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Northwest Housing Alternatives Campus Redevelopment
Submitting Company: Walsh Construction

Location: Milwaukie
Cost: $20,579,762
Start Date: October 2016
Completion Date: August 2019
Owner/Developer: Northwest Housing Alternatives
Architect: MWA Architects
engineers: KPFF, James G. Pierson
General Contractor: O鈥橬eill Walsh Community Builders
Subcontractors: A2 Fabrication, Academy Specialties, Advanced Electric, Allplay Systems, American Direct, American Heating, Anderson Heating, BD Aerial, Burgener鈥檚 Woodworking, Cascade Radon, Cedar Landscape Construction, Civic Construction, Classic Fences and Decks, Crown Fire Systems, Culver Glass, De-El Enterprises, Dennis鈥� 7 Dees Landscaping, Eagle Striping Services, East Wind Roofing and Sheet Metal, Eastside Paving, EuroLine Windows (USA), Floor Solutions, Fox Architectural Signs, G.R. Morgan Construction, Great Northwest Gutters, Haier US Appliance Solutions dba GE Appliances, Hillebrand Construction, Imagine Energy, Interior Exterior Specialist, JB Insulation, KONE, Kraft Masonry, Lanz Cabinet Shop, Lauzon Contracting, Lazer Site Surveying, LM Construction of Brush Prairie, Matson Siding, McDonald & Wetle, Metro Overhead Door, Northwest Masonry Restoration, O鈥橬eill Construction Group, Oregon Lumber, Plumbing Concepts, Point Monitor, Quality Cleaning Service, RDF Builders, Ross Recreation Equipment, Shields Painting, Sign Wizards, Standard TV & Appliance, Sterling-Pacific, TA Onchi, Topline Counters, Ultra Quiet Floors, Union Construction, VPI Quality Windows, WMX Construction

With an affordable housing portfolio throughout the state and the only shelter for whole families in Clackamas County, Northwest Housing Alternatives (NHA) was quickly outgrowing the three single-family homes where its offices and family shelter were housed for 30 years.

NHA partnered with MWA Architects to develop a master plan for its Milwaukie property, where the Annie Ross House, a six-bed family shelter and 10 affordable apartments, are located. In envisioning a new campus, NHA wanted its shelter and office buildings to have a greater degree of resiliency with stout mat foundations at each building.

As the operations hub, the office building is designed to Passive House standards and to achieve Net Zero energy use. It is the first such project in the city of Milwaukie, and features include smart lighting and a high-performance building envelope.

The campus provides a development and management office, an eight-unit family shelter, and 28 affordable multifamily units ranging between one and three bedrooms. Amenities include a community room, resident services and property management spaces, on-site parking, an outdoor terrace and a playground.

鈥淐areful consideration was given to the design of the shelter to balance community connections with privacy on this very tight site,鈥� according to Walsh Construction Co., which joined with O鈥橬eill Construction Group to form O鈥橬eill/Walsh Community Builders (OWCB). 鈥淭he family shelter was developed in conjunction with shelter management, and guided by trauma informed design. MWA was sensitive to the need to provide a temporary home for some of the community鈥檚 most vulnerable families within a protected environment.鈥�

The housing units address the public street with direct connection to ground-floor entries, and enclose the courtyard to create an intimate campus community. Simple material palettes such as brick, oko skin and cedar were selectively used to lend a sense of quiet to the overall campus. An atrium and vaulted ceilings inside the office allow for an open space, natural daylighting and visual connection to the staff working on each level.

The site was very tight and the team wanted the individual units to have their own sense of entry rather than shared breezeways. Due to the proximity of the new fence line with multiple neighbors鈥� properties, a fairly extensive amount of planning and communication with neighbors was required. Despite the challenges of the sloping site and close proximity of neighbors, OWCB delivered the project ahead of schedule and exceeded COBID (MWESB) goals by attaining 31 percent participation.