Taking inspiration from traditional dwellings made of stucco and adobe, Ativo Senior Living embraces the exterior expression of Southwestern Pueblo architecture to blend into the landscape of Albuquerque, New Mexico, establishing a warm, homey, and inviting senior living community that offers Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care accommodations to its residents. Thick walls and deep angled window jambs provide insulation from the high desert climate, retaining both heat and cool air during temperature swings, and maximizing the amount of sunlight let indoors during the winter months. Features like vigas, curved parapets, and canales along the flat roof add regional flourishes and facilitate drainage, while latilla trellises provide shady respites along the side of the structure. Patio doors along exterior decks are painted teal as a cultural symbol representing warmth, welcome, and hospitality. In the courtyard, amenities like gardening boxes, a putting green, bocce ball court, and dog area provide residents with outdoor entertainment, while indoor programming considerations include an exercise room, theatre, Bistro, demo kitchen, and a dining area with a back patio that faces East, towards the Sandia Mountains. A third-floor club room and bar area boasts an indoor-outdoor amenity deck with impressive views of radiant, sky-changing sunsets that extend into the neighboring Petroglyph National Monument, located just behind the building. At certain times of the year, hot air balloons from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta can be seen floating overhead. Within the interior lobby, the rustic Southwestern charm continues through smaller details like the curved doorways, focal point fireplace, lit wood beams along the ceiling, and the Talavera-inspired tiles adorning the stairway risers. Embracing connections to and integrating with the pocket park and residential neighborhood it backs up against, as well as the surrounding natural landscape, Ativo Senior Living provides care and creates a community that is uniquely tied to the spirit of the Southwest.