Education

Art Rutkin Elementary School

Location: Tigard, Oregon
Client: Tigard-Tualatin School District

  • The new Art Rutkin Elementary School for the Tigard-Tualatin School District involves the construction of a new 75,000 sq ft building consisting of classrooms, administration spaces, a library, a large volume single story gymnasium, cafeteria, and commons spaces.

    Art Rutkin was a beloved longtime principal in the Tigard-Tualatin School District, the elementary is pursuing Net Zero energy and will be the first new school in decades, serving 650 PK-5 students and the community.

    Image Source: Bora Architecture & Interiors

Green Hill School

Location: Chehalis, Washington
Client: McKinstry

  • The Green Hill School Recreation and Wellness Center will provide incarcerated male youth the opportunity to choose from a broad range of daily physical recreational activities, provide exposure to wellness activities and lifelong healthy habits of mindfulness, emotional regulation, moral reasoning, distress tolerance, and social skills. The new facility design also serves Green Hill School staff by providing opportunities for wellness, health, and decompression to mitigate the stressful corrections environment. The design for the facility and site improvements realizes these goals through a normative, elevated civic design expression that leverages the building as an educational tool with intuitive design that enables youth to make choices and teach themselves, while also showcasing marks of achievement through physical displays, scoreboards, team pride signage and elements.

    Image Source: DLR Group

OSU Withycombe Hall Renovation

Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Client: Bora Architects

  • The major renovation of historic Withycombe Hall will transform an outdated, aged building into a flexible, innovative teaching and research environment that serves OSU’s agricultural science programs of Animal & Rangeland Sciences and Food Science & Technology–key to the University’s identity as a Land Grant institution.

    Originally built in 1952 as a creamery and an animal research facility, Withycombe Hall will welcome a fully functioning Dairy Pilot Plant back into the building to support small-batch production and innovation in cheese and ice cream-making, while also adding a Wine Pilot Plant to further OSU’s enology education. As the home for Animal & Rangeland Sciences, the revitalized building will bring most of the program’s faculty, staff and research space together under one roof. A new shared Kitchen Lab will improve collaboration opportunities across both programs, while a public-facing Beaver Classic Store will serve as a business incubator allowing Agricultural Science & Technology departments to market and sell OSU-made agricultural products.

    When completed, Withycombe Hall will contain state-of-the-art spaces for research and teaching supporting the advancement of science in these vital agricultural disciplines. Along with serving as an educational tool for sustainability, the building will be designed through a lens of universal access to expand the range of educational opportunities and career possibilities for all Oregonians.

    Image Source: Bora Architects

PCC Sylvania Health and Technology

Location: Portland, Oregon
Client: Portland Community College

  • Project goals include upgrading and enhancing the existing spaces to create a welcoming environment that celebrates health and wellness and emphasizes connectivity between interior spaces and the campus beyond. Sustainability is a fundamental design and building criteria at PCC and this project will pursue LEED NC v4.1 certification.

    The building design will be informed by project sustainability workshops and building energy modeling, and will make use of energy incentives from the Energy Trust of Oregon.

    Image Source: Hacker Architects

Portland Metropolitan Workforce Training Center

Location: Portland, Oregon
Client: Portland Community College

  • Portland Metropolitan Workforce Training Center (PMWTC) is being redeveloped. A new two-story facility will be built with classrooms, offices, and meeting rooms for both PCC staff and community partners such as the Oregon Department of Human Services. The redeveloped facility will support the programmatic goals of this center. PMWTC will continue to offer the existing programs and will add to those following an opportunity center model. Additionally, PCC is introducing affordable housing on the property in partnership with Home Forward.

    Image Source: Bora Architects

Tigard-Tualatin SD Assessment

Location: Tigard/Tualatin, Oregon
Client: Tigard-Tualatin School District

  • Project consists of visiting each of the identified site locations and performing a visual assessment of the building enclosure components to document and report on the long term needs of the building enclosure related to maintenance, repair, and replacements.

UO Hamilton Walton Transformation

Location: Eugene, Oregon
Client: University of Oregon

  • The Hamilton Walton Transformation Project will unfold in three phases:

    -Unthank Hall (completed summer 2021) on Humpy Lumpy Lawn contains the Student Welcome Center, PNW Market, academic spaces, and residences for 700 students.

    -Construction of two new residence hall buildings: the New Residence Hall will contain academic spaces, a service center, a package locker delivery center, and residences for 705 students. The New Apartment-Style Residence Hall will contain four-person and single-occupant studio units for 400 students. 

    -Development of a new green space.

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UW Behavioral Health Teaching Facility

Location: Seattle, Washington
Client: Wilson Jones Commissioning

  • The new Behavioral Health Teaching Facility (BHTF) located on the University of Washington Medical Center Northwest Campus will be a one-of-a-kind fully integrated welcoming and healing environment for individuals struggling with serious physical and behavioral health problems. The building will support a full continuum of clinical services ranging from effective medication management and psychotherapies to state-of-the art neuromodulation treatments, medical and surgical care for individuals with medical and behavioral health disorders. The building will also become the home for an interdisciplinary training and workforce development program that is focused on preparing and supporting the next generation of behavioral health providers for Washington State.

    The design vision for the new building is to create a noninstitutional setting that promotes well-being, healing, and learning for patients, staff, visitors and trainees in a welcoming and safe environment.

    Image Source: SRG Partnership

Washington State School for the Deaf

Location: Vancouver, Washington
Client: Mithun

  • Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth Academic and Physical Education Building

    The new 48,000 sq ft academic building designed with DeafSpace standards for academics and physical education, includes a renovated parking lot and drop-off area and turf field for outdoor athletics.

    The building will serve all K-12 grades, with a covered walkway connecting a one-story gymnasium with a two-story academic facility. A “green spine” of landscaping elements will be added as a buffer between parking and transportation loading zones and school facilities.

    Design elements are incorporated and tailor-made for American Sign Language speakers such as widened hallways, rounded corners and hallway alcoves for the extra space necessary for one-on-one motion-based communication.

    Image Source: Mithun