The goal of the project is to increase public recreational access and convention space in Rhea County. The project will provide additional lodging for the increasingly popular bass-fishing tournaments being held in nearby Dayton, and moreover provide meeting facilities for businesses and other convention groups in the region. Conducting detailed preliminary site analysis and incorporating […]
Discipline: Architecture
Continuing Passive Heating with Sustainable Cities
The City of La Pine partnered with the University of Oregon’s Architecture and Environmental Science Departments through the Sustainable City Year Program to develop implementation strategies for passive heating and environmentally conscious design. The City asked students to focus on ideas for a City Center, Balcony Sunspaces and a Community Greenhouse. Seven student teams explored […]
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Passive Heating Building Analysis
The City of Albany looked to University of Oregon architecture students to gather climate and microclimate information for Monteith Park and use it to quantify local heating needs and monthly net solar heating resources. Student teams developed passive solar designs for park restrooms, a sunspace off the current senior center, and a greenhouse, incorporating spatial, […]
Bus Shelter Planning and Design
Students will research and provide planning information to inform design criteria for bus shelters as well as strategies for paying for the shelters in accordance to the updated transit plan developed by the Cleveland Urban Area Transit System. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Smart Communities Initiative Contact Info University […]
Muncy Borough Retrofit Design
Students will explore resiliency design solutions for a site in Muncy Borough. This will include the partical renovation, retrofit, and adaptive reuse of two historic structures, and opera house, and a theatre. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable Communities Collaborative Contact Info University Faculty Contact Denson Groenendaal Architecture Instructor […]
Salem Police Station
Students developed 24 design ideas for the new Salem Police Station. While there were a variety of approaches to developing the new station, every design addressed issues involving the Civic Center site and the police program, including connectivity within the site and to Salem as a whole; creating a “front door” for the site; developing […]
Southeast Tennessee Regional Greenway Plan
In this course, students will develop a vision plan for a greenway and trail system to connect destinations in the greater Chattanooga region. The first step is to complete an inventory of existing and planned greenways, trails – plus natural areas, recreation parks and other potential greenway destinations. Once an inventory is complete, potential routes […]
High Preformance, High Density, High Ambitions: Housing for the Salem Housing Athority
In collaboration with Peter Keyes’s 2011 Advanced Architectural Design Studio at the University of Oregon and the Sustainable Cities Initiative, the City of Salem and the Salem Housing Authority (SHA) sought to re-imagine the future of public housing so that it would dignify those who inhabit it and do so in a more economically, environmentally, […]
A Front Porch for Marquam Hill and Oregon Health & Science University
During winter and spring terms 2018, graduate and undergraduate students in Professor Brook Muller’s terminal studio completed analytical research and urban design proposals for the Marquam Hill site. The urban design schemes encompassed a larger expanse – an east-west transect of southwest Portland that included the Willamette River, South Waterfront, Lair Hill, Barbur Boulevard (“the […]
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North Downtown Waterfront Development: Urban Design Proposals
During the fall 2010 academic term at the University of Oregon, five groups of three students in an architecture studio course worked with the City of Salem to develop five schemes for the redevelopment of the North Downtown Waterfront. The students investigated existing site conditions and a variety of factors influencing development of this particular […]
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