Integrating Habitats. An award celebration. Part 1: Intros

The challenge

Growing populations. Rapid development. Increased pressure on natural areas, clean rivers, streams and valuable fish and wildlife habitat. How can we achieve balance between development and conservation? What are the best ways to accommodate growth while protecting the region's environment and quality of life?

Our approach

Blend. Balance. Integrate. Use long-term vision, collaborative effort and holistic values to guide development that protects clean water and honors co-existence. Design for this generation and those to come. Design the built environment with nature in mind.

The design competition

Integrating Habitats will challenge entrants to work across disciplines in collaborative teams to create elegant and functional designs for conceptualized sites typical of the Portland metropolitan region. The competition's challenge is to create successful and innovative site designs that blend open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development.

The design categories

neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface
mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface
commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest habitat interface
Participants

Students and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, including landscape architecture, architecture, planning, urban design, stormwater management, engineering, water quality, ecology, wildlife biology and development, are encouraged to participate.

Outstanding features

A world-renowned jury will select the very best designs and announce them at an award event. In addition, citizens and communities will select their favorite designs via the People's Choice Awards, a web-based gallery voting system. The Design Guide, a publication featuring the top choices, will be distributed throughout the region and beyond to promote projects that feature nature-friendly development and serve as a definitive resource for the design and development communities on solutions to protecting and restoring nature in new and re-developments.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Metro
• Nature
• in
• Neighborhoods
• Integrating
• Habitats
• Portland
• Oregon
• Design
• Competition