GTD Wins Healthcare Design Award in IIDA Design Awards 2025!
GTD Architects is proud to announce that our firm has been recognized with the 2025 IIDA Healthcare Design Award in the Extended Care & Assisted Living Facilities, Skilled Nursing category for its exceptional interior design in collaboration with Portland, Oregon architecture firm Scott Edwards Architecture LLP on Madrona Grove at Rose Villa in Portland, Oregon!
We loved working on this project and are ecstatic to have our design recognized by IIDA. Read below to learn more about the project and how our design principles addressed the needs of the community:
Madrona Grove is part of senior living community Rose Villa’s additions and improvements to its 22-acre campus. The design includes a skilled nursing facility and small-home model residential care facility where the interiors are inspired by ‘home,’ with groups of rooms seen as ‘households,’ with 32 private resident rooms total.
To reiterate the idea of ‘home,’ the interior design strived to make the spaces feel residential using restful but vibrant colors, comfortable furniture, residential-style lighting, and inviting common spaces. Both floors have access to outdoor spaces. The first-floor common living and dining spaces open onto an outdoor living room with a fireplace. Wayfinding and orientation were addressed with distinct colors and textures defining each household, reinforcing identity.
When addressing this project, the challenges that came with it, and the needs of the residents, we introduced a ‘small-house’ model to the community, providing a community-focused solution to the new addition to Rose Villa. In accordance with this model, the building was designed with home as the inspiration: groups of rooms will comprise their own ‘households’, two ‘households’ will comprise a neighborhood. Each of the two neighborhoods will have their own kitchen, dining, and living rooms for communal cooking, eating, and residing. Resident rooms will feature small kitchenettes, private bathrooms with walk-in shower, built-ins, and very generously sized windows and/or patios that allow residents to be wheeled out of doors in their beds to continue to enjoy nature and their natural connection to the outside.
By prioritizing interior architecture and design, Madrona Grove provides residents with ownership of their personal environments while nurturing collective life. The result is a healthcare interior that dissolves the boundaries between care and home with an uplifting model of dignity, equity, and wellness in supportive living.
