Case Study: Studio A Architecture achieves efficient, resort-style senior living designs with Autodesk (AutoCAD & Architecture toolset)

Firm Designs Resort Experience for Independent and Assisted Living

Studio A Architecture was tasked with designing Legacy Reserve, a three‑story, 140,000‑square‑foot independent and assisted‑living community in Lexington, Kentucky that combines 116 independent units, 52 assisted‑living units and 16 memory‑care rooms with resort‑style amenities (indoor pool, fitness center, restaurant, theater and an interior “Main Street” promenade). To meet strict safety and quality‑of‑life requirements while managing a complex, multifaceted program, the firm relied on Autodesk products—primarily AutoCAD and the Architecture toolset (with growing use of Revit).

Using Autodesk AutoCAD and the Architecture toolset, Studio A implemented workflow optimizations—making units and the roof xrefs, centralizing wall/store/section tags, using sheet sets, and leveraging dynamic block visibility states to swap window and component types instantly. These practices improved file performance, sped design iterations, reduced errors, and made global updates far more efficient, enabling the team to deliver the complex Legacy Reserve design more quickly and reliably; Studio A cites measurable improvements in speed and error reduction directly attributed to Autodesk tools.

Studio A Architecture

Vadim Kaplan

Principal