Portland State Magazine Spring 2014

SPRING 2014 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 7 PA R K B L O C K S Good design and good will ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS took on a design-build adventure in Haiti this past winter for “definitely the cutest and most appreciative clients in the world,” says Todd Ferry, PSU architecture faculty. The children of Montesinos Orphanage, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, were close at hand as students built dormitory overhangs they designed. Ferry (below) and Portland State colleague Sergio Palleroni led the project. For years, students and faculty from PSU and Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris have worked on designs for the orphanage, a school and the surrounded town. The smart, new overhangs provide seating and shade for the children and also channels water runoff from the area’s torrential rains to a bioswale—a future building project. 