At an event sponsored by the Portland Development Commission yesterday, GGLO's Dave Cutler presented the firm's concept proposal for the repurposing of Portland's Memorial Coliseum. GGLO's concept was one of 20 out of some 95 submissions that were selected to be exhibited to the Stakeholder's Advisory Committee and the general public.
GGLO's conceptual framework grew out of the desire to look beyond the building itself, and to explore how the building could benefit the entire City and region, both in the near and long term. Surprisingly perhaps, the design team was drawn to a scheme that would tranform the Coliseum into a colossal robotic parking garage, which would serve as a mode-transfer "mobility hub," thereby reducing the number of cars entering the Portland downtown core.
In the near term, transferring parking out of downtown would facilitiate densification without the burden and expense of providing parking, and would free up more urban land people-oriented uses. In the long term--say, half a century from now--when the need for cars as we now know them has vastly diminished, the scheme called for the return of the Coliseum to a civic use: The Memorial Car Museum, for which the robotic parking infrastructure would be used to store and display the museum "specimens."
For more information on GGLO's concept proposal, please see this Insight article. The proposal was also covered here, here, here, and here.
GGLO's conceptual framework grew out of the desire to look beyond the building itself, and to explore how the building could benefit the entire City and region, both in the near and long term. Surprisingly perhaps, the design team was drawn to a scheme that would tranform the Coliseum into a colossal robotic parking garage, which would serve as a mode-transfer "mobility hub," thereby reducing the number of cars entering the Portland downtown core.
In the near term, transferring parking out of downtown would facilitiate densification without the burden and expense of providing parking, and would free up more urban land people-oriented uses. In the long term--say, half a century from now--when the need for cars as we now know them has vastly diminished, the scheme called for the return of the Coliseum to a civic use: The Memorial Car Museum, for which the robotic parking infrastructure would be used to store and display the museum "specimens."
For more information on GGLO's concept proposal, please see this Insight article. The proposal was also covered here, here, here, and here.
