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When an office space is struggling for natural light, sometimes it’s best to leave out the eggshell-white drywall.

At least that’s what the crew at is planning for a 1,500-square-foot space it is designing for . Located on the ground floor of the Pearl District’s Maytag Building at Northwest Eleventh Avenue and Hoyt Street, the space will be the new office headquarters for the university’s master’s writing program.

With a long, narrow floor plan that constricts sunlight in the space, principal architect Richard Brown said the team will build the office walls with clear and translucent laminated glass partitions that glow when they absorb light.

鈥淚 think it’s going to take advantage of the minimum light that’s there and amplify it and push it back into the space,鈥� he said.

Brown said the space will be used聽primarily聽as an administrative office for the university writing program, but it will also be set up to host gatherings and meetings. The space will also serve as the Portland office for the university’s president, Lesley Hallick.

He said one nod to the office’s creative intentions will be found in the ramp leading into the building, where they are considering sandwiching writing samples, photographs and pieces of art between two sheets of glass.

鈥�(The university) was looking for a space that was more sophisticated, where board members would be comfortable, but also would reflect the artistic nature of the study that goes on,鈥� Brown said.

The project is currently out to bid and Brown said he hopes to begin construction in February.