*Due to incliment weather, we will hold this panel discussion on zoom @12:30: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89256279090 Meeting ID: 892 5627 9090
Join us this Friday at 12:30 for a round table discussion on housing design! 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 co-housing projects designed by Portland architects. We will be joined by Kim Olson from Mahlum, Dustin Furseth from Holst, and Keith Alnwick from Waechter Architecture to hear about the specific design processes and strategies for housing types centering on community and sharing space. The brief presentations by each architect will be followed by a discussion about the particular approaches to co-housing models addressing the complexities between individual needs, cultural desires, and societal challenges embedded in the design process. We will discuss the co-housing projects’ scale, density, and affordability as a framework for transformational ways to envision sustainable urban living.
Our panel: Dustin Furseth from Holst, Keith Alnwick from Waechter, and Kim Olson from Mahlum. 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.