Roosevelt High School, Oregon Building Renovation and Expansion, American Architecture, Images
Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon
Building Renovation and Expansion in North America ? design by Bassetti Architects
Jul 3, 2019
Roosevelt High School
Design: Bassetti Architects
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Roosevelt High School is a diverse, historically rich campus located in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. Home to approximately 1,700 students, renovation and expansion of the campus was undertaken in three phases to ensure that the school remained in operation throughout the project. Encompassing buildings designed nearly a century ago, the revitalized 17-acre campus consists of the original school building (a 1921 brick masonry structure), a 1930s auditorium, and three new additions. In total, the project encompassed 95,985-square-feet of building rehabilitation, 138,956-square-feet of new construction, and the removal of 97,550-square-feet of outmoded structures.
The school?s design was driven by a rigorous master planning process, in conjunction with a strong set of guiding principles that were the backbone for testing ideas and options. The principle idea that emerged from synthesizing these options was the need to link and connect the dispersed elements of the school through a distributed commons concept that infills the core and creates a central heart to campus.

Another important element to the design was thoroughly engaging existing histori...