SE CLAY STREET

SE MARKET STREET

SE MILL STREET

SE W

ATER A

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SE 2nd A

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RA

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SE HAWTHORNE BLVD

WIL

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METTE R

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Science education resource centerMARIAH MARSHALL - TERMINAL STUDIO - WINTER II - INSTRUCTORS NANCY CHENG & SUENN HO

2ND FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

BUILDING PLANS 1” = 30’

CURRENT URBAN CONDITIONS INFUSED WITH GREEN STREETS RECONNECTS EAST SIDE TO RIVER

SITE MODEL DIAGRAM

3RD FLOOR

URBAN STRATEGY

SITE QUALITIES

ACTIVE

QUIET

Project Description This thesis project aims to discover the possibili-ties of a riverfront lot at the corner of SE Water Avenue and SE Clay Street in Portland’s east side industrial district directly north of the OMSI Campus. The site’s dominating characteristic are monolithic columns punctuating the ground plane and soaring roadways framing the sky. The program I have select-ed for this site has the potential to bring people of all ages every day of the week to a site that once lent its views to cars only. The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) is an existing program within OMSI’s educational programming. It serves k-12 public, private and home school educators. The current facility is only one room but contains the type of materials and resources that could be expanded into their ownunique facilities. This new SERC will be a dedicated facility for educators in need of professional devel-opment courses to home school students and their parents wanting to check out a kit of scientific tools to do at home experiments. The site also culminates the re-design of SE Clay street and the massing of the buildings are oriented to direct the visitor to the river visually and physically.

A science and research oriented facility grants an opportunity to dedicate the landscape to didactic uses: providing testing grounds for water treatment, a living machine and a variety of other uses that could directly educate the public and create a more beautiful environment beneath a structure that is not traditionally viewed as habitable.

CURRENT SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTERONE SMALL ROOM WITH A MULTITUDE OF FUNCTIONS

LIBRARY NASA RESOURCE COLLECTIONVIDEO CONFERENCE FACILITYHOLDS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMSCOMPUTER STATION FOR ONLINE RESEARCHPRINT CENTERCURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT RESOURCESGENERAL CONFERENCE ROOM FOR ALL OMSI STAFFONE VOLUNTEER EDUCATOR OPENS SERC ONCE A WEEK

SUPPLAMENTAL SPACES WITHIN OMSI

CLASSROOMLABSAUDITORIUM

SITE PLAN 1”=25’N

large demonstration space

lab lab lablab

mech.

lunch room

lobby

main library stacks

check-out

digital workstations

library support & offices

study rooms

access to esplanade

lecture hall lobby

main circulation

lecture hall

classroom classroom classroomclassroom

restrooms

seminar room

officesterrace

link

library

restrooms

restroomsaccess to esplanade

MATERIALS

inspiration

NL Architects - A8ernA Zaanstad, Netherlands

Creative Arts Center - Brown UniversityDiller Scofidio + Renfro

Sabanci University Nanotechnology LabIstanbul, Turkey - Cannon Design

Views between program elementsHabitable space beneath highways Light filled work spaces

FORM CAST “GLASS” LIGHT EDGE CAST GLASS WALL

View from Water Avenue SE View from Willamette River

EAST WEST SECTION THROUGH LAB & CLASSROOM BUILDING1”=20’

EAST WEST SECTION THROUGH AUDITORIUM & LIBRARY 1”=20’

ENVIRONMENT

WINTER SOLSTICE SHADOW STUDY SUMMER SOLSTICE SHADOW STUDY

8:00 AM

NOON

4:00 PM

8:00 AM

NOON

4:00 PM

Detail: Approaching from East Side Esplanade

Detail: Link between North & South Building

North Elevation