Meals on Wheels - Selser Schaefer Architects

Meals on Wheels

Hardesty Service Center

Fueled by more than 1400 volunteers, Meals on Wheels provides nutritious meals, safety checks, and friendly, caring contact to elderly and disabled homebound individuals — helping them to maintain independence, dignity, and well-being. Delivering far more than just meals, their goal is to help create a community in which no one is left alone, hungry, or isolated due to illness, disability, or impediment to daily living.

Inspired by their daily acts of kindness and service, Selser Schaefer Architects is excited to collaborate with Meals on Wheels Metro Tulsa on the design of their new headquarters. The organization has two major goals for this renovation project:
(1) Increase daily meal production operations
(2) Promote community interaction

The resulting new facility will be a production, packaging, and distribution facility allowing the organization to increase its served meals capacity from 300,000 meals per year to 1,000,000.

Learn more about Meals on Wheels Metro Tulsa here.

Community Engagement

The development of the site and building will outwardly communicate the organization’s mission, brand, and services. Large graphics incorporated into the exterior of the building will increase brand recognition, raise community awareness and attract new partner organizations and volunteers, particularly younger generations.

The interior space plan will sector the functions of the new building into public, semi-public, and private zones with volunteer/event space to promote community engagement. This also allows views from the public lobby into the meal preparation kitchen, giving the community a glimpse into the heart of the facility.

The new headquarters will be a center where the community can come together to help ensure no person suffers from hunger, isolation, and depression due to neglect.