Ingleside at King Farm, a Senior Living Retirement Community in Rockville, MD, recently worked with Perkins Eastman to expand their community and reposition their amenity spaces towards a new generation of residents. After embarking on a master planning exercise to create a roadmap for future growth, including a multi-phased expansion of its residences, Ingleside was challenged to seamlessly integrate the new with the old while making sure to not compromise on the services available to their existing residents.

The key goals of the master plan included expanded dining venues, as well as building a new Center for Healthy Living, innovative memory support, and rehabilitation centres catering to the Ingleside residents’ 120 new independent living apartments, and the surrounding community. These phases included approximately 41,800 square metres of renovation and expansion for the campus.

The master plan and new buildings were inspired by the original Ingleside building’s French-mansard roof, which faces the boulevard. The new planning and architecture draws on this aesthetic to reference lively and eclectic Paris side streetscapes for the cross streets with a dynamic collection of modern (as in the new Independent Living spaces) and more intimately-scaled and historic-inspired spaces such as those for memory care and day care.