Dairy Apartments

Blending industrial past with active city living.

Dairy Apartments

Portland, Oregon
235,000 SF
In Construction

Client Notes
Develop a site previously housing the Sunshine Dairy Foods supplier into an urban mixed-use and residential building with consideration for automotive, pedestrian, bicycle, and future mass-transit traffic, as the site is an iconic marker within the City of Portland and effectively a gateway to the Kerns Neighborhood.

Designer Notes
Working within an eclectic and evolving neighborhood, Dairy Apartments reinforces unique neighborhood character within a modern building of the Kern Neighborhood’s future, balancing active amenity space with ground floor residential design along a busy transit street. The simple building form is bent and rounded, reinforcing the natural and historical character of the past by evoking the natural forces that formed the adjacent Sullivan’s Gulch while honoring the rounded corners of the existing art deco and Streamline Moderne buildings of the neighborhood.

The resulting design includes two 7-story housing bars on a full-block, 2-story podium arranging ground-floor residential and amenity spaces around a central private courtyard.

People

Lâle Ceylan / Ali Gens / Kevin Mulvaney / Marissa Sant / Keri Woltz

David Keltner, Design Principal
Chris Hodney, Design and Interiors Lead
Matt Sugarbaker, Project Manager