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Physical Plant

B. Additions and Renovations Required for Operations and Program

Dining Room

It is believed that “first impressions” are an important aspect of marketing the services provided by Montgomery Meadows. The lobby/main entrance and dining room areas were consistently mentioned as requiring this aesthetic improvement.

There are two existing physical conditions that detrimentally affect the aesthetic values of these two areas. The one is the set of three double utility doors at one end of the dining room. See the following photo.

The other problem is that the kitchen/dish room corridor connects directly to the main corridor opposite the lobby, where kitchen noises and odors can be heard and smelled. See the following photo.



This problem is also evident in the following section from the original architectural plan.



We have made a sketch of a suggested way of correcting both of these detrimental aesthetic problems.

In this sketch, we have closed off the kitchen/dish room corridor from the main corridor opposite the lobby and constructed a new corridor through the end of the dining room in front of the utility doors. This new corridor connects to another existing corridor, which ties into all resident wings.

During the visit of the Montgomery Meadow’s management team to Green Manor Health Facilities they noted the vaulted ceilings, cove lighting and chandeliers in the dining rooms, and indicated that they would like to incorporate similar features into their renovated dining room. The larger boxed out areas in the sketch are the vaulted ceilings and the smaller squares are the skylights.

The following photo is of the Green Manor Adult Home’s dining room.



In the following photo of Green Manor Nursing Home’s dining room we see a different version of vaulted ceilings and chandeliers. There is no cove lighting, and the sides of the vaulted ceiling are paneled with wood. The top of the vault has a suspended ceiling instead of the plastered ceiling in the Adult Home.

The preference was for the wood paneled vaulted ceiling with cove lighting, suspended ceilings instead of the plastered ceilings, and chandeliers.

In the following close-up photo the paneled vault and suspended ceiling are more evident. At Montgomery Meadows we were considering a more decorative suspended ceiling.

The Montgomery Meadows dining room has 12 skylights, which we have incorporated into the vaulted ceilings. See the previous architectural plan, sketch and the photo of Montgomery Meadow’s dining room.

The above photo shows the plastic covers under the skylights, which also block much of the light. In the sketch, we envisioned the plastic covers being removed and the shaft-ways being painted white or mirrored to reflect the natural lighting downward into the dining room.

The exterior wall side of the dining room would be converted into a solarium. We envisioned having four-foot square planters under each of the two skylights in the vaulted ceiling closest to that end of the dining room.

The following photo is of the existing dining room looking toward the kitchen.

The proposed planters would be under the skylights with the vaulted ceiling around both skylights, with a chandelier between the two skylights. (See sketch) The interior window (to the diet office) would be closed.

In the following photo we are looking in the opposite direction toward the main resident corridor. The door to the corridor (far wall) would be closed up. This arrangement would lend itself to having two decorative sitting areas on either end of the dining room solarium with room for wheel chairs and other seating toward the center of the solarium. The pair of exterior doors would remain.

Should the nursing units be replaced, this dining room would become a combination dining and recreation room for the Adult Home.

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