Q1 Fall 2009: Studio 683 – Portland Sustainability Center
Professor Don Genasci and Professor Hajo Neis
The next portion of the studio was to move on to designing the Oregon Sustainability Center. I had my site chosen, which was on the southern end of Montgomery Street. Taking elements from the urban design portion I wanted to somehow integrate the canopy into the building, having an urban element become a building element. Originally I wanted this to be emphasized in the north facade.
This turned out to be an exploration and that was all pretty much, as the idea didn’t seem to jive with reviews. The idea of the urban canopy didn’t mesh with this area, and the fact it didn’t need to work as a wayfinding device on this building. So continuing the urban canopy from other blocks, I came up with the idea that the building would overhang a portion of a pedestrian path, acting as a canopy so to speak.
