Architects:Waechter Architecture

Area :19322 ft²

Year :2019

Photographs :Jeremy Bittermann, Shawn Records

Manufacturers :  Vectorworks, Duravit, Andersen Windows & Doors, Caesarstone, Euro-American Design, Kuzco Lighting, Miller, RP Lighting, Regal & Emser, Schlange, VPI Quality WindowsVectorworks

Lead Architects :Waechter Architecture

Civil Engineering :KPFF

Structural Engineering :Grummel Engineering

Design Team : Emily Kappes, Alexis Kurland, Ben Waechter

Clients : Project^

Landscape : Lango Hansen

Collaborators : Yorke & Curtis

City : Portland

Country : United States

A multi-family development in Northeast Portland, Origami builds on Waechter Architecture's previous single-family work, while introducing a new dilemma of scale.

Taking up the street front of one full city block, the project required Waechter Architecture to find balance between the individual and the whole. In response, their concept harkened back to the process of origami, in which a single sheet of paper can be manipulated through folding to produce more complex figures in its form and play of light and shadows.