Oregon Health and Science University: A foundation to build upon. “Envisioning a multifunctional urban campus oriented around pedestrian experience and context connections

This is a final comprehensive project for the BLA program, focusing on the design of a medical school campus. The design explores the campus from an urban scale down to detailed focus areas where elements are explored at a fine grain. The methods used break down the design into simple diagrams and build it up to a more complex level of understanding. The project looks at the design from multiple lenses and approaches. The result is a comprehensive look at how a campus is designed and presented in a way for people to understand the design intent. This project is successful in that it has a significant amount of resolution in the time frame of the project. OHSU is a critical part of Portland’s South Waterfront district and this design communicates how the city can benefit from this design as a model for how urban spaces can function.