Sustainable City Year Reports 2009-10 (Gresham)

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    City of Gresham: Program for a New City Hall
    (University of Oregon, 2009) Holverstott, Brett; von Bargen, Jean E.
    As a programming class we were charged with developing a comprehensive program for a new Gresham City Hall building. We started initially researching the city of Gresham by examining past articles about the challenges the city has faced during its development. We found out the city has had problems with creating a sense of identity and sustaining a thriving downtown. After visiting the site of the existing city hall it was clear the new city hall needed a stronger community connection and presence and needed to create a new identity for itself. During an interview session with specific departments within city hall, we focused on understanding how the building is used and what each user group’s needs are. For each person, we were interested in themselves as part of a larger department, their department as part of the city hall, and city hall as part of the city of Gresham. We were also interested in how they used to do their job, how things are done currently, and how operations might change in the future. After touring the existing facilities and analyzing what we heard from the interviews through charts and diagrams, we determined the following: Gresham City Hall will serve as an identity for an emerging downtown while promoting community revitalization.
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    Gresham City Hall : Conceptual Designs Plans for a New City Hall
    (University of Oregon, 2010) Falkenstein, Lizzie; Arms, Shannon; Beardsley, Kelcey; Moore, Erin
    Thirteen schemes were developed for the Gresham City Hall project under the Sustainable Cities Initiative during the winter term of 2010. Each group took a unique approach to the challenges and opportunities presented. All were concerned with density, creating viable public space, displaying sustainable systems, creating a ‘democratic’ building that emphasized public participation and visual connection, and strengthening pedestrian and transit paths to and through the site. Projects that had carefully crafted outdoor space, iconic building forms, a range of large-scale sustainable strategies and effective plan layouts seemed to garner the most interest from reviewers, both those from the City of Gresham and professionals. While a new City Hall is still years away, all of the proposals offered vital points of view and a range of solutions to the constraints with new development.
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    Shaping Light: Sunshade Studies for Gresham City Hall and Rockwood/Civic Drive Light Rail Station Designs
    (University of Oregon, 2009) Meier, Sina; Cheng, Nancy
    This course was comprised of three major exercises: the design of a light modulating screen; the design of a sun shading device for Gresham City Hall’s west-facing facade; and the design of a light rail station at Civic Drive and Rockwood Station. This report describes in detail all three projects and includes samples of student work as well as findings and design recommendations.