Portland Artist & Artisan Plaza. Where community and creativity comes to live.
Let me walk you through the project PAAP, this is what you would see when you arrive with the new Orange line, from here, you see the Community Hub building, and now we enter from the south into the Grand Market Hall, where market activity happens. This is the main entrance for Community Hub and the crossing bridge above connecting two buildings. Now walk to the west toward Willamette river by going through the corridor, giving you the impression of opening up to the nature and wild. Here, is the Artist and Artisan Plaza where can be used for public gathering and extension of the Market space. During the day with less tourist traffic, it can also be use as outdoor maker space. This is the north bioswale, where we used diversities of plantation to clean the water while attracting wild habitat. Now we get a closer look to the water stair leading to the north pedestrian street. And now you see the north entrance, the axial is aligned with the future proposal of OMSI and PAAP extension. Now we see the East side of the building, which is where the storm water system surfaces from the Northern neighborhood. Now we walk around the building, you can see the Green House located on the top floor of the Community Hub. Then this is the south Bioswale, where the water mostly came from the OMSI district.
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This is the Project Portland Artist & Artisan Plaza, where all the creativity happens. The project PAAP is to focus on revitalizing OMSI, making it a rich and lively district that invites families and community together. The goal is not only to make it pedestrian friendly, but as an incubator for local artist and an attraction for the tourist around the world. We want to make it a hub for all the Portland made, where local makers actually have a place to call home, from the making, to promoting, to selling. Moreover, due to the sensitivity of the site located right in between the train yard and Willamette River, the site is essential to preserve wild life and to create diversity of local eco system.
The design of PAAP is to consider the making and the growth of future maker, while promoting the grass root management. Where it is truly managed by the people and used by the people. With that in mind, the building is considered as East Building where is the community Hub and the West building where is Maker’s Hub. On the North part of first and second floor are for makers and the south is a market place where local makers get to sell their items. On the third floor, where a Maker Tech Research facility is locate to study future technology and how those technology can help the process of creative making. The fourth floor, where everyone of you would probably want to pay a visit when its done, is the Sky Lounge where it look out to South Waterfront and Downtown Portland through Willamette River. The east building are for the managing, where community gathers and decide how they should develop the district at the same time providing consultation for young professionals. The restaurant on the first floor provides more options for local while promoting the friendlier street front. The second floor, where I would like to call it, is the incubator of the empire, which is a demonstration kitchen to help training our new business owners into the Food Car industry. Third floor is where the Grass Root management happens when the community gathers to manage their resource while keeping it open for people who needs it. The fourth floor, where the community comes together, is a community roof garden. The product can be used for the demonstration kitchen, or be used at your home, prepared your way.