NewBridge on the Charles brings multiple generations
together, creates an optimal living environment for elders at all points of the
aging continuum, provides a rich array of choices for older adults in the form
of housing options, lifestyles, engaging activity, and dining venues, and
preserves a spectacular site.
This campus offers more than 1M sf of
sustainably designed, state-of-the-art residential care environments. Living
accommodations include 50 cottages, 24 villa apartments, 146 apartments, 51
traditional assisted living apartments, 40 memory support rooms, and a
268-resident healthcare center with 220 long term care residents and 48
sub-acute patients. The site also provides a setting for 450 students in the
Rashi School.
Simple, elemental, and connected forms combine with richly
colored and textured natural materials to respond to the local New England
vernacular and the natural setting. This simple, unpretentious vernacular was
easily reinterpreted with oversized and mulled windows providing increased
daylight and connections to the outdoors. With an extensive palette of natural
materials and naturally-occurring colors and patterns, a cohesive design
emerged that connects residents to the natural environment whether inside or
outdoors.
The site design protects environmentally sensitive areas,
controls stormwater, minimizes irrigation, maintains native landscape
materials, captures rainwater for irrigation, and integrates the Northeast’s
largest geothermal system to serve more than 1M sf of enclosed
conditioned space. This system utilizes 400 heat transfer wells with projected
gas savings of 50% and a 34% CO2 emissions reduction equating to about
18,000,000 lbs per year.
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