Architecture Studio in GreshamPortland, OR

How we work in Gresham

• Residential & Housing Architecture

  Housing along Powell Valley or Kelly Creek is still residential architecture: multifamily or a custom home, taken to permit-ready drawings. The useful conversation is which fee model matches a stable program versus a still-moving one, and how many design iterations live inside the fee before extra hours start. We put that in the proposal so a Gresham quote can sit beside a Portland one without translation.

• Hospitality Architecture

  Hospitality architecture on the east side is rooms, service, and interiors under real use, not a resort diagram. Construction documents have to describe that wear. Keeping hospitality and interiors in one team means the public room and the support rooms are drawn together, which is how a guest actually moves through the building.

• Master Planning & Urban Design

  Master planning for Rockwood or the Mount Hood Corridor is urban design at the scale of streets and sites, not a downtown superblock. A site plan that shows housing, movement, and gathering in one drawing is the document neighbors and reviewers can argue with honestly. We would rather have that argument early than decorate a building that sits wrong on the land.

• Workplace Architecture

  Workplace interiors in Centennial or Wilkes East still need construction documents a builder can price. If the client already has a floor-plan concept, the work is translation into a coordinated set, not a blank-page vision exercise. Plans-only is available when the owner is ready to carry field coordination; that choice is named, not assumed.

• Retail Architecture

  Retail architecture here is permit-ready drawings for shops people actually enter from the sidewalk. Interiors are part of that set because a stockroom and a sales floor that fight each other will not be saved by a nicer elevation. We treat the shop as its own problem, even when it sits under housing.

• Mixed-Use Development Design

  Mixed-use in Gresham has to belong to the neighborhood it lands in. Urban design is the tool: who uses the ground floor, how housing sits above, how the block meets Rockwood or Powell Valley rather than a generic mixed-use template. That is planning work held in the same practice as the building drawings.

• Institutional Architecture

  Institutional architecture still runs schematic design into construction documents, whether the program is civic, educational, or community. Gresham clients should ask what “schematic” includes, because an under-drawn first phase is how later hourly estimates swell. We would rather define the gate than defend a vague hour count after the fact.

• Senior Living Design

  Senior living design is housing and interiors measured against daily routine, not a brochure of amenities. On east-metro sites the building has to read as part of the neighborhood, not a campus dropped on a corridor. We start from how people live in the rooms, then draw the envelope around that.

• Recreation Facility Design

  Recreation work is a site plan problem as much as a building problem: arrival, outdoor program, and the structure that supports both. Construction documents should let a contractor price that outdoor relationship. A gym that ignores the lot is only half a project, even if the floor plan is tidy.

• Adaptive Reuse Architecture

  Adaptive reuse of an existing Gresham building changes the sequence: survey what is there, decide what renovation can honestly keep, then draw. It is slower at the front than new construction and cheaper in wasted ideas later. A stamp on a concept that never met the existing structure is not a service we will pretend to offer.

• Interior Architecture

  Interior architecture across housing, workplace, hospitality, and retail is how Gresham rooms get used after opening day. We keep it inside the same team as the building so design development does not split into an architect’s set and a decorator’s leftover. Finish and layout belong in the drawings that go to permit.

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