non-profit with a

“ Making material choices that are healthy instead of toxic is super important for residents of affordable housing projects, people who often are the most vulnerable to a variety of illnesses.” RACHELLE SCHOESSLER LYNN, FASID, CID, LEED FELLOW, MSR

mission to improve public health through better design of the built environment, and to develop a free online tool to help designers and developers source healthier building materials for affordable housing projects. The tool, called HomeFree, is currently in a pilot phase and will include hundreds of non- and less-toxic building materials rated on a variety of other criteria important to builders, such as aesthetics, cost, durability, and maintenance requirements. “A lot of people fall into the trap of always using the same materials,” notes Lynn. “[HomeFree] is a way to see what people are doing across the country on affordable housing projects, and to help developers make the leap above and beyond the status quo.” Brian J. Barth is a freelance writer with a background in environmental planning and design.

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BOOMER INSPIRATION As baby boomers retire, their expectations—in longevity and lifestyle for themselves and their parents—are affecting designs for senior living BY LISA OWENS VIANI

EIGHTY MAY BE THE NEW 60, but that

doesn’t mean most of us relish getting older. While there are certainly some benefits— gaining wisdom, not sweating the small stuff—there are plenty of downsides. Our bones become less dense; we lose muscle mass and strength and balance; and our eyes, ears, and parts of our brains don’t function as well. Another drawback (at least for many people) is the possibility of being uprooted and having to move into some type of senior living facility. In the not-too-distant past, many of these places had a hospital vibe and were tucked away from mainstream society. But as baby boomers reach retirement age, and/or help their parents cope with aging, they are looking for facilities that have the comforts and choices they are used to—places that are less institutional and isolated than those their grandparents may have lived in. RETHINKING THE STATUS QUO

Margaret Calkins is executive director of The Mayer-Rothschild Foundation and founder of the IDEAS Institute, a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of older adults through applied research. She says that although there is a big movement to help people age at home in their own communities, there will always be a need for senior living or residential healthcare and support facilities, formerly

known as nursing homes. And, according to Calkins, there is a need to better design those places, boomer-driven or not. “There are some amazing nursing homes, but they are few in number,” she says. “The vast majority are okay but not great, and don’t offer a good quality of life. It’s a tough time of life, and you’re there because your body is failing and you need help. We can do better.” StudioSIX5 in Austin, Texas, is working to raise the bar. Dean Maddalena, founder and president, explains that good design can mitigate the feeling of being old and needing help so people can age with dignity. “I’m really passionate about seniors, so to be able to design wonderful spaces for our elders is the most rewarding design work I’ve ever done in my life,” says Maddalena. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day, he notes, the demand for better facilities will keep growing—and there is a huge role for designers. “Senior living is everything you’ve ever done, just in one building.” He designs facilities all along the spectrum: from more active, multi-family-oriented buildings to independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing—all of which can involve short- and long-term rehab, acute care, and hospice. With baby boomers pondering where they want to live or might end up living, these facilities can no longer be dated or dumpy,

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urges Maddalena. “People have always had a certain perception of what senior living is; it’s always been the Queen Anne matching furniture with paisley tapestry,” he says. “But people don’t want that anymore. We’re really trying to modernize these spaces and create contemporary environments so people can age in an environment they love. It’s important to stand out when people are going from one place to another to decide where to live.” Maddalena tries to design places the whole family will want to visit. “Our rule of thumb is that we are designing for the first-born, 56-year-old daughter helping her mother or father find a place that she and her family will want to visit. We want to make them really vibrant.” Part of that vibrancy involves interaction with other people: Smaller facilities housing less people promote greater socialization among residents, adds Calkin. New facilities often have common areas and clubhouses for that same purpose. And while senior living facilities used to be hidden in the outskirts of town, many are now being built close to urban or suburban centers of activity where residents can be part of the community and not isolated, says Maddalena. His firm designs meeting rooms in senior living facilities to attract community groups like the local PTA, which also fosters outside interaction with residents. ASID.ORG | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 icon 35

Open, restaurant-style dining areas, bright community spaces, and attractive amenities are top of mind for seniors choosing a new place to live as they age. Memory boxes at each doorway make wayfinding safer and easier for residents.

While the new nursing home may look more contemporary and feel more casual, it must still address the challenges of older bodies and minds—especially deteriorating eyesight, sleep, and mobility. “The eye can’t go from light to dark as quickly as when you were 20,” says Maddalena. “And it’s harder to go from a darker to a bright surface.” He uses as much ambient lighting as possible, as well as LED lighting that changes throughout the day to match outdoor, natural light. “In the a.m., the lighting is more blue; in the evenings it’s more on the red spectrum to support natural sleeping rhythms,” he explains, adding that this is important for everyone but especially for people with Alzheimer’s, who have problems with their circadian rhythm. To support residents with arthritis and other mobility issues, studioSIX5 designs chairs for furniture-maker Kwalu that have arms, handles, and adjustable seat heights and depths for different levels of care. Kwalu furniture is made from a strong and durable

polymer material that looks like wood but is easy to clean, with stain-resistant chair fabrics that can also have an added moisture barrier. Carol Reitter Elia, founder of CR Design in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, also specializes in senior living. She too, has seen a shift over the past 20 years, driven by baby boomers. “This demographic has led us to design much more in the contemporary realm. The 85-year-old isn’t really as concerned about the facility as his or her 60- or 65-year-old child,” she says. Boomers are used to having lots of choices, she notes, so even basic things like room size and food service are changing. “In the past, these facilities were designed for single beds,” says Elia. “We’re now designing much larger rooms to accommodate queen- or even king-sized beds, so spouses can be there comfortably.” Dining facilities are much more varied than in the past. “Senior living used to be geared toward ‘breakfast at eight; dinner at five,’” explains Elia. But now, instead of big dining halls, the trend is toward

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To make the trip from the bar to the bedroom safe, but less drab than the monotonous halls of yesterday, Elia and Maddalena install handrails made to look more like chair rails, as well as lots of art and wayfinding features. Maddalena says he now uses paint more often than vinyl, noting it is easier to maintain and touch up the damage sustained from walkers or carts. Even with the help of a walker or rail, one of the biggest safety problems for seniors is falling, and most people fall at night when they can’t see as well. To help reduce injuries from falls, new flooring is now available with padding underneath in different levels of cushiness, and grab bars with LED lighting help illuminate pathways. Companies are even making beds with motion sensors that activate a light at floor level when a resident gets up in the middle of the night. These are amber so the circadian

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“restaurants” with open kitchens, and coffee shops reminiscent of the corner Starbucks. “One of the biggest changes I’ve seen in the last 10 years is facilities with more casual ‘grab and go’ options, and less formal dining,” says Elia. “Everyone is going back to casual dining with service, and casual dining where you can get a buffet—or a custom pizza made in a wood-fired stove.” And boomers want bars and alcohol, another departure from the old-style nursing home where alcohol was often forbidden or discouraged. Maddalena says he is building bars to accommodate every resident, with different bar and table heights. “Bars are the center of every community,” he adds. “When we go back and ask if we could do one thing over again, they ask us to make the bar twice as big. Everyone looks forward to happy hour.”

“It’s a tough time of life, and you’re there because your body is failing and you need help. We can do better.” MARGARET CALKINS

“Our rule of thumb is that we are designing for the first-born, 56-year-old daughter helping her mother or father find a place that she and her family will want to visit.”

“Boomers are used to having lots of choices, so even basic things like room size and food service are changing.” CAROL REITTER ELIA

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rhythm is not disrupted and the whole room isn’t overly bright, explains Calkins, “so you’re just lighting the floor and maybe a night light over the toilet.” It is very important to have contrast for safety in bathrooms, she adds. “So many are white on beige. But take a pair of glasses and put Vaseline on them, and you can see why you might need greater contrast.” There is also a trend toward designing bigger bathrooms with showers and tubs, or Europeanstyle bathrooms where the whole room acts as the wet room. Designing residents’ rooms so they can see directly into the bathroom greatly helps reduce falls, according to Calkins. She suggests that anyone interested in designing for senior living take a course in gerontology: “You can’t design for aging if you don’t understand the aging process—vision changes, hearing changes, and balance changes. You risk creating environments that create hazards. It’s good to understand the psychology and physiology of aging.” She has seen some mistakes in new facilities designed to look less institutional. “One of the trends I’ve seen is that they become ‘pseudo-hospitality.’ In hospitality [environments], the floor is considered a surface to decorate. But it really needs to be functional.” That doesn’t mean ugly, she adds, but “you don’t want big bold patterns. You need to see where your feet are if you are walking down the corridor.” Calkins has a soft spot for dementia patients and says designers can help by creating facilities that do not segregate them. “In some ways, it’s easier to put them behind a door and forget about them. But what we used to call ‘behaviors’—such as ‘wandering’— we now know are usually caused by a person being bored with no way to initiate their own activities, or being over-stimulated with no way to escape.”

Designers have a huge role in addressing those situations, she insists. “Assume you are going to have dementia. How do you want to live? Where do you want to live and how do you want to be treated? When you force yourself to really think about those questions, you begin to think about ways to make their facility as good as possible.” One new feature studioSIX5 has designed for Alzheimer’s patients is a digital “memory box” to help trigger memories using the patient’s own photos or items they have created, as well as historical images. REWARDING RESULTS

Calkins recommends visiting lots of different senior living facilities. “Spend a little time seeing what life is like. That will help you understand it and the cultural shift that’s happening.” Designers need to act as advocates for residents, she says. “If you understand the principles of person-centered care, one of your responsibilities is to include the voices of residents in the design process. It’s more than just putting up three color boards and asking which one they like; it’s getting at more meaningful design decisions. It’s not always easy, but it is more rewarding.” That feeling of reward—seeing residents smile after their old facility has been renovated—is a big reason Maddalena and Elia specialize in this field. “What we do is so very interesting,” says Elia. “Senior living involves so many aspects of design—hallways, cottages, apartments, condos, healthcare, admin offices, etc. If you are looking to get into a field where you’re doing pretty much everything all the time, this is it.”

BABY BOOMER RETIREMENT TRENDS It’s not news that baby boomers, people born between 1946 and 1964, are starting to turn 65 and beginning to retire in droves. A new Census Bureau report shows just how quickly baby boomers are retiring and how they are supporting themselves in retirement. There are just over 40 million Americans age 65 and older, and they make up 13 percent of the population. By 2030, when all the baby boomers will have passed age 65, the over-65 crowd will make up 20 percent of the population. At that time, the median age of Americans will increase to 39.6 years, up from 37.2 today, and a significant increase from just under 30 in the 1960s and ’70s. SOURCE: U.S. NEWS

Lisa Owens Viani is a writer and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Among her credits are articles in Architecture, Bay Nature, California Wild, Utne Reader, and Forefront (UC Berkeley College of Engineering).

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Chicago firm Tigerman McCurry with her husband, Stanley Tigerman. Their work is known for its emphasis on precision and functionality, creating artful buildings and spaces that, although based in several traditions, wear their learning lightly. The Tigerman McCurry practice has designed across an industrywide spectrum, including commercial, cultural, and institutional buildings, as well as private residences. In addition, McCurry designs furnishings, fabrics, and accessories. Chicago-born and bred, design was a large part of McCurry’s childhood, growing up on the South Side in an international-style house designed by her architect father, Paul Durbin McCurry. She received a bachelor’s degree in art history from Vassar and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she is currently president of the Alumni/ae Council. She spent more than a decade at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Chicago office collaborating on numerous projects, including an addition to the Art Institute of Chicago. The recipient of numerous awards, including induction into the Interior Design Hall of Fame, McCurry has been honored by The American Institute of Architects, and has received national and local Interior Design Project Awards from the American Society of Interior Designers. She and her husband live in a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe apartment tower in the city. Their beloved getaway is a small cottage they designed in a Michigan town just a block from the Lake, where ICON spoke to McCurry.

ICON: Has Chicago gotten over the World Series? MM: I went to a luncheon recently, all women of certain levels of accomplishment, and an economist was speaking. Every time there was something too economically terrible to contemplate, she would say, “Go Cubs! Go Cubs!”

ICON: How do you man-

age to work with a spouse without bloodshed? MM: Mostly we don’t work together. We have our own clients. We’re here in the cottage that we designed years ago, the first house we did together. ICON: With never a cross word? MM: Oh, many. But it worked. And it works.

make it happen.” It’s an educational process. But ICON: What’s the first you have to know when to thing you designed or built? say to your client, “No, you MM: When I was eight, my can’t do that.” Stanley and dad bought new furniture I have a deal where if they for the house and I took all become the client from the cardboard boxes they hell, we can tell them to came in and made aparttake a flying leap off a cliff. ments on the driveway. But that’s rare.

ICON: When you look up from your desk at work, what do you see? MM: Stanley, a couple of ICON: What lessons did desks away looking in the you learn from your father other direction. Books that you still employ today? everywhere. MM: When I was little, I went on job sites with ICON: What do you him, playing in buildalways have with you? ings under construction, MM: A tape measure. I swinging from roof beams. encourage young peoHe was very much a prople in the office to do the fessional and I learned same. Remember proporthat side from him, the tions. When you’re in a business side of the profes- space, ask yourself what sion, which is as important feels good about it, and as the design side. what doesn’t. I used to always have a camera, but ICON: Ideas from him that now I use my phone to ICON: I love the name you rejected? take pictures. Margaret, which you don’t MM: He was afraid to encounter much anymore. encourage me to be an ICON: Who is the client Are you a Peggy or Peg? architect since there from hell? MM: No, no, no. I was a weren’t many women MM: One who is unwilltomboy and wanted a architects at the time. ing to learn. Or one who pony for Christmas, but He thought I’d be disaphas an idea of what they instead I got a doll and I pointed. We come from a want and then they tell named her Peggy. That’s long line of schoolteachers you what the budget is how I feel about Peggy. so he thought I could do and the two are not comStanley calls me “Grets,” the same. I had to wiggle patible. I tell them, “Let’s the back half of Margaret. my way into my profession. work out a way and still

strong beliefs and there’s a spiritual—not an ecclesiastical—connection to the Shakers of removing ornamentation.

ICON: When you wake in the morning, how long is it before you start to think about work? MM: It depends on the ICON: When you’re hiring day. If there’s a problem to someone, what part of the solve, than I wake up with resume do you ignore? it. Or in the middle of MM: We rarely hire out of the night with it. There’s the Ivy League. They want always a sketchpad next to be a partner right away. to the bed for ideas when We say, “We love to design they come. things, and if you want to learn from us, then sit and ICON: When you arrive in learn from us.” And we a place you’ve never been, always ask, “Why do you what’s the first thing you want to come here? Why look for? us?” If everything they say MM: How the people live. is, “Me, me, me,” then we I’m immediately out walkgo, “Whoa, whoa, whoa.” ing. And landscape. I come from Irish peasants on ICON: If you could dispel one side and Scotch-Irish one cliché or misunderlandowners on the other, standing about designers, so I need to be out in a what would it be? landscape or I shrivel up. MM: That we don’t care. That we don’t bleed over Ambrose Clancy is the editor what we do. of the Shelter Island Reporter

You’ve spoken of a bond between the modernist idea of stripping things down and the Shaker conception of simplicity in design. MM: There is a connection. Modernism had ICON:

and a novelist, nonfiction book author, and journalist.

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How It’s Made: Color-Sensitive Environments for the Aging...........................22 Benjamin Moore & Co. www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us HKS Architects www.hksinc.com Kerrie Kelly Design Lab www.kerriekelly.com Oregon Health & Science University’s Casey Eye Institute www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/ services/casey-eye

ASID Website....................................................................... 41 www.asid.org

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studioSIX5 www.studiosix5.com The Mayer-Rothschild Foundation www.themayerrothschildfoundation.org Iconic Profile: Margaret McCurry...................38 Harvard University Graduate School of Design www.gsd.harvard.edu Interior Design Hall of Fame www.interiordesign.net/ page/8-hall-of-fame Skidmore, Owings & Merrill www.som.com The American Institute of Architects www.aia.org Tigerman McCurry Architects www.tigerman-mccurry.com

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