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Oregon’s population has boomed over the last 25 years, and the medical needs of the state have increased proportionately. Oregon Health and Science University, the state’s only health and research college, recently underwent an expansion to meet that demand. The university wanted the expansion to integrate seamlessly into the existing surrounding structures and landscape.
With limited site options available for expansion, a new site alongside the existing hospital was created on a steep hill by building underneath the hospital and next to a road. Inventive design and planning placed the hospital’s main street within a new, 14-story, 400,000-sq.- foot facility: the Peter O. Kohler Pavilion