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Making South Downtown Portland, Artur Queiroz, Beth Gilden, Flávia Martins, Hannah Six, John Todoroff, Linn Davis, Maria Schafaschek, Nely Silveira, Sayonara Batista, Taissa Sanccao
Making South Downtown Portland, Artur Queiroz, Beth Gilden, Flávia Martins, Hannah Six, John Todoroff, Linn Davis, Maria Schafaschek, Nely Silveira, Sayonara Batista, Taissa Sanccao
Urban Design Workshop
Principals that guided the project:
(1) Create connection between existing activity centers.
- Education: Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and Portland State University
- Parks: Halpern Sequence, Park Blocks, and Waterfront
- Transit centers: Orange Line, Yellow Line, Streetcar and Bus Connection
(2) Add to multi-use nature of area to provide a 24 hr neighborhood environment. Additional residential Development - catering to late night and residence not just office crowd.
(3) Improve pedestrian experience: Increase safety by making traffic changes, add wayfinding and dampen freeway noise.
(4) Design for a diversity of ages
(5) Activate existing/underutilized "dead" …