Portland State Magazine Fall 2019

4 FOR THE sixth year in a row, the summer Pickathon music festival in Happy Valley, Oregon, featured a performance venue designed and built by School of Architecture students from reused materials. This year’s rendition of the Treeline Stage utilized 160 wooden apple-harvesting bins turned into “an orchard of towering trees”—reaching 40 feet high at the tallest point. The sprawling site design incorporated space for audio equipment, a backstage green room, and space for food vendors and seating. Immediately afterward, the stage was dismantled and the apple bins were returned to service just in time for the late summer apple harvest, leaving no waste. Unique stage presence PARK BLOCKS