The renovation project for this house achieves a new figure and volumetry by replacing the concrete tiles with a metallic roof, which conceives greater lightness and horizontality to the building. The spatial integration between indoors and outdoors was crucial to this solution, as well as the creation of orthogonal and uniform environments, possible through the elimination of excessive pre-existing angulations. Always aiming to frame and enhance the landscape. 

Originally consisting of an existing construction divided in two blocks, the project’s scope encompassed the creation of a space to house an art studio along with the artist’s archive, as well as social and leisure areas. The production studio was structured on the block towards the back, which fulfilled the necessary functions.

The pedestrian and bicycle bridge, which crosses the Willamette River slough, connects the downtown’s Riverfront Park and with 20 miles of Willamette River Greenway trails. The bridge of a total length of 154.1 m is formed by a continuous girder of five unequally long spans of lengths from 10.7 to 93.9 m. The first three spans are in a plan curve with a radius of 70 m, the remaining part of the structure is straight. The bridge deck is in a crest vertical curve. In the main span bridging the river slough, the deck is suspended on outwardly inclined arch ribs. This arch inclination not only horizontally stiffens the structure, but also opens the space, invite users to cross the river and gives the structure modern dynamic shape. 

The House Demonstration Unit is a research building of the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf as a contribution to the Solar Decathlon Europe and the living.lab NRW.The Solar Decathlon is considered the largest international building energy competition. For the 20th time, universities worldwide were asked to develop and implement ideas for sustainable building and living. In June 2022, the final took place for the first time in Germany, more precisely in Wuppertal. The interdisciplinary team MIMO united 18 professors, about 70 students, and ten staff members from all seven departments (Architecture, Design, Electrical and Information Engineering, Mechanical and Process Engineering, Media, Social and Cultural Sciences, and Economics) to compete in all competition categories of the competition.