32 99W at Dartmouth St.
Re d i s c o v e r ing L andbas e
Rediscovering Landbase City of Tigard 50-Year Redevelopment Plan University of Oregon, Portland Urban Architecture
Phase 0: Issues
automobile-driven disconnect
The City of Tigard recognizes that there are problems with the current corridor-based urban structure. They are pairing with that the world’s oil supply will reach
it’s peak in the near future, forcing citUniversity of Oregon to create soies to shift from a dependence on oil to a dependence on sustainable natural lutions. Rediscovering Landbase resources within it’s own community. is a The callresulting to dramatically rethink living pattern will be one of and cooperation. allow this the locality current living systemTowhich so shift to occur in the most natural and heavily depends on outside sourcbeneficial [to all living members of the community] process, lack of interdees for even the basicthe necessities of pendence between people and people, life.people and nature, nature and building will be addressed.
2.2 Transit Oriented Development
10 year phase Phase I: 10 years future
undam and revitalize Red Rock Creek, create connector paths, puchase and localize Costco, allow multi-family/multi-use
Existing Conditions
Phase I: 10 years future
The The 99W condition is a starpreexisting Red Rock Creek is in it’s tlingpresent, expanse ofadisconnections, di2009, series of ponds broken up by parking lots and roads. In this vision, fences and wasted resourcphase Red Rock Creek is revitalized. conditions arethe merely car-centric disconnect es. AThese bridge is built to replace portionan excessive, inefficient divisions expression of the insustainability of Dartmouth St. that breaks the creekof [a view from this instance is in the the current civilized system. Asthird the photo on the left] allowing for the natural economic system of extraction flow of water and living organisms. and 25 year phase centralized everything collapses, Phase II: 25 years future replace parking with gardens, create pedestrian paths, To combat thein congestion of thebenefit flow people living cities will of people, local access roads are built, establish local markets by becoming members of the encircling theactive the 99W / Dartmouth intersection. These are 1-2 lane roadsis natural system on which the city with parallel parking acting as a buffer The resulting human living lack of resource pooling built. between car traffic and pedestrian traffic. pattern will be one of locality and inaccessible / unused resources The regional food and retail warehouse, cooperation. To allow this shift to Costco, is a landmark in the area, and occur in the most natural and benExisting Conditions will use it’s popularity to engage the eficial [to all inliving members of the community the ways of the future by The 99W condition is a startling expanse adding a level of structured parking, community] process, the lack of of disconnections, divisions, fences and greening the roof, and buying and selling between people unused and unappreciated resources. interdependence goods from local sources. These conditions are merely an expres-and people, people and nature, na- Phase III: 50 years future 50 year phase sion of the insustainability of nature our nation’s Public green spaces appear in the resi- paths web, nature flourishes, people live/exchange locally incarcerated ture and building will be addressed. dential neighborhood, along the corridor living patterns. It has been predicted FENCES BETWEEN BUILDINGS
INACCESIBLE NATURE
FENCES BETWEEN BUILDINGS
INACCESIBLE NATURE
and expand from the existing forest.