Auburn, WA

Auburn Enhanced Service Facility, “Parks Place”

Markets
Services
Features
Residential Behavioral Health Facility Site Design
Biophilic and Nature‑Inspired Landscape Design
Secure Interior Courtyard Planning
Native Planting and Irrigation Design
Outdoor Amenity Integration
Permitting and Agency Coordination
Healing‑Centered Design for a Residential Behavioral Health Facility

The Auburn Enhanced Services Facility (Parks Place) is a new 10,500 SF, 16-bed residential behavioral health facility designed to provide intensive, long-term support for individuals with complex mental health needs. AHBL delivered civil engineering and landscape architecture services for this biophilic, nature-inspired project centered around a secure interior courtyard that serves as the heart of daily life. Anchored by an outdoor fireplace and shaped by boulders, reclaimed logs, native plantings, and a winding concrete “river,” the courtyard brings the forms of the interior architecture into the landscape while offering residents meaningful connections to nature. Light-filled communal spaces and thoughtfully designed outdoor environments create a calming, non-institutional setting that strengthens South King County’s behavioral health continuum and supports resident well-being.

 

Photos: Image Marketing Studio

Teaming Partners

  • Architect: KMD Architects
Back To Portfolio

Related Projects

  • Avamere Bel Air Skilled Nursing Facility

    Single-story skilled nursing facility with grading, utilities, stormwater, and frontage improvements

  • Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital

    Supporting a new behavioral health hospital with thoughtful site design and infrastructure planning

  • Pendleton Place

    Kitsap County's first permanent supportive housing

  • Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital

    New state-of-the-art facility will be the only Level II pediatric trauma center in western Washington