Projects

© Eric Staudenmaier

The community feel of MonteCedro is felt from the outset as residents and visitors approach the cul-de-sac entranceway, marked by a simple and elegant porte cochère that leads into the building’s hospitality-inspired lobby. As the property matures, trees and other plantings will provide additional shade to the area surrounding the main entrance.

© Eric Staudenmaier

MonteCedro’s architectural features such as terra-cotta roof tiles, arcades, private balconies, wood and iron detailing, and exposed support beams all come together to evoke elements of California Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival motifs. This style is reflective of the region and also offers a sense of comfort to new residents who have called Southern California home for many years.

© Eric Staudenmaier

Of MonteCedro’s 186 new independent living apartments, 54 are villas that surround the outdoor swimming pool and veranda. The campus’ new residences also include assisted living/memory care support and coordinated in-home care.

© Eric Staudenmaier

MonteCedro offers a host of common activity spaces and landscaped courtyards that take full advantage of the surrounding views. In making the MonteCedro campus feel more like an interconnected residential community rather than a village of retirement homes, there’s greater opportunity for interacting with one’s neighbors and continued life enrichment.

© Eric Staudenmaier

MonteCedro provides a continuum of care for residents of varying ages (65+), care needs, and expectations of lifestyle, all with an emphasis on giving residents choices in dining, leisure, fitness, and all the elements that make up the day.

© Eric Staudenmaier

Residents’ ability (and opportunities) to remain active and social are key, and is encouraged through an open and carefully considered design. This outdoor dining area, for example, acts as a hybrid space, doubling as a lounge, game area or other use. The partially enclosed seating area, with archways leading out to an uncovered courtyard, also provide a gradual transition between indoor and outdoor areas.

© Eric Staudenmaier

MonteCedro offers three different dining options for residents: the Station 8 Bar & Lounge; fine dining at Marcell’s Restaurant; and the largest of the three, Off Lake Bistro, the campus’ casual dining room. Gone are the days of cafeteria-like dining at set times throughout the day. In keeping with the idea of planning and choice, residents may dine wherever and whenever they like.

© Eric Staudenmaier

Episcopal Communities and Services consulted many residents throughout the years and were met with the consensus: "We want to live in our own homes, and if we need care and services, we would like those brought to us." MonteCedro’s memory care homes respond to that need with carefully laid out floor plans, and communal spaces for dining and living that don’t overwhelm the senses.

© Sarah Mechling/Perkins Eastman

MonteCedro’s creative arts studio is an essential element to the community center environment that the owner set out to offer. The facility’s first floor communal area is quite expansive and integrated to the resident experience. Smaller adjacent community areas, such as the art room, are carefully crafted and placed throughout the building, which better enables residents to socialize and engage with one another on a daily basis.

© Sarah Mechling/Perkins Eastman

Perkins Eastman’s senior living design team focused on a cultural emphasis where choice means more options for residents, and to providers this means designing facilities that are self-sustaining. So when it comes to pampering oneself with a fine dining experience or day at the spa, those options are just steps away from one’s front door.

© Sarah Mechling/Perkins Eastman

With a greater emphasis on home and hospitality, private residences now must accommodate those residents who enjoy cooking and entertaining and would regularly like the option to do so with their families and neighbors.