Good design enhances the human experience and encourages academic and personal growth. For most students, a college campus is a life changing and immersive experience. Our role as architects is to design environments that encourage the best possible experience.

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Design Principles

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Enhance the Campus Environment

Our buildings are designed to sensitively fit within their surroundings, and create a strong community image through the use of beautiful, durable materials. We take cues from existing buildings and the environment to enhance the distinct sense of place on campus.

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Foster Health and Wellness

For students to perform well academically, their mental and physical health also needs to be supported. Campus buildings need to be welcoming, inclusive, and comfortable. We utilize healthy building strategies to maximize daylight, provide temperature control, promote accessibility, and ensure overall occupant comfort.

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Engage the Campus Community

The best way to understand the needs of the student population and staff is to meet with them and ask questions. We engage diverse focus groups and concentrate on listening well and translating identified needs and wishes into the project’s design.

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Support Modern Learning

Our priority is to create flexible learning spaces that support modern technology. At the same time, we recognize that learning is now more hands-on than ever. For career technical or occupational education spaces, we design simulated career environments to provide experiential learning.

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Deliver Timeless, Flexible Designs

Buildings must look and perform as well after 50 years as they do on opening day. This guides our thinking in striving for simplicity, elegance, and the use of enduring, low maintenance systems and materials.

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Higher Education Team

Our team has years of experience in designing higher education environments for public and private institutions. Whether new builds or renovations, we bring the latest thinking on everything from new arrangements that encourage active learning to new sustainability techniques for net zero energy use.

  • Eric Talbot

    Associate Principal
  • Ian Mickleson

    Associate
  • Jeff Bringenberg

    Project Manager

Our Clients

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University of Portland
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Eastern Oregon University
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