Photograph

Agate Street Dormitory for the University of Oregon: Photographs of the buildings

01/12/1993

Exterior View

The entrance gate from the street into a very small public space leading to the four student apartment buildings.

Photographer:

David Soffa/C.E.S., Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color

Content of

Project

Agate Street Married Student Housing 1990 to 1993

Agate Street, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Residential, Realized , Construction completed in 1993

Client:

The University of Oregon - Mr. Chris Ramey, Campus Planner

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Hansjoachim Neis, James Maguire, Gary Black, Chuck Han

Contractor:

Center for Environmetal Structure, …

Project stages:

Layout on the site by clients and C.E.S. Design Development and Building Permit drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Student Housing including four buildings with twenty apartments for married student families; first phase of construction of the Amazon Plan.

References

Scientific Research

The Unfolding of Public Space and Gardens as Positive Space

Areas of focus:

Design and Building Process

Guiding idea:

Structure Preserving Transformations

Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped just as a room is shaped. It has a contained character, it is bounded by walls, fences, natural vegetation, enclosure of some kind. It looks into other positive spaces, some larger, some ...