DIGroup Architecture has been redesigning the Jewish Community Housing Corp.’s Lester Senior Living community in Whippany, NJ, with an eye toward the desires of the next generation of residents.
The campus provides independent living, assisted living and memory care as well as respite stay services.
“These renovations and their accompanying visuals have also led to fresh, modern marketing content that mirrors the vibrancy of all JCHC and Lester Senior Living have to offset,” said Vince Myers, principal-in-charge of DIG’s Senior Living Studio and co-founder/president of DIG, a certified MBE/DBE/SBE firm. “While the renovations breathe new life into the 30-year-old Heller Independent and Weston Assisted Living for current residents, they also draw the interest of future residents.”
For starters, the first floor is designed to be a “more interactive” communal space for residents to socialize, with convenient access to the café/reading room and refurbished dining room. And the atrium includes a floor-to-ceiling screen, and chalkboard imagery in the atrium and cinema also were conceived and created by DIG’s Graphics Design Studio.
The second floor houses the movie theater, with tiered seating and surround sound, a marquee and concession area.
Earlier this year, DIG was recognized for its work at Lester Senior Living as the top nonprofit project in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
“Each senior living assignment requires us to anticipate the complex needs of the current and future generations of aging adults,” Myers said. “In this spirit, each space is shaped and designed with a dual purpose: to offer sustainability while serving an ever-aging population’s highly unique multi-tiered physical, social and cognitive needs.”
