Outpost Hood River, Oregon Building, Key Development, Celilo Construction, US Architecture Photos
Outpost, Hood River, Oregon Building
June 25, 2020
Outpost on the Hood River Waterfront
Architects: Skylab Architecture and Open Studio Collective
Location: Hood River, Oregon, United States
Occupants: Ferment Brewing Company, CENTRL Office, Blue Collar Agency, Columbia Riverkeeper, Camp 1805 Distillery

Photos by Stephen Miller
Outpost on Hood River, Oregon
Outpost is a phased, hybrid structure merging recreation, retail and work environments to foster and reinforce a sense of community in a developing section of Hood River.

As part of the city?s new Waterfront Masterplan, Outpost will eventually become a 60,000-square-foot development?a neighborhood of buildings that will functionally connect the city with the Columbia River waterfront. The site, formerly home to an industrial wastewater treatment and processing facility, largely underutilized the waterfront but will now become a new paradigm for future development in the region.
Phase One is composed of two buildings, that together, result in a 30,000-square-foot complex that reimagines traditional mixes of spaces and how they are organized. Functioning as one large structure, each of the 15,000-square-foot, three-story buildings are aligned within the exterior envelope to form what appears to be a simple bar-shaped building.

The buildings, however, are separated like the hulls of a catamaran to create a central, share...