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EFA DESIGN SHOWCASE
INDEPENDENT LIVING

Acts Retirement-Life Communities - Cokesbury Village HOCKESSIN, DEL.
Submitted by: RLPS Architects/RLPS Interiors LANCASTER, PA.
Project category: Project in progress
Chief administrator: Robyn Crandall, executive director
Firm: RLPS Architects/RLPS Interiors, www.rlps.com
Design team: RLPS Architects (architect and interior designer); Reese
Engineering Inc. (MEP/lighting engineer); Scopos Hospitality Group
(food service consultant); MacIntosh Engineering (structural engineer);
VanDemark & Lynch Inc. (civil engineer)
Number/type of housing units: 232 apartments
Total building area (sq. ft.): 93,974
Construction cost/sq. ft.: Not available
Total construction cost (excluding land): Not available
Completion: October 2019

After affiliating with Cokesbury
Village in 2010, Acts RetirementLife Communities needed to
update the community to better
reflect its brand and meet market
expectations. The first step for
reinventing the main building
housing the community center
and apartments was the addition
of a porte cochere and expanded
drop-off area. Next, we focused on
updating the façade, a straightforward concrete face associated with
the brutalist architectural style,

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popular in the 60s and 70s.
Removing sections of the
straight line of solid concrete balconies and replacing them with
thin aluminum railings expands
views and daylighting and softens
the building face. Wrapping the
building in a warmer, contemporary palette of glass, stone, stucco
and metal panels adds variety
while reducing the perceived
scale. The design maintains a
heavier masonry base that transitions to an expressive cornice for
a comfortable sense of hierarchy.
Interior renovations reorganize common spaces to locate
active areas, such as the café/
coffee shop at the front door. In
addition to a new hospitality desk
at the entrance, the re-energized
lobby design includes fireplaces,
water features, and a green
wall. The new vision for dining
includes a much larger casual
component, window walls to
take advantage of sweeping views
and terrace improvements, a
new clubroom, and private dining with sliding doors to allow
this space to become part of
the larger formal dining room
for special events. On the lower
level a multi-functional serving
kitchen/event space serves as a
flexible hospitality "backbone"
for meetings and events.



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