Outpost: Hybrid Structure

Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, Middle Density, Project, Skylab Architecture

Circulation, Community, Cross Laminated Wood, Efficiency, Future development, Leisure, Mixed uses, Post-industrial Landscape, Project, Sustainability, Timber, USA, User’s experience, Volume, Waterfront, Working Space

Photography: Stephen Miller

Outpost is a phased, hybrid structure merging recreation, retail and work environments to foster and reinforce a sense of community in a developing section of Hood River. As part of the city’s new Waterfront Masterplan, Outpost will eventually become a 60,000-square-foot development – a neighborhood of buildings that will functionally connect the city with the Columbia River waterfront. The site, formerly home to an industrial wastewater treatment and processing facility, largely underutilized the waterfront but will now become a new paradigm for future development in the region.