Sideyard | Skylab

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Sideyard | Skylab

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  • Project Name: Sideyard
  • Practice: Skylab
  • Products: Interstate Brick , Georgia Pacific Dens Element , Tech Lighting , Arcadia Storefront and Curtain Wall , DR Johnson CLT panels , glulam members , Freres mass plywood panels
  • Project Location: Portland
  • Country: USA
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Skylab
  • Design Team: Jeff Kovel, Design Director, Brent Grubb, Project Manager, Jill Asselineau, Project Director, Nathan Cox, Project Architect, Jennifer Martin, Project Architec, Tony Tranquilli, Project Designer, Andrew Borell, Project Designer, Stephen Miller, Visualizer
  • Engineering: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc
  • Structural Consultants: catena engineers
  • MEP Consultants: PAE
  • Landscape Consultants: Shapiro Didway
  • Contractors: Anderson Construction
  • Photo Credits: Stephen Miller
  • Others: Electrical Engineer: Evans Engineering and Consulting, Plumbing: Caliber Plumbing and Mechanical, Specifications: JLC Architectural Consulting
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Excerpt: Sideyard, designed by Skylab Architecture, is a working-class building aimed at public transportation connectivity, pedestrian openness, and bicycle priority access. This building program will reintegrate a pedestrian stair down from the Burnside Bridge level to third avenue akin to the original stairs that previously existed. The development helps to strengthen the connection between the Eastside community and the westside downtown urban core.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] A leftover 9,000-square-foot berm space was created when the City of Portland built the new one-way Couch Street couplet reconnecting the roadway to the Burnside Bridge. Sideyard was designed to fit this urban remnant property as a working-class building aimed at public transportation connectivity, pedestrian openness, and bicycle priority access. It is positioned centrally in the new Eastside community envisioned by the Burnside Bridgehead Framework plan. The ground floor will be activated by storefront along third avenue and work space above. This building program will reintegrate a pedestrian stair down from the Burnside Bridge level to third avenue akin to the original stairs that previously existed. This wedge building will feature a new CLT structural system with open ground level commuter-oriented retail environments for daily guests and tenants. The workspace above will be wrapped in brick masonry with the building acting as an anchor for the Burnside Bridge and a gateway to the Eastside community.

Sideyard | Skylab
© Skylab
Sideyard | Skylab
© Skylab
Sideyard | Skylab
© Skylab

This Central Eastside site is located at the geographic heart of the City of Portland and at the edge of the daily commuter flow of automobiles, bikes and pedestrians. The development helps to strengthen the connection between the Eastside community and the westside downtown urban core. Also located in the neighborhood is the world-renowned Burnside Skatepark, constructed on an adjacent leftover city space beneath the Burnside Bridge and leased to the skate community. The building development team has additionally leased a small space under the bridge adjacent to Sideyard and the skate park for food carts. This will extend the Third Avenue ground level retail environment into the forgotten and unused urban spaces full of creative potential.

Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller
Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller
Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller
Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller

Since 1996, Key has been building uncommon places primarily in Bend, Hood River and Portland, Oregon. With every project they strive for a workable paradox: to fit into the surroundings while also standing out.  Creating whole new opportunities for residents and businesses without unnecessarily disrupting historic precedents.

Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller
Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller
Sideyard | Skylab
© Stephen Miller

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