Join us this Friday at 4:00 for a round table discussion on Higher Density and Co-Housing Policy! This lecture is part of our special BOLIGLABORATORIUM housing exhibit; for more info, check out our Housing Lab page.
How do we envision the future of housing in Portland and the Pacific Northwest? The current exhibition by Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab at PSU’s School of Architecture offers a basis to investigate housing models responsive to imminent urban challenges, diverse ways of living, and climate-conscious lifestyles. We invite you to join our panel discussions focusing on designs for new housing types, exploring the existing diversity of families and households, community-oriented projects, sustainable approaches for urban density, and policies promoting affordable and vibrant neighborhood developments.
This Friday, we delve into the discussion of the framework conditions for co-housing projects. We will be joined by city planner Bill Cunningham from BPS, Christina Bollo from the University of Oregon, Eli Spevak from Orange Splot, and Jonathan Bolch from Woofter Bolch Architecture to hear about variations on the concept of co-housing and possibilities of generating similar housing types that integrate sustainable community building aspects. The presentations of both planning and research conceptions associated with co-housing and urban clusters will lead into a discussion about urban settings, policies, and incentives for integrating programmatic elements to housing types, supporting affordable neighborhood developments with community-oriented concepts, and integrating initiatives for transformational urban density in an appropriate scale for Portland.
Our panel: Bill Cunningham from BPS, Christina Bollo from the UO School of Architecture and Environment, Jonathan Bolch from Woofter Bolch Architecture, and Eli Spevak from Orange Splot. Moderated by our PSU Architecture faculty member Anna Weichsel.
What is Friday@1?
On most Fridays at 1 p.m. during the academic term, PSU School of Architecture students and faculty gather to hear from professional designers and architects, academics, visiting artists, innovators, and students in the program. Friday@1 is a perfect way to wrap up each week of intense creativity in the studio and get inspired for the productive weekend ahead.
Free and Open to the public. All are welcome.