Saint-Amour seniors housing

(Acton Vale)

Here is another feasibility study made for an addition project for a seniors housing already containing about sixty bedrooms.

The goal would be to bring the building to close to 130 apartment units, in another words, to add close to 40 bedrooms and close to 30 apartments. Such was the customer's demand.
 

 
It is what the drawings from our study demonstrate:
In one hand, the building as existing, in the other hand, the building with its addition and modifications.
 

 
The addition is planned according to a repetitive modular frame, what would allow the construction of the body of the building from pre-fabricated modules.
Otherwise it also can be done with conventional construction. The attentive exam of the alignment of the double interior walls on both sides of the halls will be the first sign of this modular option.
 

 
Another important organizational characteristic aims the orientation of the windows and main patio doors of the new rooms and apartments:
According to an angle of 45 degrees in relation to the main plan of the outside walls.
 

 
Three, four reasons for that :

• To avoid to the openings aimed a face-to-face look and so to assure more liberty to the dwelling units of this strong rental density project, enclosed  in a relatively restricted site.

• To orient the most possible the main windows toward the sun.

• To make more private the balconies while separating them by these advanced triangles to the outside wall.

• To give more interior space to the living room and, by the angle, to facilitate the outside view. Indeed, seated in the armchair, the look can be by a lightly change of the angle, the television and the outside.