Wescott, located between Blue Ridge Mountains and Atlanta, Georgia, blends a luxurious life with local inspired look and feel for active adult residents.
Designed by Forley Design and Associates, it is managed by Meridian Group, an active adult community of 120 units in Canton, Georgia, and mesh with a local downtown area to provide unique opinions and experiences to residents. The community is a concrete celebration of Canton’s heritage, a decorated historic art wall that emphasizes the past of coal mining, textile factories, and history.
Meridian, which develops and built a community, is a long -standing Canton business that helps Wescott into a surrounding area. The interior designer interior studio focuses on being tied to the community around the local area, and the entire building is seamlessly connecting outdoor elements.
WESCOTT’s design has won the top spots in the 2024 Senior Housing News and the Design Award for the active adult category, combined with how it is integrated into the regional community.
concept
Folly -designed project planners tried to create a “welcome and sophisticated” atmosphere using various textures, finishes, and colors.
The community is located in a commercial corridor with “the impact of a limited number of designs in housing buildings”, but there are many brick -made cruding used in surrounding buildings and a lot of modern and modern and transitioned details. did.
Foreie Design and Team have also been inspired by other high -end housing communities, including Village Park Alpha Retta in Alpha Retta, Georgia. El of the backhead of Atlanta, Georgia. Lagrangula Gouju Apartment in Lagrange, Illinois.
For the interior, the goal was to create a “similar historic town atmosphere” with the colors, finishes and materials found in the surrounding communities, including dark colors and stones.
It was extended to interior design. For example, the photos included in the community design document show teal chairs on fireplaces, orange accent walls, and spacious leather sofas.
The designer also used metal for lighting and furniture. The community space includes a professional hospitality kitchen with stainless steel counter, asymmetric bookshelf, tiled frameless shower, private patio, and decorative wall panels for each unit.
The main area of the community is designed to welcome everyone entering. In order to achieve this, the designer has a reception desk like a hotel, a porcelain tile floor similar to Terazo, a hanging baffle system and a modern historic photo. Focused on creating a spacious lounge area with In addition, residents can use the adjacent pet spa and a 24 -hour email room all year round.
Designers also tried to respond to active inhabitants who are still participating in many activities and hobbies. The project planner is to appeal to the audience who wants to collect, connection (and), a project planner that incorporates a full kitchen with a resort -style pool, a beer tap system, and a shower toilets. Other design elements that help create more active communities include unique touches such as “stylish” furniture, shuffle board tables, TV, family -style dining space, accent carpets and rich natural windows. 。
They also designed a fitness center with state -of -the -art devices to support the goals of residents and encourage lively and healthy lifestyles. The center itself is designed to give energy with bold paint colors and impressive graphics. The community is also near a park with a kayak and a waterfront for sightseeing.
In the community space, there is a sky lounge with a rooftop patio overlooking the pool and the courtyard, and a kitchen with a beer tap system and a dining table for community building. The lounge is all along with the Blue Ridge landscape, the historic canton water tower, the bold colors, stylish patterns and silhouette scenery.
The project team designed four flours in a variety of communities, lively design, and helped residents find their way. Each unit also has accent colors and decorative lighting equipment. The community corridor has a variety of artwork themes, and the project team uses the same carpet tiles on all floors, each with a different accent color, and a customized atmosphere throughout the building.
structure
Wescott is officially completed on January 1, 2023 and consists of a total of 167,863 square feet over the 4th floor.
This project is Meridian Development & Constration Services and Inc. It was built by.
The total amount of the project was not provided to the community submission information.
completion
Currently, the project planner operated openly believes that WESCOTT is a proof of innovative architectural design and seamlessly integrating luxury, convenience, and natural beauty. 。
“All details have been made with great care to strengthen their daily lives,” he said in the prize submission documents.
Community residents can interact in spaces such as card rooms, book clubs, cabana with resort -style pools, lounges with seats and decorations. The end design contains pet spa on the first floor for fellow residents.
The Jury for the Senior Housing News Design Award was particularly impressed with how the project planner distributed amenities to the entire community. Parkins’ Eastman Judges and Deputy Principal pointed out that the building and the Sky Lounge pointed out that they use incredible scenery and outdoor space.
The design and implementation manager of SitelogiQ RIC D’Amico and the Susumbers of the Susumbers said that they were particularly impressed how the community was away from a typical aged house with modern design. 。 He added the project team to “live young.”
