Connor Street
Residential

Each apartment entry door is a distinct color. Many adults with developmental or cognitive disabilities navigate spaces more naturally through visual association than written information. A resident's door color becomes their personal landmark, a familiar and comforting signal that they are home.

Residents identify their home confidently through color recognition, creating a calming and familiar sense of arrival each and every time.

Smooth, continuous ramps replace stairs throughout the building entry. For residents using wheelchairs, walkers, or mobility supports, a barrier-free entrance means independence from the very first moment of arrival.

The building is built to work for every resident today and as their needs evolve over time.

Simple, open living spaces with clear sightlines and easy circulation. Complex layouts and crowded environments increase cognitive load and stress. An open layout makes the home feel understandable, navigable, and safe for everyone in it.

Residents move through and inhabit their home confidently, free from sensory or cognitive overwhelm.

Natural wood tones, warm neutrals, and soft whites throughout. Bright colors, high contrast, and busy patterns are known to trigger sensory overload in many neurodivergent individuals. This palette creates a stable, soothing baseline the resident sets the energy of the room, not the other way around.

The home becomes a predictable, calming environment that supports emotional regulation at its most fundamental level.

Recessed lighting throughout with fully adjustable brightness. Bright for activity, soft for relaxing, dim for evening wind-down. Harsh lighting is a known stressor for neurodivergent individuals. Giving residents control over their lighting is giving them control over their sensory environment.

Residents have the power to actively shape their own sensory experience throughout the day.

Pull-out drawers replace traditional base cabinets throughout. Contents come forward and into full view, eliminating the need to bend, reach, or search in dark spaces. Better reach, better visibility, better organization residents can fully manage their own kitchen.

Residents retrieve cookware and utensils on their own, building daily living confidence and practical kitchen skills over time.

Extra-high upper cabinets above standard reach give support staff a designated, organized place to store cleaning products, sharp tools, and medications, while residents maintain full, easy access to their everyday kitchen items. Safety and accessibility work together by design.

Residents and support staff each have what they need, with the design thoughtfully accommodating both.

Stove controls are located on the back panel rather than the front. Front-mounted controls can be accidentally bumped or turned on. Rear placement eliminates accidental activation without removing the resident's ability to cook for themselves.

The kitchen becomes inherently safer by design, while residents retain full confidence and comfort in their own space.

Wide pathways and open circulation throughout. Clear movement paths reduce confusion about how to navigate the space, and comfortably accommodate wheelchair mobility and staff assistance when needed.

Residents experience the kitchen as organized, easy to navigate, and genuinely their own.

Each bedroom features large windows and simple, calm finishes. Natural light supports circadian rhythms, sleep quality, and mood regulation all of which are especially important for neurodivergent individuals. Every resident deserves a space to fully decompress, recharge, and feel at home on their own terms.

Each bedroom becomes a true personal retreat where residents can restore emotionally and rest fully.

Each resident has their own private bathroom completely separate from their roommate's. This preserves personal hygiene routines, sensory preferences, and the fundamental dignity of private personal care. Residents never have to coordinate, wait, or compromise on one of the most personal parts of their day.

Residents maintain complete autonomy over one of the most intimate parts of their daily routine.

A curbless, walk-in shower accommodates wheelchair access, shower chairs, and safe transfers. Traditional tubs and raised thresholds present genuine safety risks for individuals with mobility challenges. This design removes those barriers while keeping the space warm, beautiful, and genuinely home-like.

Residents are able to bathe more independently and safely, with their dignity fully intact.

Grab bars within the shower provide physical stability during movement and transitions placed at precisely the right positions to support entry, movement, and exit so that independence is maintained while fall risk is significantly reduced.

Residents can move safely and comfortably through their bathroom, with the environment providing support at every step.

Wide floor space around the toilet and shower accommodates mobility devices and allows for supported assistance when needed, all while keeping the space feeling warm, open, and welcoming.

Residents move and transfer safely at every step, with their dignity honored throughout.

Each apartment includes its own washer and dryer. Shared laundry facilities can be overwhelming sensory, logistically, and socially. In-unit laundry allows residents to practice and maintain this essential life skill in the privacy and comfort of their own home, on their own schedule, in a space that is familiar and fully their own.

Residents participate in an everyday routine that reinforces their independence and builds genuine self-confidence at home.