Ekos Pembroke Park
Contextual Senior Housing, Ground Up
Scale is a civic obligation. In Pembroke Park, where a mid-rise residential building risks overwhelming the grain of its surroundings, the envelope of Ekos Pembroke Park is calibrated to belong. Across 150 senior affordable units, every two floors are composed as a single facade element — compressing the building’s apparent height and returning its massing to a register consonant with the neighborhood around it. Horizontal banding and applied ornamental detailing articulate the facade plane, lending the building a residential texture that reinforces its contextual ambition.
Key info
Collaborators
Location
Pembroke Park
Type
Mixed-use
Status
In Progress
Year
completed
completed
Size
150 Units
Client
McDowell Housing Partners
Role
Design Architect
Concrete and glass are handled with restraint; the discipline of the section and the relief of the surface do the work together. A three-story parking structure is absorbed into the program without dominating the street presence, while 1,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space activates the edge, threading the development into the everyday economy of the block. Inside, a fitness center and social room extend life beyond the individual unit, giving residents shared territory within the building they inhabit. Ekos Pembroke Park demonstrates that affordability and contextual intelligence are not competing demands — that housing can meet a community at its own scale and still carry architectural conviction.