Urban Design Spring 2022Portland
Proposals for 
Portland’s Lloyd 
District
Samuel Wylie • Nico Larco • Gauri Rajbaidya
ARCH 584: Architectural Design

Spring 2022 Portland
Urban Design 
Proposals for Portland’s 
Lloyd District
Samuel Wylie
Report Author • College of Design
Nico Larco, AIA
Professor • College of Design
Gauri Rajbaidya, LEED AP
Principal, SERA Architects
Adjunct Instructor
COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Acknowledgements
The Lloyd District urban design studio course was a collaborative effort 
between students, stakeholders, and professionals. The projects featured 
in this report are richer and more sensitive because of the ongoing 
conversations between students and community collaborators. Students 
would like to thank the following parties for their time and generosity:
Stakeholders and Reviewers:
Tom Kilbane and Joey Shoemaker, Urban Renaissance Group
Troy Doss, City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Winta Yohannes, Albina Vision Trust
Keith Jones, Lloyd Community Association and Friends of the Green Loop 
Wade Lange, American Assets
Sofie Kvist and Laura Johnson, Gehl Associates
Martin Glastra von Loon, SERA Architects
Thomas Jansen, HR&A
Marta Hanson, Lloyd EcoDistrict
Lakayana Drury, Word is Bond
Kate Brooks, Kyle Anderson, Michelle Schulz, and Jerome Unterreiner, ZGF 
Will Smith, Waechter Architecture
This report represents original student work and recommendations 
prepared by students in the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City 
Year Program for the City of Portland. Text and images contained 
in this report may not be used without permission from the 
University of Oregon.
Contents
4 About SCI
4 About SCYP
5 Course Participants
6 Executive Summary
8 Introduction
10 Methodology
21 Student Projects
94 Conclusion
Spring 2022 Urban Design Proposals for Portland’s Lloyd District
About SCI
The Sustainable Cities Institute (SCI) 2. Our Urbanism Next Center, which
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SCI focuses on sustainability-based bicycle, and through our co-leadership 
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(EPIC-N), which is transferring SCYP 
1. Our Sustainable City Year Program to universities and communities 
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matches the resources of the University and community needs to produce 
with one Oregon community each innovative, tangible solutions for the 
year to help advance that community’s creation of a sustainable society.
sustainability goals; and
About SCYP
The Sustainable City Year Program learning courses to provide students 
(SCYP) is a year-long partnership with real-world projects to investigate. 
between SCI and a partner in Oregon, Students bring energy, enthusiasm, 
in which students and faculty in courses and innovative approaches to difficult, 
from across the university collaborate persistent problems. SCYP’s primary 
with a public entity on sustainability value derives from collaborations 
and livability projects. SCYP faculty that result in on-the-ground impact 
and students work in collaboration with and expanded conversations for a 
staff from the partner agency through community ready to transition to a 
a variety of studio projects and service- more sustainable and livable future.
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Course Participants
Course Participants
STEVEN CAGLE, Architecture Graduate 
SOFIA CHAVEZ, Architecture Graduate 
PHEBE DAVIS, Architecture Graduate 
BEN HEBERT, Architecture Graduate 
BEN JANES, Architecture Graduate 
CHELSEA KIGHT, Architecture Graduate 
NICK MEYER, Architecture Graduate 
SUMMER STEPHENS, Architecture Graduate 
IAN WATSON, Architecture Graduate 
SAMUEL WYLIE, Architecture Graduate
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Executive Summary
This architectural design studio focused on the Lloyd 
District, located in inner Northeast Portland and less than 
a mile from the University of Oregon’s White Stag campus. 
The Lloyd District is a low-density area defined by a large 
shopping mall constructed in the 1960s. Adjacent to the mall 
is Holladay Park, a superblock green space that has earned 
the reputation as a vacant and unsafe area. Commercial 
buildings, office towers, and parking lots largely define the 
remainder of the district. As the vibrancy of the Lloyd Center 
mall declined in recent years, the district’s future became a 
question mark for the City of Portland and landowners.
Students studied Portland’s Lloyd Several common themes unified 
Center as the site for their proposed students’ proposals. Foremost, 
interventions. “The Lloyd” is a storied residential density is exponentially 
and now-maligned district in inner increased as a response to the district’s 
northeast Portland that is primarily lack of residential typologies and to 
defined by a large shopping mall the housing crisis more broadly. Each 
surrounded by low-density commercial team also reestablished public spaces 
buildings. The mall’s vibrancy has that honor the magnetic character of 
declined in recent years and decayed the Lloyd Center mall before its decline. 
the district’s image. The studio These public realms often became a 
prompted students to investigate the mix of small commercial shops, green 
history, amenities, and opportunities of spaces, and recreational amenities. 
the district to respond to the immediate Finally, each proposal integrates 
and long-term needs of both the sustainable ideas by leveraging the 
surrounding area and city. Students district’s transit connectivity, ample 
collaborated with stakeholders and sidewalk space for bioswales, and 
community partners throughout the providing numerous greenspaces for 
term in order to understand the needs ecological networks to grow.
and constraints of the site.
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FIG. 1 
Lloyd Creative District: Connectivity Diagram
Ben Janes + Samuel Wylie
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Introduction
The current conditions of the Lloyd District present 
an enormous opportunity for Portland. A dramatic 
transformation is possible due to the small number of 
stakeholders that own a vast majority of the district. The 
district’s mix of single and superblocks enable the inclusion 
of large-scale amenities while maintaining a vibrant street 
life. The area is well-connected to TriMet’s MAX light rail, 
streetcar, and bus systems that can carry commuters 
downtown in fewer than 10 minutes.
The Lloyd Center mall also ideological framework for these 
maintains a cultural memory for many goals and grounded the projects in 
Portlanders. Generations of residents contemporary urban issues.
shopped for holiday gifts, ice skated, Although students proposed 
and socialized within its walls. Online hypothetical solutions for the 
reactions to the mall’s redevelopment Lloyd District, the constraints and 
indicate a large amount of good will opportunities they considered were 
toward the space and the hope it can real. Students collaborated with a 
once again be an identity-defining variety of stakeholders, including Urban 
place for the City. Renaissance Group, who currently 
The course focused on: 1) the tools owns the mall and several surrounding 
and processes of urban design, 2) blocks. Through conversations, informal 
an exploration of street design as it reviews, and rigorous analysis, students 
relates to the public realm, and 3) an developed schemes that imagined 
investigation of how the concepts of densely-populated and vibrant public 
identity and equity can shape space. spaces.  
Sustainable urbanism served as an 
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Introduction
As an imminent redevelopment members have suggested it is an 
project, several proposals for the Lloyd opportunity for housing. The project 
have already disseminated among the brief asked students to consider all 
Portland community. The Portland community voices in the development 
Diamond Project has proposed a Major of their proposal and for at least one 
League Baseball stadium on the current team to propose a baseball stadium.
mall site, while several community 
FIG. 2 
Lighting the Lloyd: Entertainment District
Steven Cagle + Nick Meyer
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Methodology
COURSE STRUCTURE
The ten-week studio required students that area “better” as an urban space. 
to work efficiently and intensely. Before Several common themes emerged 
developing their primary proposals from the proposals, such as increasing 
in teams, students first worked residential density, reconsidering 
individually on two contextual projects. automobile access on lower-traffic 
The first project divided the Lloyd streets, and thinking about spaces that 
District into smaller areas and asked catalyze activity over long periods of 
students to define what might make time.
FIG. 3 
Existing Uses Map
Sofia Chavez + Summer Stephens
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Methodology
The second introductory project • The mall’s ice-skating rink is a 
served as a site analysis and basis for beloved and character-defining 
students’ primary proposals. Students feature.
worked individually or in small groups • Historic proposals for the Lloyd 
to understand the constraints and District included a civic center, 
opportunities of the Lloyd District. entertainment facilities, and baseball 
These investigations were organized by stadium.
theme. Key takeaways include: • Perceptions of danger in the mall and 
adjacent Holladay Park are distorted 
Culture + Place by media coverage and general lack 
• The Lloyd Center mall has been an of activation in public space.
important place for generations • Although the district lacks 
of Portlanders and catalyzed large residential density, current Census 
public gatherings such as parades demographics are less diverse and 
and concerts. 50% lower than they were in 1950.
FIG. 4 
Lloyd Center timeline
Samuel Wylie
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FIG. 5 
Lloyd Center timeline
Samuel Wylie
Environment
• The Lloyd District is adjacent to reduce emissions through walkability/
natural amenities such as the transit connectivity.
Willamette River waterfront and • Spatial approaches to ecology should 
Sullivan Gulch Conservation Zone. be continuous “stepping stones” 
• The district generally lacks in street that support biodiversity rather than 
tree coverage and variety. entirely separate zones vegetation 
• Higher density development can areas.
decrease the impact of sprawl and 
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Methodology
FIG. 6 
Ecological Corridors
Steven Cagle
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Physical Site superblocks equal to 4-12 standard 
• The district is oversaturated with blocks.
parking: 1,900 street slots, 90+ • The district contains 222 buildings.
surface lots, and 18 garages. • There is a dearth of family resources 
• The development of higher-density and grocery stores, but the district 
buildings can offer views of the has many large common spaces and 
mountains, river, downtown, and west visitor-oriented amenities.
hills. • Critical “opportunity sites” include 
• The district offers a variety of block the mall, Holladay Park, Broadway/
structures: standard 200x200’ Weidler Street corridors, and blocks 
Portland blocks and several adjacent to the Green Loop.
FIG. 7 
Existing Parking Lot Map
Summer Stephens + Sofia Chavez
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Methodology
Transportation
• The district is well-connected to • The district is highly bikeable with 
Portland’s transit system and includes the proposed Green Loop system 
stops for three MAX lines, both passing though on west edge.
streetcar lines, and several bus lines. • Streets are generally wider than 
• The district is close to downtown and needed compared to the volume 
well-positioned to accommodate of traffic and provide few barriers 
Portlanders who work in the central between traffic and pedestrians.
city.
FIG. 8 
Average Daily Trips + 
Transit Stations
Chelsea Kight
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FIG. 9 
Average Daily Trips + 
Transit Stations
Chelsea Kight
Typologies
• A variety of medium and high-density create economic and experiential 
housing types are appropriate for the variety.
district. • A baseball stadium would fit within 
• Proposals should consider scales of the current mall footprint.
business and housing as a way to 
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Methodology
FIG. 10 
Commercial + Residential Typologies
Ben Hebert + Ben Janes
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FIG. 11 
Commercial + Residential Typologies
Ben Hebert + Ben Janes
Zoning • High-rise towers are appropriate 
• The district offers a high degree of and the City permits building up to 
flexibility in terms of density and 250’ or 350’ with a maximum height 
placement. bonus.
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FIG. 12 
Building Height Maps
Ian Watson + City of Portland
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PROJECT DEVELOPMENT Project content varied widely, but 
Students worked in teams of two to students structured their proposals 
develop a proposal for the remainder around several spatial and thematic 
of the term. The proposals received requirements. Common deliverables 
formal reviews during the fifth and include:
tenth weeks, but stakeholders and • An illustrative district plan and street 
collaborators frequently offered sections
informal feedback throughout the • A phasing plan that addresses 
design process. Additionally, several wealth-building and equity
stakeholders formally presented their • A focal area showing street design 
own research and perspectives on and tectonic relationships
the Lloyd District prior to the midterm 
review.
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Student Projects
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FIG. 13 
Illustrative Plan
HOMETOWN HEROES: strives to invest their success back into 
BEN HEBERT + IAN WATSON the community that supports them. 
This proposal imagines the This is evident in the varied spatial 
development of a Major League and residential scales of the project, 
Baseball stadium on the current site which allow entrepreneurs and families 
of the Lloyd Center mall. The stadium to grow without having to leave the 
provides a catalyst and attractor for neighborhood. These opportunities 
a pedestrian-oriented commercial help combat the negative perceptions 
district surrounded by denser housing of sports stadiums as a displacing force 
development. to lower-income residents. Instead of 
Ideas of eclecticism and community displacing residents, the stadium is a 
investment defined the spirit of the catalyst for Portlanders to build wealth 
proposal. A “hometown hero” is not and community. 
only a baseball player, but anyone who 
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FIG. 14 
Movement Diagram
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FIG. 15 
Phasing Diagram
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FIG. 16 
Program Diagram
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FIG. 17 
Analysis Diagram
Approach + Narrative
• Reconsiders baseball stadium as an • Imagines ballpark as keystone of 
amenity that can provide density, larger network of sports facilities 
variety, and equity that encourages and facilitates local 
• Defines “Hometown Hero” as anyone children to interact with and work 
who elevates their craft or art and toward major leagues
shares with their community
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FIG. 18 
Network Diagram
FIG. 19 
Network Diagram
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Primary Design Decisions
• Creates baseball stadium district on • Increases pedestrian infiltration 
current mall site through Lloyd toward ballpark with 
• Develops surrounding commercial pedestrian promenade
district, which includes recreation/ • Offers variety of commercial scales 
entertainment and is surrounded by to support business at several 
denser housing districts thresholds
FIG. 20 
Enlarged Plan
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FIG. 21 
7th Ave Section
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East Promenade Section
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Alley Section
FIG. 24 
Holladay Street Section
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West Promenade Section
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Secondary Decisions + Details • New development grows from core 
• Introduces development only where adjacent to ballpark
necessary and capitalizes on adaptive • Uses varied brick paving patterns to 
reuse define pedestrian promenade
FIG. 26 
Tectonic Plans
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FIG. 27 
Tectonic Plans
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LLOYD CREATIVE DISTRICT: BEN JANES + SAMUEL WYLIE
FIG. 28 
Illustrative Plan
This proposal reimagines the Lloyd social, and commercial networks.  
as an intergenerational creative arts Housing encloses the Lloyd and defines 
district that emphasizes inclusivity for subdistricts, ranging from high-density 
a broader segment of Portlanders. A towers near the Rose Quarter to living-
mixed-use civic center on the current above-the-shop typologies along the 
mall site centers the scheme, which Green Loop. Scales of commerce 
is adjacent to a plaza space and mirror these typologies and offer 
reprogrammed Holladay Park. On small pop-up spaces in the plaza and 
the western edge, the Green Loop public spaces, mid-sized shops along 
becomes a thickened pedestrian- commercial corridors, and larger tenant 
oriented zone that includes protected anchors along Multnomah Street and 
bicycle track and shared streets. Holladay Park. Civic programming 
Multnomah Street becomes a main includes an arts magnet school, maker 
commercial corridor that connects the spaces, and performance spaces 
Green Loop and civic center. that support a conversation between 
The proposal uses scales of students, creative professionals, and 
opportunity to define residential, residents.
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FIG. 29 
Parti Diagram
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FIG. 30 
Form/Use Diagram
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FIG. 31 
Stormwater Movement Diagram
Approach + Narrative opportunities to build wealth and 
• Creates intergenerational creative equity among a variety of users
spaces that supports Portlanders • Uses a variety of residential 
throughout their life typologies to densify targeted 
• Considers scale of business, areas to support large civic and 
residence, and recreation as commercial spaces
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FIG. 32 
Network Diagram: 
Creative Learning
FIG. 33 
Network Diagram: 
Creative Living
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Network Diagram: 
Creative Working
FIG. 35 
Scales of Opportunity 
Diagram: Housing
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FIG. 36 
Scales of Opportunity 
Diagram: Commerce
FIG. 37 
Scales of Opportunity 
Diagram: Open Space
FIG. 38 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Town 
Homes Double-Loaded
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FIG. 39 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Town 
Homes Single-Loaded
FIG. 40 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: “Living 
Above the Stop” 
Apartments | Bar
FIG. 41 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: “Living 
Above the Shop” 
Apartments | Block
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FIG. 42 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Mid-Rise 
Apartments | Infill
FIG. 43 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Mid-Rise 
Apartments| Bar
FIG. 44 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Mid-Rise 
Apartments | Block
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FIG. 45 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: Low-Rise 
Apartments | Walkup
FIG. 46 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: High-Rise 
Apartments | Point 
Tower
FIG. 47 
Proposed Residential 
Typologies: High-Rise 
Apartments | Slab Tower
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Primary Design Decisions
• Develops civic center at current mall create pedestrian and bike-oriented 
site, activate perimeter of Holladay zones
Park and reactivate it with new • Activates Multnomah Street with 
programming anchor commercial spaces and use it 
• Thickens Green Loop between 6th, to connect the Green Loop with the 
7th, Clackamas, and Wasco Streets to civic center
FIG. 48 
Enlarged Plan showing 
Holladay Park and Civic 
Plaza
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FIG. 49 
Section through Civic 
Plaza and Holladay Park
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FIG. 50 
Section through 
Multnomah Street and 
ice rink
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FIG. 51 
Enlarged Plan showing 
Green Loop pedestrian 
zone and Oil Field Park
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FIG. 52 
Section through 
Multnomah Street and 
Oil Field Park
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FIG. 53 
Section through 
residences on 
thickened Green Loop
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FIG. 54 
Perspective looking 
Southeast from Oil Field 
Park
Secondary Decisions + Details
• Uses initial phasing to increase the • Creates a bioswale system that uses 
number of families in the district, sculptural follies to visualize water 
then provide other typologies and movement and alludes to Ralph Lloyd 
amenities to build intergenerational and Portland’s industrial past
wealth
FIG. 55 
Phasing Diagram
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FIG. 56 
Phasing Diagram
FIG. 57 
Phasing Diagram
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FIG. 58 
Phasing Diagram
FIG. 59 
Phasing Diagram
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LLOYD FOR A NEW GENERATION: CHELSEA KIGHT + PHEBE DAVIS
FIG. 60 
Illustrative Plan
Lloyd for a New Generation responds ice rink in winter months. Adjacent to 
to a rigorous analysis of the Lloyd’s the park is a “parket,” or park-market, 
connectivity and traffic patterns. The which activates the streetscape and 
proposal places high-density housing provides low-barrier opportunities 
along the Green Loop and Grand and for commerce. Secondary axes along 
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevards in Hassalo Street and Broadway continue 
order to maximize transit options for to build on existing residential and 
residents. Multnomah and Halsey commercial amenities, respectively.
Streets become heavily-planted Transitional pavers that blend the 
greenways that provide east-west edges of streetscape and landscape 
connections across the district. reinforce the fluid and multi-seasonal 
The current mall site becomes an nature of the central entertainment 
entertainment district oriented toward district. The proposal carefully 
outdoor activities. The proposal considers activation throughout the day 
imagines a large concert venue and as well as throughout the year.
park at its heart, which doubles as an 
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FIG. 61 
Opportunities and 
Constraints Diagram
FIG. 62 
Major Accessways 
Diagram
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FIG. 63 
Use Diagram
FIG. 64 
Wealth Creation 
Diagram
Approach + Narrative
• Increases diversity through high- • Pays homage to the mall through 
density housing nods like a new ice rink
• Provides mixed-use, multi-season 
venue that invites a variety of 
Portlanders
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FIG. 65 
Enlarged plan showing 
entertainment park and 
“parket”
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FIG. 66 
Entertainment park 
activation during 
market
FIG. 67 
Entertainment park 
during ice skating
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FIG. 68 
Entertainment park 
during concert
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FIG. 69 
Section through 
Entertainment park and 
retail space
FIG. 70 
Section through Parket
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FIG. 71 
Enlarged Plan showing 
venue and beer garden
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FIG. 72 
Section through 
commercial street
FIG. 73 
Section through 
beer garden and 
entertainment park
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Primary Design Decisions • Places multi-season outdoor venue 
• Places high-density housing along on current mall site, reimagined as 
highly-connected streets and the outdoor theatre in warm months and 
Green Loop an ice rink in winter
• Creates an outdoor “park-market” 
that offers Portlanders low-barrier 
commercial opportunities
FIG. 74 
Tectonic plan showing 
paving/vegetation 
gradient
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FIG. 75 
Perspective showing 
park bench framed by 
gradient paving
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FIG. 76 
Seating area in 
entertainment park
FIG. 77 
Perspective showing 
shared street
Secondary Decisions + Details
• Uses transitional pavers to blend • Contributes to the momentum of 
the parket, park, and venue into a current development projects along 
continuous space Hassalo
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LIGHTING THE LLOYD: NICK MEYER + STEVEN CAGLE
FIG. 78 
Illustrative Plan
Lighting the Lloyd envisions a three- district acts as a renewal of this spirit 
node approach to activating public that engages the street rather than 
space. The current mall space becomes turns away from it. The extensive use 
an outdoor entertainment district of lighted pathways and play features 
with a redesigned Holladay Park as its helps to unify the district’s amenities, 
southern gateway. At the north end of serves as a wayfinding technique 
the entertainment district, Broadway after dark, and harmonizes with the 
and Weidler Streets support a denser nighttime entertainment offerings of 
commercial corridor. An existing the nearby Rose Quarter.
electric substation toward the west 
edge of the Lloyd District transforms Approach + Narrative
into a park supported by the Green • Recognizes Lloyd Center’s past as 
Loop and made friendly to pedestrians a place for gathering and seeks to 
by a woonerf-style shared street. recreate it for new generations of 
The scheme recognizes that the Portlanders
Lloyd Center harbors fond memories • Maintains and increase streets’ 
for many Portlanders who may now permeability and green space 
feel unsafe or disinterested in the • Uses light as an experiential and 
district. The proposed entertainment wayfinding tool
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FIG. 79 
Parti diagram
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FIG. 80 
Use diagram
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FIG. 81 
Transportation diagram
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FIG. 82 
Green Space diagram
Primary Design Decisions
• Primary design decisions • Create a park around existing 
• Replace mall experience with substation to support woonerf-style 
entertainment district shared streets
• Develop dense commercial district 
along Broadway and Weidler Streets 
north of the entertainment district
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FIG. 83 
Enlarged plan showing 
Entertainment District
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FIG. 84 
Section through 
Entertainment District
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FIG. 85 
Entertainment District 
Perspective
FIG. 86 
Enlarged plan showing 
Green Loop
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FIG. 87 
Section through Green 
Loop
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FIG. 88 
Perspective from Green 
Loop
FIG. 89 
Enlarged Plan showing 
Broadway and Weidler 
corridors
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FIG. 90 
Section through 
existing Broadway 
corridor
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FIG. 91 
Section through 
proposed Broadway 
corridor
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FIG. 92 
Section through 
existing Weidler 
corridor
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FIG. 93 
Section through 
proposed Weidler 
corridor
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FIG. 94 
Example housing typologies
Secondary Decisions + Details
• Secondary decisions + details • Restore Portland block size where 
• Use lighted pathways and playful possible
light features to engage and support 
pedestrians
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RESILIENCITY:  SUMMER EMIKO STEPHENS + SOFIA CHAVEZ
FIG. 95 
Illustrative Plan
Resiliencity imagines the Lloyd District children and elderly residents to access 
as five distinct yet symbiotic zones. greenspace and businesses without 
Each neighborhood showcases a crossing heavily-trafficked roads. The 
different resilience strategy that Opportunity Neighborhood likewise 
encompass environmental, social, and provides spaces for entrepreneurs to 
economic issues. Specifically, these test out business ideas without the 
zones address the need for socio- constraints of a large brick-and-mortar 
economic diversity through family- space. Resilience strategies unify 
oriented amenities (Intergenerational the district and include sustainable 
Neighborhood), high-density streetscape features, cooling stations, 
development with start-up spaces and childcare networks.
(Opportunities Neighborhood), and 
ample public space with diverse Approach + Narrative
offerings (Roseway Neighborhood). • Establish unique zones within the 
Neighborhood commercial strips and district that respond to different 
recreation areas round out the zones socio-economic issues
and help unify the district as a whole. • Unify the district with shared 
The proposal carefully considers strategies for environmental, social, 
access and experience for a and economic resilience
variety of users. For example, the • Imagine a variety of residents/users 
Intergenerational Neighborhood and respond to their needs in a 
includes a footpath network that allows holistic way
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FIG. 96 
Neighborhoods map
FIG. 97 
Resilience word map
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FIG. 98 
Social Resilience Strategies diagram
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FIG. 99 
Wealth Creation diagram
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FIG. 100 
Environmental Sustainability diagram
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FIG. 101 
Network map
Primary Design Decisions
• Develops five distinct within each neighborhood to support 
neighborhoods: Intergenerational, residents
Opportunity, Roseway, Commercial, • Unifies neighborhoods with resilience 
and Recreation amenities such as cooling stations, 
• Creates green space, commercial start-up spaces, childcare facilities, 
opportunities, and public venues and pedestrian pathways
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FIG. 102 
Enlarged Plan showing 
Intergenerational 
Neighborhood footpath 
network
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FIG. 103 
Section through 
intergenerational 
neighborhood
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“I love living here at these live-work residences. We had a hard time finding anything 
comparable in Portland. There is a recreational park next to us and school is only a 
couple minutes away, too! My son is learning to ride his bike in the footpaths on the 
weekends and taking a loop around the park. I’m so excited to see him ride on his 
own, theres a dedicated bikeway leading to the school that will make his trips safe and 
comfortable.
FIG. 104 
Intergenerational Neighborhood street story
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FIG. 105 
Enlarged Plan showing 
Roseway neighborhood 
market hall
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Student Projects
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FIG. 106 
Section through 
Roseway neighborhood
Spring 2022 Urban Design Proposals for Portland’s Lloyd District
FIG. 107 
Section through Opportunities neighborhood
Secondary Decisions + Details
• Significantly densifies the • Activates public space in Roseway 
district through mixed-use infill Neighborhood with market hall, local 
developments businesses, and community spaces
• Establishes educational campus in 
Intergenerational Neighborhood
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Student Projects
FIG. 108 
Street Stories
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FIG. 109 
Street Stories
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Student Projects
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FIG. 110 
Street Stories
Spring 2022 Urban Design Proposals for Portland’s Lloyd District
Conclusion
FIG. 111 
Perspective looking 
north through Holladay 
Park
Ben Janes + Samuel Wylie
The success of the proposals in this proposals as a response to the need for 
report rests on the current potential significant structural change within the 
of the Lloyd District as much as the City. All proposals accept the adoption 
students’ own ideas. The Lloyd’s of the Albina Vision master plan, and 
availability of land, transit connectivity, acknowledge that the future health 
and proximity to the City Center offer of Portland depends on social equity 
favorable conditions for a master and resilience. Students envision the 
plan that can strengthen Portland for Lloyd District as a symbiotic neighbor 
generations to come. Additionally, the to Albina through resources like low-
low residential population of the district barrier commercial opportunities, 
helps to alleviate fears of displacement ample public space, and the Broadway 
and rapid change. freeway cap.  
Students did not hesitate to look Finally, students recognize that the 
beyond the current conditions of the power of placemaking ultimately rests 
city for inspiration; the continuing with people who use the space. This 
impacts of climate change emphasize principle informed design decisions at 
the importance of environmental every scale: reprogramming Holladay 
resilience. High-density housing, urban Park, the reduction surface parking 
ecological networks, and walkable lots, and even the tectonics of a park 
neighborhoods are common to all bench. While the proposals cannot 
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socially-engineer a successful space, protect that spirit while offering a new 
they consider the needs of Portlanders vision for the district. The result was five 
through the lens of urban planning. distinct proposals that acknowledge 
The Lloyd Center has staying power the success and shortcomings of 
as a place of gathering and ritual in Lloyd’s past and offer a framework for a 
the City’s psyche. Students sought to resilient and equitable future.
FIG. 112 
District density, before 
and after
Summer Stephens + Sofia Chavez
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SCI Directors and Staff
Marc Schlossberg SCI Co-Director, and Professor of Planning,
 Public Policy and Management, 
 University of Oregon
Nico Larco SCI Co-Director, and Professor of Architecture,
 University of Oregon
Megan Banks SCYP Director, University of Oregon
Nat Kataoka Report Coordinator
Danielle Lewis Graphic Designer