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Lincoln Hall is a three-story former public high school built in 1911. It was adapted for use by Portland State University in 1953 and underwent renovations in 1966 and 1974. Located at the intersection of campus and downtown Portland, Lincoln Hall now houses the university’s departments of music and theater. Suffering from aging building systems, Lincoln Hall did not meet the demands of current music and theater pedagogies, such as finely tuned acoustic environments, maximum flexibility within the systems and proper sound isolation between spaces. Updating this historic building creates a tremendous asset to the physical fabric and architectural heritage of the campus. scroll for more |
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The transformation of 100-year old Lincoln Hall is an example of creative problem solving to achieve extraordinary results on a limited budget. Prior renovations were peeled back to reveal the original logic and beauty of the building. A non-traditional bracing system (Buckling-Restrained-Braced Frame) reduced the number of braces needed and saved a significant portion of the budget. The use of BRBs allowed the building’s original light wells to be reopened, inviting natural daylight to wash the interior spaces on each level.
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Additionally, because the new mechanical system required much less space than the original, old mechanical rooms were re-purposed as new programmatic space with no expansion of the building footprint. New spaces include a black box theater, dressing and green rooms, MIDI lab, faculty conference room, music practice rooms and two storage rooms The systems upgrades and building improvements garnered the project a LEED Platinum Certification. size location completion sustainability |
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