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CONSULTATIONS
The Helen Bader Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Architects: Kahler Slater Architects.
Consultants: Institute on Aging and Environment
The Helen Bader Center is a residential setting for 24 residents with Alzheimer's Disease or a related Dementia. The environment is designed to facilitate the highest level of residents' independence, respecting their privacy and dignity, and promoting activities and social interaction. Each household provides its residents with residential kitchen, intimate dining, living room and activity nooks, all of which reinforce the non-institutional ambiance.
Important Design Principles
The scale of the center is small to give it a separate identity despite the surrounding large mid-rise buildings. The unit is divided into two households of 12 residents, each with its own kitchen, dining, and activity space that create the domestic core. Activity spaces are located on the perimeter of the domestic core in which a resident can engage the wandering path allowing continuous movement overlooking activity spaces. The facility also has a roof garden which allows secure, movement of residents in an activity area that is a landscaped, sheltered micro-climate. The single and double occupancy rooms in each household provide for to the varying needs of the residents.
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| Diagram showing different spaces in the unit |
View of a household core with living/activity space, dining, and serving kitchen |
Religious space as an expression of cultural identity |
