Hacker’s Post

Hacker has served the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon since 1986, completing numerous projects over the years including master plans and updates, new buildings, renovations and exhibit remodels, aligning like-minded missions and values of connecting visitors to landscape and the animals who inhabit it in a responsible and inclusive way. Guided by the Living Building Challenge, when designing an expansion to the High Desert Museum, the design team asked the overarching question: What if every single act of design and construction made the world a better place? https://lnkd.in/gSd9SK2n Photos: Chris Murray Productions #hackerarchitects #highdesertmuseum #museumdesign #zoodesign

Hacker was a proud sponsor of this year’s NOMA PDX PROJECT PIPELINE, an architecture design and justice summer camp! https://lnkd.in/eftkvHd "This year was bigger than ever with 47 middle school students joining us over three days at PCC Opportunity Center to learn about architecture, planning, and design. Students collaborated on a project in the commercial zone on NE 42nd Ave and NE Killingsworth to create places to live, learn, gather, grow food, recreate, and heal to support the current residents in the Cully neighborhood." The students’ work is now on display at OMSI through July 6th. Join us this Saturday, June 29th, from 1-3 PM for a special Open House event! Hacker's Keri Erwin volunteered in the summer camp this week (pictured here). #noma #nomapdx #projectpipeline #hackerarchitects #mentorship

Hacker understands that to create just spaces, we must engage in just processes for imagining, making, and maintaining those spaces. Our Community Centered Design Process holds our design accountable to consistent conversation with the people who will inhabit the spaces. During our Community Centered Design Process at Skagit Valley College Culinary Arts & Library Commons, we engaged over 50 students from 8 student organizations in more than 6 hours of collaborative making. Our Method of Engaging incorporated a process of collage-making, where we produced 10 distinct artifacts that represented the values, conditions, and aspirations of a diverse group of students and worked to uncover essential resonances and dissonances in the vision of the Culinary Arts & Library Commons. Hacker Associate Principal, Sarah Weber, NCIDQ, Sr. Interior Designer, is joining a panel at the 2024 American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibit in San Diego on July 1st to discuss "Designing Libraries with Diverse Communities in Mind Using Lenses of Neurodiversity and Process-Driven Approaches". Reflecting on her experience as the Lead Interior Designer at Skagit Valley College, Culinary Arts & Library Commons, she will discuss the Community Centered Design Process for engagement and the collaborative Method of Engaging approach that utilized collage artwork to open safe and comfortable dialogues with students, gaining input and understanding of their and their communities' needs. #alaac24 #americanlibraryassocation #hackerarchiects #librariesforall

Hacker Associate Principal, Sarah Weber, NCIDQ, will join a panel at the 2024 American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibit in San Diego on Monday, July 1st to discuss "Designing Libraries with Diverse Communities in Mind Using Lenses of Neurodiversity and Process-Driven Approaches" through a case study of our Skagit Valley College Culinary Arts & Library Commons. The panel session is sponsored by ALA - Core's Buildings for College and University Libraries (BCUL) Committee. https://lnkd.in/exdwe3fu #alaac24 #americanlibraryassocation #hackerarchiects #librariesforall

Hacker Associate, Marissa Sant, AIA, and Principal, Laura Klinger, AIA, have collaborated closely with the City of San Diego Public Library and San Diego County Libraries to coordinate a day of public library tours for the 2024 American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibit. Supported by the ALA Core - Architecture for Public Libraries Committee, Marissa, will lead a tour scheduled for Friday, June 28th. The tour will feature presentations by local architects and librarians showcasing three libraries: San Diego Central Library, Imperial Beach Library, and San Ysidro Library. By the end of the tour, participants will gain insights into designing libraries that are adaptable for future needs, designed with sustainable practices to achieve LEED Gold certification, and equipped with integrated outdoor spaces. https://lnkd.in/exdwe3fu #alaac24 #americanlibraryassocation #hackerarchiects #librariesforall

June is the Great Outdoors Month! Over the weekend some Hacker members participated in the Cascades Lakes Relay in Central Oregon. The team's total time was 32 hours + 48 minutes for 220 miles with an average pace of 9:06min/mile. The team placed 27/110 overall and 5th in the Corporate Division. Shoutout to the relay team: John Dalit, Lewis Williams, Leesa Cano, Kelsey Smith, Kirsten Heming + Scott Edwards Architecture (partner team) Swipe for some highlights from the Cascade Relays! https://lnkd.in/gqzE88Vf

Featured on School Construction News, "CU Boulder Goes for Gold with Revamp of Historic Building" | https://lnkd.in/gtt7eW7P "Designers Hacker Architects and Handprint Architecture have unveiled the design for the Hellems Arts and Sciences Building and Mary Rippon Theatre Capital Renewal Project at the University of Colorado Boulder. The project entails renovating the Depression-era Charles Klauder building located within the university’s Norlin Quadrangle National Historic District. The designers will be working with general contractor Adolfson and Peterson. The new venue, due to be completed in the summer of 2025, is aiming for LEED Gold Certification." Architecture / Interiors: Hacker + Handprint Architecture Construction: Rider Levett Bucknall MEP: Cator, Ruma & Associates Structural: Mitchell Martin Inc. Acoustics: K2 Audio, LLC Landscape Architect: Wenk Associates Lighting: AE Design Specifications: m.thrailkill.architect.llc RoterStock Consulting Theater Consultants: Theatre Projects Renderings: Hacker Words: Eric Althoff, M.A.

Bringing Joy to Brutalism: Hacker Architects and #HowardSWright Balfour Beatty US recently led the kick-off for the Salem Civic Center Renovation. Built in 1972, reviving and reimagining brutalist buildings of this era has become a specialty of our architecture firm. We are continually enhancing our skills in approaching large-scale, complex renovations that retain the positive aspects of this period of architecture while erasing some of the more oppressive and outdated features present in so many of them. Given our firm’s foundational values on sustainability, revitalizing structures is the most important decision we can make to preserve the embodied carbon – the challenge lies in creating light-filled, modern, and wholly inclusive spaces. Hacker projects of similar age and style to the Salem Civic Center include: [1+2] 1972 Salem Public Library Renovation (City of Salem) [3+4] 1961 Portland State University, Fariborz Maseeh Hall Renovation [5+6] 1968 Portland Community College Sylvania, Health Technology STEM Renovation https://lnkd.in/dBTVdTRK Photos: Lara Swimmer (SPL - 1), Pete Eckert (PSU - 3), Hacker #brutalistarchitecture #hackerarchitects #renovation #cityofsalem

Hacker Architects is delighted to continue our partnership with the City of Salem for the Salem Civic Center Renovation. This marks our third project with the City of Salem working alongside contractor #HowardSWright Balfour Beatty US and structural engineer KPFF Consulting Engineers. CBTWO Architects of Salem will be joining the team for this current endeavor. Our previous projects with the city include the renovation of the 1972 Salem Public Library and the construction of a new Salem Public Works Administration Building. With 40 years of complex renovation, restoration, and building repositioning experience, we are excited to bring our innovative workplace expertise to this 1972 brutalist-era building. We will uphold Salem’s mission to serve its community: “By Salem, For Salem.” Stay tuned for further updates on the Salem Civic Center. Photos: 1) historic Salem Civic Center atrium; 2) current exterior photo; 3) some members of the design-build team #hackerarchitects #cityofsalem #salemoregon #renovation #civiccenter

Kicking off the weekend at Lakeside at Black Butte Ranch. In designing the pool facility and bistro, Hacker set out to both honor and evolve the Northwest modern aesthetic of Black Butte Ranch. Because of the site’s stunning setting, it was essential that the building be secondary to the landscape — that the architecture serve as an aperture for the site, making connections to the land stronger and more immediate. https://lnkd.in/gJqQkZrt Architecture/Interiors: Hacker Construction: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company Landscape: Walker Macy MEP: PAE Structural: Madden & Baughman Engineering, Inc Civil: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis Inc. Lighting: LUMA Lighting Design Photos: Jeremy Bittermann #blackbutteranch #centraloregon #hospitalitydesign #hackerarchitects