PHOTO TOUR: Trinity Woods
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The community’s recent multiphase project includes a new assisted living building, community life center, and standalone memory care building.
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New amenity spaces including a salon and spa, activity rooms, large and small banquet halls, and various gathering spaces focus on aspects of social and intellectual wellness for residents. Careful consideration was given to the transitions between these spaces; here, the decorative metal screens and fountains provide subtle acoustic and visual separations.
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The luxurious, state-of-the-art salon and spa features wet and dry styling stations, a manicure and pedicure area, massage room, and retail space. Modern finishes such as wood parquet look luxury vinyl tile, veined porcelain tile, and laser-cut metal screens lend an upscale feel to the salon and spa suite. The materials and fixtures in this space re-interpret patterns and motifs to create a complex yet cohesive palette.
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The wellness hall in the community life center invites residents to gather by the fireplace, sit with a friend to play board games, or play pool in this flexible communal space. The space was designed so that residents could be “alone together”–smaller seating groups on the periphery overlook the larger activity spaces in the middle. Wood-look ceramic tile flooring, rustic laminate casework, and cultured stone provide a warmth and scale to this space.
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A variety of small-scale seating areas in the wellness hall are arranged for residents to gather informally or meet after a major event in the new banquet hall. The central “element in the round” creates bookshelves and display areas on the periphery and intimate gathering space within.
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The assisted living building includes a full commercial kitchen and new dining venue, which focuses on fresh, local foods. The use of decorative screens and a central two-sided fireplace provide an intimate dining experience.
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Multiple courtyards were created between the new and existing buildings to extend living and dining spaces outdoors. Shade structures and trees provide comfortable area for gathering, while shuffleboard and other recreation spaces encourage activity.
Over the last decade, Trinity Woods in Tulsa, Okla., has worked with Eppstein Uhen Architects (Milwaukee) to transform its 40-acre campus from an institutional nursing home to a thriving life plan community. Previous phases included the addition of an independent living building and renovation of an existing skilled nursing building. To continue its growth and support the wellness of residents, Trinity Woods embarked on another multiphase project that would add a new assisted living building, community life center, and standalone memory care building.
Expanding amenities to address more than just physical wellness, the project focuses on fostering social and intellectual wellness, becoming a hub for residents and visitors to gather and meet. This new heart of the campus provides a variety of scale and formality in its spaces to conform to various functions and utilizes contemporary wood, stone, and tile finishes in both traditional and unexpected detailing.
With these new phases, Trinity Woods sought to provide a mix of living options and amenities to attract older adults seeking a healthy, active lifestyle. The first phase included construction of the three-story assisted living building with 40 apartments and associated commons on the upper two floors, a full commercial kitchen, and a dining venue on the first floor. The first floor also features offices, activity rooms, medical suite, and salon and spa. The large dining and salon areas are made to feel intimate with the use of decorative screens sub-dividing the space, and both have direct views or access to beautiful gardens and patios.
The second phase included a new community life center, built to connect to the first floor of the assisted living building and to provide more gathering space on campus. The center includes a new banquet hall for large resident gatherings and concerts as well as smaller connected banquet halls, ample pre-function space, a catering kitchen, and refreshment bar. The adjacent wellness hall supports a variety of small-scale gatherings for residents.
Finally, two memory care households each with 12 residents were added to expand residential options on campus. The orientation of all new buildings on site creates courtyards and pavilions to extend the resident experience outdoors.
Project details:
Facility name: Trinity Woods
Location Tulsa, Okla.
Completion date: August 2021
Owner: Trinity Woods (formerly Oklahoma Methodist Manor)
Total building area: 255,000 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: N/A
Cost/sq. ft.: N/A
Architecture firm: EUA
Interior design: EUA
General contractor: Stava Building Corporation (community center and memory care assisted living), Nabholz Construction (salon, kitchen, restaurant, and assisted living)
Engineering: Sisemore & Associates (civil), Pierce Engineers (structural), Cyntergy Engineering (MEP), Bryan France (AV)
