Portland is struggling with the consequences of its success. Rising housing costs are forcing our underprivileged and under-serviced residents to relocate to more affordable parts of the metro area, with a significant portion to “East County” - Rockwood, Gresham and other communities east of the city boundaries.
This project will take two building types that are essential for successful communities - affordable housing and libraries - and plan a hub site in East County to spark future investment in healthy urban development. The project aims to develop a holistic campus that anticipates what the future holds for these building types in our rapidly evolving modern society.
As this project aims to take on two building types; at the beginning of this year long process, I decided to team up with hopes to be able to tackle this giant project successfully. We felt that this project deserved more and that in order to be able to fully develop the site and successfully execute our holistic campus vision, it would be more strategic to each focus on one specific building type and work together with site development and concepts.
The site development was done as a team, the library was done by myself and the housing was done by my partner.
Below you will find a digital copy of a booklet made for my final presentation, with the goal of telling our story in a more evocative and tangible form.
