"This mixed-use structure fits snugly onto the street it's named for. The ground-floor storefront Capitola Coffee complements popular nearby destinations like Lovely's Fifty Pizza and the Mississippi Studios live music venue. The weathered-steel façade recalls the broader district's history of warehouses, shipbuilding and rail yards. Yet the Mississippi Building really comes alive when you proceed through a passageway to its inviting central courtyard."
"Entering the Mississippi Workshop, it's impossible to miss its mass timber construction, from the entry stairway to the walls and ceilings. There is noticeably no drywall anywhere. And the wood is thick, minimizing the need for insulation. Waechter Architecture was awarded a 2022 USDA/US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to study and promote the performance of mass timber, with this building as test case."
Waechter Architecture developed, designed and occupies the Mississippi Workshop in North Portland, a mixed-use building that integrates with nearby shops and music venues. The building’s weathered-steel façade evokes the district’s industrial past while a passage opens to an inviting central courtyard. The firm emphasizes orchestrated spatial journeys and frequent indoor-outdoor relationships, often centering projects around greenspaces such as Rockwood Village and Society Hotel Bingen. The Mississippi Workshop prominently exposes mass timber throughout, eliminates drywall, and uses thick wood to reduce insulation needs. The firm received a 2022 USDA/US Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant to study mass timber performance.
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