This project utilizes the natural design elements in various carpets to bring the outdoors into the space.
The materials are reminiscent of flowing rivers, burning embers, and pebbles on a river bed. Corridor carpeting guides the residents to their home base. The lounge flooring creates a cozy atmosphere for games and chats by the fire. The dining space offers a calming serenity.
Natural light is abundant throughout. Large windows allow the beauty of nature to surround the facility. All this is true, though the building is set in a populous area near Grand Rapids, MI.
Walking into this space does feel like a welcome home, which is exactly what seniors should feel as they enter. To us, this project suits the category of “most creative flooring design” in perhaps, a non traditional way. This space evokes feelings of warmth, home, and peace. The ability to see that vision and bring such a space to life is extremely creative.
Nancy Thiel, founder and principal of Thiel Architecture + Design, is a licensed architect and an interior designer. With 40+ years’ experience working with luminaries in the architecture world, including Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, and Rockwell Group, where she served as a studio leader, Thiel’s extensive portfolio includes single-family homes and multi-story residences, hotels, restaurants, retail, fitness clubs, offices, theaters, schools and shopping centers. She is a member of the AIA, holds NCARB certification and is a LEED accredited professional. Prior to her career in architecture, Thiel was a dancer and choreographer.
Thiel Architecture + Design is an award-winning multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design, planning, and product design firm with offices in CT and NY. The firm’s work focuses on high-end residential design as well as hospitality, contract, and retail projects. Thiel Architecture + Design’s work has been featured in Interior Design, Architype, New York and Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Connecticut Magazine, Archello, and Fast Company magazines. In 2022, the firm received a Connecticut AIA Excellence award for Interior Architecture. Thiel earned a BA from Penn State University and her Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University.
