Denise Quimi Fonseca

Architect with 20+ years leading construction and real estate projects to completion — now focused on modernizing eldercare facilities for safety, ADA compliance, and efficiency.

Current Projects

Modernization Program for Eldercare Facilities

A structured program to upgrade assisted-living and long-term care facilities for safety, ADA accessibility, and operational efficiency. I combined my background in architecture, project management, and real estate into one method covering facility diagnostics, ADA-compliant redesign, construction oversight, and staff training workshops. The result is a repeatable approach aimed at measurably lowering fall risk and operating costs, beginning with facilities in South Florida.

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AI Fall-Risk Mapping for Care Facilities

A concept from my MS in AI coursework: a tool that would study a facility's floor plans and walkthrough photos and mark the zones most likely to cause falls — dim lighting, narrow corridors, missing grab bars. The plan is to label facility images, train an image-recognition model, and produce a colour-coded risk map per floor. No dataset or working prototype exists yet.

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ADA Compliance Assistant

A concept from my MS in AI coursework: a question-and-answer assistant that would check renovation plans against ADA and Older Americans Act requirements, by gathering the regulations into a searchable knowledge base connected to a language model. No knowledge base or working assistant exists yet.

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Education & Experience