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Design-Build Overview of Hillsboro’s Future Year-Round Shelter: A Compassionate Approach to Supportive Housing

The August Urban Design Panel invites Dave Otte, Principal and Owner of Holst Architecture to share more about the City of Hillsboro's future Year-Round shelter. In collaboration with Washington County and Metro, the shelter will provide adults with emergency shelter, wrap-around support, and connections to housing. The 76-bed facility is located on a City-acquired property at the corner of SW 17th Ave and TV Highway and offers immediate access to frequent service transit, employment, food, medical car, and other important services. The project programming and design has quickly advanced from detailed concepts in Summer 2024 to construction in January 2025, and expects to open in Winter 2025.  

Dave Otte will highlight the team's important considerations for site design, the thoughtful integration of indoor/outdoor transitions, and their compassionate approach to supportive housing programming that balances inviting community spaces with privacy for individuals. He will also share more about the teams design-build delivery method. Hillsboro's Year-Round Shelter serves as an important case study for the benefits of design-build and how it's implementation can translate to significant cost and schedule savings for a client, bring innovative quality and design, and ultimately a more collaborative effort to the design and construction phases of a project.