In graduate school my comprehensive design studio undertook the creation of a prototyping facility for an electric car manufacturer on the East Side of Portland, Oregon located on Burnside Street.
At the beginning of the project we were given 6 sites to choose from along the new Burnside/Couch couplet, our task was to identify the site, in response to zoning, and code requirements, that best fit our personal goals for the DCEC (Design Center for the Electric Car). Fascinated by the pattern of day/night use located next to existing retailers and restaurateurs I chose a partially empty site neighboring the historic arcades of Burnside street and the popular Bossanova concert venue. In order to speak to the language of the arcades, no longer permissible by building code, I chose to gray the line between site boundary and utilize building cantilevers to infer enclosure along the streetscape as well as identify group spaces of the design studios.
This work sample comprises various elements of the final document compilation, and identifies components of this unique design scheme.