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Oregon Harbor of Hope – Navigation Center
Submitting Companies: Deacon Construction, Opsis Architecture

Location: Portland
Cost: $3 million
Start Date: February 2019
Completion Date: July 2019
Owner/Developer: Oregon Harbor of Hope
Architect: Opsis Architecture
Engineer: PAE Consulting Engineers
Additional Engineering Firms: Froelich Consulting Engineers, GeoDesign, Humber Design Group
General Contractor: Deacon Construction
Submitting Companies: Deacon Construction, Opsis Architecture
Subcontractors: A Cut Above Concrete Cutting, Absco Alarms (Absco Solutions), Alico Drywall, Ambrose Glass, B & B Builders, B & T Striping & Curbing, Brix Paving Northwest, Building Material Specialties, Concrete Forming & Placing, Cornerstone Janitorial, EK Plumbing, Exodus Contracting, Farallon Consulting, Frahler Electric, HVAC Inc., Innova NW, Magnum Masonry, Metro Overhead Door, Mid Columbia Caulking, Mt. Hood Corporations, Northern Alliance Landscaping, Old Mill Cabinets & Millwork, Place Studio, Portable Welding and More, Portland Sheet Metal Works, Prestige Tile & Stone, Ramsay Signs, River City Environmental, River City Painting, Spectra Contract Flooring, TerraCalc Land Surveying, Triad Fire Protection, Trojan Wall Products, Westech Construction, Winterbrook Planning, Zochert Fence

The Oregon Harbor of Hope Navigation Center is a 9,500-square-foot safe haven, offering 100 residents a home for up to 90 days with 24-hour access, two daily meals, sleeping accommodations, showers and laundry facilities. Social service resources provide access to medical and mental health services, opportunities for job training and connections to permanent housing.

Realized through a public-private partnership, the center provides an affordable, efficient and replicable prototype for low-barrier transitional housing, the missing link between an overnight shelter and permanent placement in affordable housing.

The Navigation Center, located on a brownfield redevelopment site within the evolving industrial and residential waterfront in Northwest Portland, transforms a stark gravel parcel by capping the site with an elevated layer of clean fill and additional soil to create a landscaped oasis.

It is designed to enhance the public realm with a high level of transparency and layered gradient from active spaces to quiet areas that incorporates connections to nature with outdoor gathering and covered storage and smoking and pet relief areas.

One of the biggest challenges was developing an economical, temporary and relocatable facility. One of the solutions was to utilize a 鈥淪prung Structure,鈥� a large-scale fabric structure that provides basic shelter. With a clear structural modulation of arched aluminum bents, the Navigation Center echoes the structure of the adjacent Broadway Bridge. The system offers large, communal, free span space, fast construction assembly and the capability to be strategically modified.

Working within the constraints of the Sprung system was another challenge since it required expert craftsmanship to tailor walls, ceilings, storefront windows, a main entry vestibule and skylights to fit within a curved structure. The accomplishments provide an appealing internal environment while meeting the community鈥檚 high expectation for design quality and durability of construction materials.

Don Mazziotti, Harbor of Hope鈥檚 co-founder and president, noted that Deacon Construction and Opsis Architecture dealt with a variety of challenges to make the project economically feasible, providing leadership and innovative solutions to make the Navigation Center a 鈥渞esounding success.鈥�

鈥淭heir approach, resources and expertise contributed to overcoming the challenges and delivering the project on time and within budget,鈥� he said, adding the center shows how public and private resources can combine to have a positive impact on the community. 鈥淎s a result, we are planning to replicate this center and similar projects into other areas of Portland to help solve homelessness in our community.鈥�