River City Flooring
This project utilizes the natural design elements in various carpets to bring the outdoors into the space.
The materials are reminiscent of flowing rivers, burning embers, and pebbles on a river bed. Corridor carpeting guides the residents to their home base. The lounge flooring creates a cozy atmosphere for games and chats by the fire. The dining space offers a calming serenity.
Natural light is abundant throughout. Large windows allow the beauty of nature to surround the facility. All this is true, though the building is set in a populous area near Grand Rapids, MI.
Walking into this space does feel like a welcome home, which is exactly what seniors should feel as they enter. To us, this project suits the category of “most creative flooring design” in perhaps, a non traditional way. This space evokes feelings of warmth, home, and peace. The ability to see that vision and bring such a space to life is extremely creative.
Nancy Thiel, founder and principal of Thiel Architecture + Design, is a licensed architect and an interior designer. With 40+ years’ experience working with luminaries in the architecture world, including Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, and Rockwell Group, where she served as a studio leader, Thiel’s extensive portfolio includes single-family homes and multi-story residences, hotels, restaurants, retail, fitness clubs, offices, theaters, schools and shopping centers. She is a member of the AIA, holds NCARB certification and is a LEED accredited professional. Prior to her career in architecture, Thiel was a dancer and choreographer.
Thiel Architecture + Design is an award-winning multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design, planning, and product design firm with offices in CT and NY. The firm’s work focuses on high-end residential design as well as hospitality, contract, and retail projects. Thiel Architecture + Design’s work has been featured in Interior Design, Architype, New York and Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Connecticut Magazine, Archello, and Fast Company magazines. In 2022, the firm received a Connecticut AIA Excellence award for Interior Architecture. Thiel earned a BA from Penn State University and her Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University.
