Science education resource center MARIAH MARSHALL - TERMINAL STUDIO - WINTER II - INSTRUCTORS NANCY CHENG & SUENN HO 2ND FLOOR GROUND FLOOR BUILDING PLANS 1” = 30’ CURRENT URBAN CONDITIONS INFUSED WITH GREEN STREETS RECONNECTS EAST SIDE TO RIVER SITE MODEL DIAGRAM 3RD FLOOR URBAN STRATEGY SITE QUALITIES ACTIVE QUIET Project Description This thesis project aims to discover the possibili- ties of a riverfront lot at the corner of SE Water Avenue and SE Clay Street in Portland’s east side industrial district directly north of the OMSI Campus. The site’s dominating characteristic are monolithic columns punctuating the ground plane and soaring roadways framing the sky. The program I have select- ed for this site has the potential to bring people of all ages every day of the week to a site that once lent its views to cars only. The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) is an existing program within OMSI’s educational programming. It serves k-12 public, private and home school educators. The current facility is only one room but contains the type of materials and resources that could be expanded into their own unique facilities. This new SERC will be a dedicated facility for educators in need of professional devel- opment courses to home school students and their parents wanting to check out a kit of scientific tools to do at home experiments. The site also culminates the re-design of SE Clay street and the massing of the buildings are oriented to direct the visitor to the river visually and physically. A science and research oriented facility grants an opportunity to dedicate the landscape to didactic uses: providing testing grounds for water treatment, a living machine and a variety of other uses that could directly educate the public and create a more beautiful environment beneath a structure that is not traditionally viewed as habitable. CURRENT SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER ONE SMALL ROOM WITH A MULTITUDE OF FUNCTIONS LIBRARY NASA RESOURCE COLLECTION VIDEO CONFERENCE FACILITY HOLDS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS COMPUTER STATION FOR ONLINE RESEARCH PRINT CENTER CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES GENERAL CONFERENCE ROOM FOR ALL OMSI STAFF ONE VOLUNTEER EDUCATOR OPENS SERC ONCE A WEEK SUPPLAMENTAL SPACES WITHIN OMSI CLASSROOM LABS AUDITORIUM SITE PLAN 1”=25’ N large demonstration space lab lab lab lab mech. lunch room lobby main library stacks check-out digital workstations library support & offices study rooms access to esplanade lecture hall lobby main circulation lecture hall classroom classroom classroom classroom restrooms seminar room offices terrace link library restrooms restrooms access to esplanade