Rather than assume that senior citizens want their housing gussied up in wood shingles and faux Victoriana, the architects of Parkview Terraces in San Francisco treated the project’s residents as people looking to the future rather than the past. “We’ve moved beyond the time when seniors all wanted to live in places that look traditional,” states Sylvia Kwan, FAIA, a partner at Kwan Henmi and Anne Fougeron, which designed the 101-unit affordable senior housing project in collaboration with Fougeron Architecture. “We didn’t want to turn this into an old-people’s home,” explains Anne Fougeron, AIA, principal of Fougeron Architecture. “It’s a pretty sophisticated group living here, so we felt we could be quite modern,” adds Fougeron.

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