Architect: Messana O’Rorke Set across an expansive 80,000-square-foot site, this multifaceted development brings together a dental campus, residential buildings, and a richly programmed landscape into a cohesive, community-focused environment. The project is defined by an approach that prioritizes comfort, well-being, and openness—reimagining what a medical campus can feel like. The lighting design within the dental facilities deliberately departs from conventional clinical environments, with the exception of examination areas where precision and performance remain essential. Throughout waiting rooms and transitional spaces—where stress is often heightened—lighting is carefully calibrated to create a calming, restorative atmosphere. Through subtle, low-glare illumination and balanced light levels, the design works quietly and psychologically to ease anxiety without calling attention to itself. Even within the examination rooms, where challenging ceiling conditions exist, thoughtfully selected low-glare fixtures deliver the required illumination while maintaining visual comfort. Beyond the buildings, the landscape plays a central role in shaping the identity of the site. Landscape lighting enhances safety after dark while introducing a magical, low-level glow that invites residents, patients, and the surrounding community to linger. The result is a welcoming public realm—one that draws people in, encourages connection, and transforms the campus into a place of comfort, care, and shared experience.